baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2267570-A (GB)
Title: Superconducting MRI magnet using a cryocooler
Inventor: GOOD JEREMY ANDREW
IPC: A61B5/055
Filed: 1992-04-16
Abstract: A superconducting magnet for use with a magnetic resonance imaging system comprising a non-metallic closed loop former, a coil winding around the former of a material which is superconducting at low temperatures, preferably in the range 10-12K, a vacuum vessel containing the former and also of a closed-loop shape to define a passage through the magnet for receipt of objects to be investigated by nuclear magnetic resonance, electrical connections for the coil winding, a thermal shield within the vacuum vessel and around the former, and refrigeration means operatively connected to the coil winding and the thermal shield.
Patent GB-2256916-A (GB)
Title: Combined vehicle steering wheel grip and switch pad, eg for disabled driver.
Inventor: ROWE ROBERT KENT
IPC: B60Q1/00
Filed: 1992-06-22
Abstract: The switch pad 2 is mounted on top of the grip 3 which is rotatably fitted to the rim 4a of the steering wheel 4. The switch pad 2 carries touch-sensitive switches 5-12 for operating the indicators, lights. wash/wipe and horn via a wireless link, eg using an infra-red transmitter 13. The receiver may be mounted above the steering wheel. A disabled driver can thus steer by holding the grip 3 with the fingers while operating the switches with the thumb. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2268483-A (GB)
Title: Dispenser with selectively locatable partitions
Inventor: WATTS HOWARD JOHN
IPC: A47F1/08
Filed: 1992-07-09
Abstract: A dispenser for articles such as shuttlecocks, swimming goggles, swimming arm bands and squash balls comprises a housing (1) and a plurality of demountable substantially planar partition members (14, 18, 20) which can be selectively located and supported within the housing to divide the internal volume thereof into a plurality of compartments in which the articles can be retained in columns. The housing is defined by opposed front and rear walls (3, 4) and opposed end walls (5, 6) and is provided with spaced notches (7, 13, 17) for locating the partition members. The partition members are provided with hooks and pins adapted to cooperate with the notches of the housing. The housing is provided with a bottom member (8) which supports the columns of articles and has an upper surface which is inclined downwardly towards a dispensing aperture (9) defined between the bottom member (8) and the lower edge (10) of the front wall (3) of the housing. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2265323-A (GB)
Title: Adhesive spreading machines
Inventor: CASAROTTO ALFONSO
IPC: B29L7/00
Filed: 1992-11-18
Abstract: In machines for the coupling of films with solvent-free adhesives, a spreading station (1), which comprises a pair of batching rollers (3), a spreading roller (5) and an intermediate roller (4) arranged in such a way that the plane containing the axis of the intermediate roller (4) and the axis of the batching roller (3a) in contact with the intermediate roller (4), forms an angle  alpha  comprised between 80 degrees and 100 degrees with the plane containing the axis of the intermediate roller (4) and the axis of the spreading roller (5). Also disclosed are means to vary micrometrically the relative positions of the batching rollers (3) in reciprocal approaching and distancing, comprising a differential screw (10) and a reduction gear (11). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-930993-A (GB)
IPC: C08G65/48
Abstract: 930,993. Polyphenylene ethers. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. June 24, 1959 [June 24, 1958], No. 19527/59. Class 2(5) [Also in Group IV(b)] The invention comprises polyphenylene ethers having a repeating structural unit of the formula wherein n is at least 100, Q is hydrogen, an aliphatic hydrocarbon radical free of a tertiary α-carbon atom or an aliphatic halohydrocarbon radical having at least two carbon atoms and being free of a tertiary α-carbon atom, and Q<SP>1</SP> and each Q<SP>11</SP> are as Q or halogen, aryl hydrocarbon radicals, haloaryl radicals, hydrocarbonoxy radicals having at least two carbon atoms and being free of an aliphatic tertiary