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Patent GB-2289851-A (GB)
Title: Exercise apparatus
Inventor: GARDNER PETER EDWARD
IPC: A61H1/02
Filed: 1994-09-26
Abstract: An exercise apparatus comprises a body in the form of a cylinder divided into two parts along an inclined plane, the two parts (10, 12) being turned relative to each other so that the opposite ends of the body are inclined to each other, the opposite ends of the body being coupled to end members (16, 20) via respective bearings (14, 18). The apparatus can be used in a variety of ways, for example by being laid on the ground for the user to stand upon and, by shifting his weight around in a circular movement, causing the direction of tilt of the upper end member (20) to sweep around in a corresponding circular manner. The platform (20) may be prevented from rotation by a tie (22). The apparatus may be driven by a motor (24). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2294665-A (GB)
Title: RO-RO ship/ferry with buoyancy tanks to prevent capsizing
Inventor: EL SHATAWY AHMED AHMED
IPC: B63B43/12
Filed: 1994-11-02
Abstract: A Ro-Ro ship/ferry is provided with water-tight buoyancy tanks 1 along opposite sides and has further buoyancy tanks 3, 4, 5, 6 fitted under each of the decks 2 and covering the ship's width and most of its length. The side buoyancy tanks 1 can be filled by a system (see Fig. 3) comprising pumps (7, 8), pipes (9, 10, 13) and valves (11, 12, 14). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2296998-A (GB)
Title: Cable gland
Inventor: HAND EDWARD
IPC: H02G15/04
Filed: 1995-01-10
Abstract: A cable gland 5 has an inner clamping member 11 and an outer clamping member 12 for clamping an armour portion 2 of an electric cable 1 therebetween. The inner clamping member 11 has an external tapered surface 23 with a radial step 23 c separating respective conical clamping surfaces (23a, figure 2) and 23 b . The clamping surfaces (23 a ), 23 b extend in the same direction and are selectively co-operable with an opposed conical clamping surface 26 provided by an internal tapered surface 26 of the outer clamping member 12 to vary the size of an annular gap between the clamping members 11, 12 for accommodating different thicknesses of armour portion 2. More than one step 23 c can be provided and a set of differently sized outer clamping members 12.
Patent GB-2286829-A (GB)
Title: Methods for producing high purity magnesium alloys
Inventor: GREEN WILLIAM G
IPC: C22C1/02
Filed: 1993-06-30
Abstract: A method for producing a high purity magnesium alloy is disclosed in which the alloying components are introduced in the molten state into molten magnesium. In accordance with the process of the invention, a predetermined amount of primary magnesium is heated and melted in a crucible. Predetermined amounts of desired alloying metals are selected and heated to their melting temperature in a separate crucible. The molten alloying metals are then introduced into the molten magnesium to substantially instantaneously alloy with the molten magnesium in a reaction raising the temperature of the melt. Elemental manganese when first alloyed with other alloying metals prior to its addition to the molten magnesium is found to consistently be more effective in reducing the iron impurity level of the melt to a level below 50 ppm. The introduction of a molten alloy of manganese and one or more rare earth metals into the molten magnesium, reduces a settling out of the rare earth metal from the melt and increases the alloying efficiency for the rare earth metal to greater than 80 %. The efficiency of the process of the invention is substantially increased, the consumption of time and energy is decreased, and the production of magnesium chloride slag and gaseous HCI is avoided.
Patent GB-2288582-A (GB)
Title: Single line multiple purchase block and tackle system
Inventor: SCACE GREGORY
IPC: B66D3/06
Filed: 1995-04-21
Abstract: A block and tackle system for connecting a beam 10 to a deck 12 having two different purchases is operated from a single line 18. The system includes a primary system (line 18) and a secondary system (line 26) having a higher purchase than the primary system. The primary and secondary systems are separated by a one-way block 5, and the secondary system is connected back to a floating block 3 with a flexible tether 24 in the primary system. The secondary system is activated upon initial ease of the line 18 from any given position, with the one-way block 5 locking the line in the ease direction. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2299925-A (GB)
Title: Slug deterrent
Inventor: POWELL JOAN ELSIE
IPC: A01K67/033
Filed: 1995-10-24
Abstract: A slug or snail deterrent comprises an aluminium sheet one edge of which has a series of cuts, each adjacent pair of cuts forming therebetween a tab of material, alternate tabs being bent at 90 degrees. The deterrent can be placed around plant pots or pushed into the ground around outdoor plants.