α-carbon atom and halohydrocarbonoxy radicals having at least two carbon atoms and being free of an aliphatic tertiary α-carbon atom; and a process of oxidizing phenols, to give these and other polymers, comprising reacting oxygen-in the presence of a tertiary amine and a cuprous salt soluble in the tertiary amine and capable of existing in the cupric state-with a phenol having the structural formula wherein X is hydrogen, chlorine, bromine or iodine, R is hydrogen, a hydrocarbon radical, a halohydrocarbon radical having at least two carbon atoms, a hydrocarbonoxy radical or a halohydrocarbonoxy radical having at least two carbon atoms, and R<SP>11</SP> and each R<SP>1</SP> are the same as R or additionally halogen. In the Examples, (1)-(8) high molecular weight polymers are prepared from 2,6-dimethyl phenol using various catalyst combinations and solvent systems; (9) other 2,6- and 2,4-disubstituted phenols are used as starting materials; (10) insoluble modifiers, e.g. aluminium oxide, silica, activated carbon blacks, magnesium silicate, platinum black, vanadium pentoxide and other specified metals and metal oxides (including also molybdic acid) are included in the reaction mixture; (11) soluble modifiers, e.g. picric acid, nitrobenzene, trinitrobenzene, m-dinitrobenzene, p-nitrophenol, trinitro-m-cresol, trinitroresorcinol and trinitrofluorenone are included in the reaction mixture; (12) thiourea is included in the reaction mixture to modify the colour of the product (thiourea derivatives and related compounds, e.g. thiosemicarbazide, thioacetamide and thiobarbituric acid, as well as hydrogen sulphide are also specified for this purpose); (13) quinones and hydroquinones are included in the reaction mixture to impart colour to the product; and (14) phenols with more than one reactive position are used as starting materials. Other additives specified include anion-exchange resins, peroxide deactivators (numerous metals as well as their oxides and salts specified, as well as selenium and silicon) and fillers, e.g. wood flour and diatomaceous earth. The polymers may also be dissolved in a suitable solvent to give film-forming compositions. Numerous uses and applications are specified. Specification 930,992 is referred to.
Patent GB-2278900-A (GB)
Title: Hydraulic trailer brake
Inventor: HOLMES GORDON
IPC: B60T7/20
Filed: 1993-06-07
Abstract: Upon trailer (or caravan) over-run, relative movement of the two parts 25, 26 of a hydraulically damped coupling will pivot arm 28 and operate the master-cylinder of the trailer's hydraulic brake circuit and force brake pads 13, 14 into engagement with the brake disc 18 with wedges 15, 16 creating a servo-effect. When the trailer is being reversed,the wedges 15, 16 will permit a reduction in the braking force between the pads and the disc, even if a maximum pressure is being delivered by the master-cylinder. A rod or cable (30, Figure 4) operated parking brake is actuated by lever 24 or by a brakeaway cable (29). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2278769-A (GB)
Title: Storage holder
Inventor: BURFIELD PAUL ANTHONY
IPC: B65F1/14
Filed: 1993-06-07
Abstract: A storage holder for the storage of loose items such as foodstuffs and toiletries for use in moving vehicles comprises of an elasticated cord 2 braced within two side supports 1, and a lower rest 3 where the supports and rest are joined to a central pillar or spine. The elasticated cord 2, stretches to accommodate irregularities in the size and shape of the item being held and offers a degree of tension to grip the item and eliminate rattle noises during transit. The holder may be mounted on a vertical surface e.g. by screw fixing or double sided tape. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2267926-A (GB)
Title: A tube for forming a pile
Inventor: ELLIS MICHAEL FRANK
IPC: E02D5/56
Filed: 1993-06-18
Abstract: A tube for forming a pile, the tube being closed at one end and being provided at or towards it closed leading end with at least one cutter blade 6 and having one or more apertures 8 in the wall thereof, the apertures being disposed between said one or more cutter blades and the closed leading end of the tube. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2279409-A (GB)
Title: Booster blower.
Inventor: LEE MING YANG
IPC: F04D29/16
Filed: 1993-06-22
Abstract: A booster blower including a vane wheel 2 driven to induce a current of air around a wind channel 11 within a front casing portion 3 and a rear casing portion 1, the wind channel being in communication with an air inlet 15 and an air outlet 16 two wind shields 10, 30 disposed in the wind channel between the inlet and outlet on opposite sides of the vane wheel 2 to partially obscure the air outlet 16 for causing the induced current of air to increase its pressure as it is blown through the air outlet. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2279690-A (GB)
Title: Window fastener locking device
Inventor: TALBOT DONALD THOMAS
IPC: E05C3/04
Filed: 1993-07-09
Abstract: A window fastener locking device has a hexagonal section body 10 with a tongue 10<a> at one end to fit in a slot in a fastener claw 14. The body 10 has undercut faces 10<b>, 10<c> on opposite sides of the tongue, which form points for biting into the claw 14, when a fixing screw 11 which secures the body 10 to the claw is tightened. A locking screw can be extended to abut a stop 13 to prevent reverse movement of the claw 14. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2269145-A (GB)
Title: Wheelchair wheel with self-contained motor
Inventor: HIGGINS ROY
IPC: A61G5/04
Filed: 1993-07-28
Abstract: The wheelchair comprises a frame supporting a seat and has a pair of motor driven wheels 16 wherein the motor 32, 50, 132 for each wheel is mounted within the wheel. Pinions 42, 44 driven by the motor 32, Fig.2, mesh with a circular rack 46 formed in a compartment 30 in the wheel. The batteries 35 may be located adjacent the motor. Alternatively, Fig.4, the motor 50 is coupled to a 90 degree reduction gearbox 58 the final gear 60 of which meshes with a toothed belt 62 which drives a toothed ring 64 formed in the wheel compartment 68. In a further alternative, Fig.6, the final drive gear 140 meshes with an internal ring gear 142, which is part of the front plate 144 of the wheel. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2282425-A (GB)
Title: Branch Connection Seal
Inventor: CAHILL PETER J
IPC: F16L55/172
Filed: 1993-09-25
Abstract: A split collar 1 is provided for sealing a branch connection 8 which is connected to a pipe 9. The branch connection 8 may be in the form of a ferrule from which a lead pipe extends. The lead pipe is flattened so as to be at least partially blocked, and the flattened portion of the branch connection 8 is then severed to define a stub projecting from the ferrule. A split collar 1 is then clamped onto the pipe so that the stab and ferrule are enclosed within a cavity defined by the collar 1 and sealed by engagement between the collar 1 and the pipe 9. The split collar 1 forms a permanent fixture which prevents any leakage from the branch connection stab 8, the ferrule, or cracks or holes in the pipe 9 adjacent the branch connection 8 which might appear at a later date. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2282888-A (GB)
Title: Measuring ruler
Inventor: HASHI YOSHIHARU
IPC: G01B3/00
Filed: 1993-10-13
Abstract: A measuring ruler has an elongate body divided into two strips 4, 5 by a central slot 7. A common scale is marked on both strips for ease of viewing. Alternatively, separate scales, to be read from the same end of the body, are marked on respective ones of the strips. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2270954-A (GB)
Title: Starter motor
Inventor: ISOZUMI SHUZOU
IPC: F02N15/06
Filed: 1993-11-09
Abstract: An engine starter comprises a DC motor having a hollow armature rotation shaft 3 connected by way of a planetary gear speed reducer 9 to an output rotation shaft 4 axially slidably received in the armature rotation shaft, the output rotation shaft 4 having a helical spline portion 4c engaged with a helical spline portion of an inner member 7b of an overrunning clutch device 7. A pin ion 5 is mounted on a front end of the output rotation shaft 4 to engage with a ring gear of an engine. The pinion 5 is formed integrally with a tubular portion 115 which is slidable relative to a portion 109 of the clutch inner member 7b and with the exterior of the output rotation shaft 4.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2273412-A (GB)
Title: Film scanner which doubly scans to correct for film speed and position errors.
Inventor: EIBERGER BERTHOLD
IPC: H04N5/253
Filed: 1993-12-08
Abstract: In a film scanner for optically scanning a film for obtaining a picture signal, which film is moved at a constant speed, an image position correction which is as motion-independent as possible, is ensured in that the film scanner at least doubly scans at least parts of each film image and determines image position errors by comparing the two scanning signals of the same nominal image content, and corrects the picture signal in dependence upon the determined image position error. The optical scanner has two line sensors arranged at a predetermined distance apart and image position errors are determined by comparing the signal from the second sensor with the appropriately delayed signal from the first sensor. Motion vectors can be derived for correcting film speed, image position and image size. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2273811-A (GB)
Title: Magnetic disk drive unit
Inventor: RICHARD DAVID W
IPC: G11B33/14
Filed: 1993-12-23