Patent GB-2296748-A (GB)
Title: Friction clutch
Inventor: REIK WOLFGANG
IPC: F16D27/112
Filed: 1995-12-27
Abstract: A friction clutch 1 for use in motor vehicles wherein an input member 3,5 receives torque from the engine of the vehicle and an output member 8 transmits torque to the input shaft 10 of a transmission is engaged by a device which generates a force that is proportional to the magnitude of the transmitted torque. The device has two relatively rotatable parts 13, 15 between which are balls engaging ramp surfaces. The part 13 rotates with the clutch input and the part 15 is connectible to the shaft 10 through an electromagnetic clutch 19. Engagement of the clutch 19 causes relative rotation between the parts 13 and 15 and the ramp surfaces to move the part 13 axially to engage the main clutch through resilient levers 12. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2297522-A (GB)
Title: Method of manufacture of an ink jet printer head
Inventor: KATSUUMI KAZUSHIGE
IPC: B41J2/055
Filed: 1996-01-15
Abstract: A method of manufacturing, for example, an ink jet printer head (17), comprises the steps of:  (i) cutting a plurality of channels (22) on an upper surface of a substrate (21) having a bottom plate (18), lower layer (19) and piezoelectric member (20) polarised across its thicknesses; (ii) forming on the upper surface (20) of the substrate (21) a pattern resist film (32) covering the upper surface of the substrate (21) apart from the electrode forming portions (24a) on the inner surfaces of the channels (22) and wiring pattern forming portions (25a) on the substrate (21); (iii) performing a process capable of adsorbing Pd on the electrode forming portions (24a) and wiring forming portions (25a), for example by adsorbing Sn on the substrate (21) using a sensitizing process and then substituting Pd for Sn using an activation process, or by absorbing a complex compound of Pd on the substrate (21) using a catalysing process followed by an accelerating process of metallizing the complex compound of Pd, thereby adsorbing Pd as a catalyst core for electroless plating; (iv) separating the pattern resist film (32) from the substrate (21); (v) immersing the substrate (21) into a plating liquid thereby forming electrodes (24) and wiring patterns (25); and (vi) mounting a top plate (26) and a nozzle plate (28) onto the substrate (21).
Patent GB-2297767-A (GB)
Title: Fibre feeding
Inventor: HURST CHARLES H
IPC: D01G23/02
Filed: 1996-02-08
Abstract: A fibre feeding and metering device comprises a hopper 1 suitable for holding the fibers having a mouth 11 with a slit, one wall of the slit being provided by the circumferential surface of a rotatable feed roll 2 for urging fibers through the slit into a receiving zone 4, and a counter-rotatable means 3 for removing fibers from the surface of the feed roll in the receiving zone. Hopper 1 has vibrator 14, and plate 16 adjustable to vary slit size. The arrangement is said to reduce clamping of fed fibres.
Patent GB-2311945-A (GB)
Title: Magnetic fluid treatment device
Inventor: WALKER DAVID
IPC: C02F1/48
Filed: 1996-04-12
Abstract: A magnetic flow path is defined in a housing 10 between an inlet 13 and an outlet 14 such that the liquid flows transversely of the direction of flow through the inlet and towards an end wall in the housing so as to undergo direction reversal and then flows over at least part of the surfaces of a set of bar magnets 15 before then passing to the outlet. The device may be used to treat water or natural gas.
Patent GB-2312474-A (GB)
Title: I.c.engine auxiliary drive arrangement
Inventor: WILLIAMS JOHN STEPHEN
IPC: F01L1/02
Filed: 1996-04-24
Abstract: A drive member 22 fastened to the crankshaft 14 drives a cam shaft (28, Fig.1), a power steering or air conditioning pump or an alternator. The drive member 22 has a portion 40 mounted between the crankshaft flange 20 and the flywheel 24 and a portion 42 extending from the portion 40 axially of the crankshaft 14 away from the flywheel and over the crankshaft flange. The drive member 22 also has a portion 44 with sprocket or gear teeth 46 or belt grooves for transmitting drive.
Patent GB-2303660-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for the combatting of underwater growth on submerged structures
Inventor: NG HOCK LOO
IPC: E02B17/00
Filed: 1996-07-22
Abstract: An apparatus for the removal or inhibition of underwater growth on an elongate submerged body, eg an offshore marine structure, comprises at least one collar 22 adapted to extend loosely around the elongate submerged body 28, the collar including a means to apply impact force on the underwater growth to break it up, said means consisting of a body 16 into which and from which ambient water can flow. The body 16 can advantageously include rollers 12.
Patent GB-2320327-A (GB)
Title: Determining the far field pressure signatures of air-gun arrays
Inventor: SAFAR MO
IPC: G01V1/02
Filed: 1996-11-26
Abstract: An improved method is developed for the purpose of determining the far field pressure signature radiated by a marine seismic source which consists of an array of n air-guns. The improved method involves the measurement of the pressure field in the vicinity of each air-gun by n independent calibrated hydrophones with known positions when all the air-guns are fired individually and simultaneously. The far field pressure signature of the marine seismic source is obtained by ghosting and summing the recorded near field pressure signatures when all the air-guns are fired simultaneously afier removing the contributions from the neighbouring air-guns and the sea surface from the output of each near field hydrophone. The new method differs from the so-called notional source signatures method (US Patent No. 4,868,794) in that it does not involve the formation and solution of n simultaneous equations, which may give rise to instibility problem, and it requires a knowledge of the distance of each hydrophone from the air-gun immediately below it only but not its distances from the neighbouring air-guns and consequently there is no need to calculate the air-bubbles rise velocities and the relative horizontal velocities. One important feature of the new method is that the near field pressure signatures, obtained when all the air-guns are fired individually, are used to calculate not only the geometry of the air-gun-hydrophone system but also the depth of each air-gun and consequently, the depth transducers normally used for determining the depths of the air-guns are not required.