Abstract: A disk drive suitable for a hostile environment, e.g. a military aircraft, has a magnetic flux sensor 306 disposed on a circuit board which extends over a portion of an arm assembly 111. The am assembly has a permanent magnet (284) therein positioned to pass under the magnetic flux sensor (e.g., a Hall effect sensor). As the arm assembly moves it is tracked by the flux sensor 306. The arm assembly may have a park or stop position wherein the arm assembly is fully retracted from the disk. In this fully retracted position the heads and disk are immune to induced shock and vibration. A temperature sensor (247) may be provided, the output of which may be used to modify the drive current to coils which move the arm assembly, to compensate for bias in flexible circuits and to correct the drift in the output of the Hall effect sensor during seek and head load/unload operations. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2277290-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in trimming knives
Inventor: BETTS DAVID
IPC: B26B11/00
Filed: 1993-10-29
Abstract: A trimming knife has a handle (11) enclosing an extendable tape measure (14), which can be extended from the housing from an orifice next to a blade (13). A flashlight with bulb (16), battery (17) and switch (18) is also enclosed in the handle and mounted so as to direct light into the area adjacent blade (13). A slot (22) is provided for replacement blades, and a pencil (23) with an eraser tip (24) received in a bore in handle (11), adjacent the flashlight, and a panel (25) provided in the handle for jotting notes. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2294562-A (GB)
Title: Memory card and indexing system
Inventor: CHO CHAN-DONG
IPC: G06K19/07
Filed: 1994-12-20
Abstract: A memory card has a record format including a data area divided into a plurality of clusters; a first index area (12) for storing a chapter attribute table made up of attribute information corresponding to a plurality of chapters, each chapter formed by a plurality of clusters (16) required for performing a one-time recording of sequential information into the data area; a second index area (14) for storing a cluster table made up of the used information of each cluster corresponding to the order of clusters of the data area; and a card management information area (18) for storing information including the number of recorded chapters. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2297870-A (GB)
Title: An energy storage and conversion apparatus
Inventor: CROMBIE IAN
IPC: H02K1/27
Filed: 1995-02-09
Abstract: An energy storage and conversion apparatus 1 comprising a containment 6 defining a vacuum chamber 9, a stator 2 within the chamber 9 and a rotor 3 around the stator 2 which, in use, is driven by the stator 2 to store energy as kinetic energy of the rotor 3 and acts with the stator 2 as a generator to release energy, wherein a rotor includes a flux shield 20 to reduce energy losses occurring due to flux 10 in the rotor 3 interacting with the containment 6 during use. By reducing the amount of flux passing from the rotor 3 to the containment 6, interactive forces are reduced thereby reducing energy losses and increasing the efficiency of the energy storage and conversion apparatus 1.
Patent GB-2289409-A (GB)
Title: Porous body for the storage and regulated release of vapourizing substances
Inventor: BREITENBUECHER KLAUS
IPC: A61L9/12
Filed: 1995-03-28
Abstract: A porous body for the storage and regulated release of vapourizable substances (fragrance emitter), which consists of open-pored sintered glass. The body preferably has a pore volume of from 30 to 85 % and a mean pore size of from 10 to 350  mu m. The body is inert to the stored substances, has a very high storage volume and releases the stored substances very uniformly again, with, in particular, no chromatography effects occurring.
Patent GB-2300063-A (GB)
Title: Guitar pick ring
Inventor: KIKVADZE IRAKLI
IPC: G10D3/16
Filed: 1995-04-11
Abstract: A guitar ring pick Fig.2. consists of a ring that one should put on the middle section of one's middle finger and a flexible shaft that comes out of vertically from the outer surface of this ring. The ring should be fixed firmly on a finger in order to avoid it's rotation at the time of performance. After adjusting the ring to the finger a hand should be contracted into a fist and the shaft will come into vertical position to the strings. To produce a continious strumming one should swiftly move the shaft up and down the guitar strings.
Patent GB-2306136-A (GB)
Title: Producing paperless laminates with electrographic images
Inventor: BEALE JEFFREY DARREL
IPC: G03G13/00
Filed: 1995-10-12
Abstract: A paperless laminate carrying an electrographically printed image can be made by (i) electrographically printing an image on a sheet material that comprises a paper backing (3) and a dielectric image-receiving layer (1) and optionally an adhesive layer (2) between layers (1) and (3); (ii) causing the printed sheet material to adhere by its image-receiving surface (1) to a paperless substrate (4); (iii) wetting the paper backing and (iv) stripping the wetted paper backing (3) to leave the image-receiving coating layer (1) adhering to the paperless substrate (4). Alternatively step (ii) can involve using a weakly-adhesive substrate surface, and thereafter (iii) wetting the paper backing; (iv) stripping the wetted paper backing; (v) causing the surface of the coating layer exposed by stripping step (iv) to adhere to a relatively strong adhesive paperless substrate; and (vi) stripping off the weakly adhesive substrate. Such a paperless printed laminate can comprise an electrographically printed image-bearing layer on a substrate selected from glass, metal, or plastics in sheet or in solid form.
Patent GB-2297693-A (GB)
Title: Syringes
Inventor: HYMANSON VICTOR
IPC: A61M5/24
Filed: 1994-11-10
Abstract: A syringe has a drug-containing cartridge (7) with a bung (8) at one end which is engaged by a plunger (4), and a membrane (9) at its other end which is penetrated by a needle. A connecting structure (11) is connected to (or is formed integrally with) the needle (17) and fits onto the forward end of the cartridge (7) and the syringe. After use the cartridge (7), the connecting structure (11) and the needle (17) can be disposed together. A sleeve (19) is slidably mounted on the structure (11) and can be moved to sheath the needle (17).
Patent GB-2303085-A (GB)
Title: Method of forming a protective film on a coated surface and apparatus for carrying out the same
Inventor: AKASAKA KENSAKU
IPC: B05C11/06
Filed: 1995-12-20
Abstract: A coating nozzle (3) movable in a horizontal direction perpendicular to an advancing direction of a vehicle body (1) drops or trickles a strippable paint linearly along one side of the periphery of an area to be protected, and an air blow-off unit (4) blows off air (F) at a predetermined angle against a surface to which the strippable paint is applied. whereby the strippable paint is spread over the area to be protected, and when the thus spread strippable paint becomes dry, it forms a protective film. The strippable paint is prevented from adhering to a portion other than the area to be protected, and the protective film of strippable paint has a uniform thickness.
Patent GB-2319200-A (GB)
Title: Plug removal assembly
Inventor: LOGAN-JONES IAN
IPC: B25B27/02
Filed: 1996-11-14
Abstract: A plug removal assembly for removing a plug 12 from a workpiece 13 the plug being of the type which comprises a stem 15 and a sleeve 14 comprises a stem retainer 10 having a head end 23 and a shaft 21, the head end of the retainer being adapted for attachment to the plug stem 15 and the shaft 21 incorporating a screw thread along at least part of its length, and a roll tap 11 with external 26 and internal 22 threads, the internal threads corresponding to the threads on the stem retainer shaft 21, stem retainer 10 being a screw fit inside the roll tap, the roll tap 11 further incorporating a pulling face 27 to enable the assembly and any attached plug elements to be withdrawn from the workpiece. In use, the stem retainer 10 is adhesively and mechanically bonded to the stem 15, which is then driven through the sleeve 14 by striking the end of the roll tap 11. The roll tap is then threaded into the sleeve 14 thus enabling the sleeve to be pulled out of the workpiece.
Patent GB-2309693-A (GB)
Title: Cement grinding aid
Inventor: EL-JAZAIRI BAYHASS
IPC: C08F299/02
Filed: 1996-12-18
Abstract: A cement clinker grinding aid comprises a styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer (SMA) superplasticiser. The SMA is preferably a type with polyoxyalkylene-based side chains.
Patent GB-2309026-A (GB)
Title: Packages having product viewing windows
Inventor: DE MONGE FERNON MAURICE
IPC: B65D85/02
Filed: 1997-01-13
Abstract: A carton blank (1) has an inner face (2) and an outer face. A product-viewing window opening (4) extends through the blank (1). A transparent film (5) is mounted on the inner face (2) of the blank (1) covering the entire inner face (2) and extending across the window opening (4). The film is attached to the blank by an ultra-violet curing adhesive. The blank (1) can be folded to form a sleeve for compact discs.
Patent GB-2321839-A (GB)
Title: Farrowing enclosure
Inventor: BEACROFT CLAIRE ALISON ELIZABE
IPC: A01K1/02
Filed: 1997-02-06
Abstract: A farrowing enclosure has a first member 22 moveable between a closed position in which it co-operates with a second member 24 to define a space for constraining a sow therebetween (Fig 1), and an open position in which the sow is unconstrained by the members (Fig 2). The enclosure further comprises securing means selectively operable to secure the members. Details of the enclosure construction are disclosed. A heat pad 6 is disclosed.
Patent GB-2325771-A (GB)
Title: Display device for cycles
Inventor: ELIMER MICHAEL CHARLES
IPC: G09F21/04
Filed: 1997-05-30
Abstract: A display device 10, bearing, for example, a printed advert, picture, logo or other graphics image, is mounted on a wheel 12 of a cycle. In a preferred form, the display device comprises one or more reflective or luminescent elements (28, Figure 1) and also includes one or more through holes (29) to reduce windage in cross winds. In a preferred form, the display device is disc-shaped, and includes a central aperture (16) to accommodate the wheel hub 18, and a radial cut (20) to permit the display device to be fed between the spokes of the wheel. The display device is retained by frictional engagement with the spokes. The display device may include a lenticular display (Figure 4).