Patent GB-2321001-A (GB)
Title: Separating frozen blocks of food into portions
Inventor: KALBASSI MOSTAFA
IPC: A23L13/00
Filed: 1997-01-11
Abstract: In the field of storage and distribution of chilled or frozen meat products, there is a need for a product that retains its structural integrity until cooking commences. Thereafter, it is desirable for the product to break down into a number of smaller pieces. The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a food product (10) comprising the steps of: applying a fatty material in fluid form to the surface of each of a plurality of pieces (11) of a food material; placing the pieces (11) adjacent one another, so that each piece is substantially separated from a neighbouring piece by a layer 12 of the fatty material; reducing the temperature of the resulting stratified body so that the fatty material bonds the pieces together; and dividing the stratified body in a direction generally divergent from the layers of fatty material.
Patent GB-2311324-A (GB)
Title: Releasably lockable window stay
Inventor: KONDEV KOSTADIN BORIS
IPC: E05D15/44
Filed: 1997-03-21
Abstract: A window stay for the mounting of a window sash in a window frame. The window stay includes a sliding element 14. A lock mechanism enables the sliding element 14 to be located and locked in at least one locking position on the stay element 10. The locking mechanism has a latching portion 31 which is engagable with at least one engagement part 35 of the stay element 10 and an actuating part 30 which enables the latching portion 31 to be disengaged from the engagement part 35 to enable the sliding element 14 to slide along the stay element 10. There are also a re-latching means 34 which cause the latching portion 31 to re-engage with the or a said engagement part 35 upon the sliding element 14 reaching the or a locking position.
Patent GB-2324716-A (GB)
Title: Container with inter-engaging handles
Inventor: MALLAN LEE
IPC: A45C13/26
Filed: 1997-05-01
Abstract: A container 1, e.g. a shopping basket, has two pivotable handles 2, 3 mounted on top. The handles may pivot from a first position in which they lie horizontally, so that the container is unobstructed, to a second position in which the handles abut each other so that they may be gripped by one hand. The sides 6 of the handles that abut each other have integral retaining means that engage to prevent one handle from slipping relative to the other. The retaining means may comprise a series of grooves 15, 16, (24, figure 6) and corresponding projections 13, 14, (25, figure 6) on each handle that interlock when the handles are pressed together.
Patent GB-2314713-A (GB)
Title: Digital FM demodulator
Inventor: LAROSA CHRISTOPHER P
IPC: H03D3/00
Filed: 1997-05-23
Abstract: In the digital FM demodulator (330), a hard limiter (333) receives a modulated analog IF signal and limits the voltage of the IF signal to two levels. Next, a direct phase digitizer (336) uses zero-crossings of the limited IF signal to generate N-bit digital words. A phase differential circuit (340) computes the phase shift of the signal from the direct phase digitizer over a predetermined time interval. The dynamic range of the phase differential signal can be increased by replacing the phase differential circuit (340) with a high-resolution phase differential circuit. After digital demodulation and filtering and gain control by audio processor (360), the recovered signal is forwarded to a speaker (390) to produce an audio output. Thus, the digital FM demodulator both avoids problems common to analog discriminator circuitry and offers a reduced complexity, size, and power consumption alternative to conventional digital FM demodulators.
Patent GB-2325402-A (GB)
Title: Laundry basket support stand
Inventor: KEMP STEPHEN PAUL
IPC: D06F95/00
Filed: 1997-05-23
Abstract: A stand for supporting a laundry basket at a convenient height, comprises a base part for resting on the ground, and a support part on which the basket is placed. The two are joined by means which allows raising of the support from ground level to a working height, such as a lazy tongs or scissor frame as shown. Means is provided to lock the stand in its erect position. For safety purposes, clips 3 are provided which hook into the sides of the basket to retain it in position. A foot stay 4 is provided to stabilise the stand when it is being erected or collapsed.
Patent GB-2314338-A (GB)
Title: Twisted nematic liquid crystal compositions with short twisted helical pitch by adding a chiral silacyclohexane-containing compound to a nematic composition
Inventor: SHIMIZU TAKAAKI
IPC: C09K19/40
Filed: 1997-06-13
Abstract: This invention provides twisted nematic liquid crystal compositions obtained by adding a sila cyclohexane ring-containing optically active compound of the following general formula (1) to a nematic liquid crystal composition including at least one silacyclohexane compound of formulae (2) to(7)as defined in claim 1. Guest-host liquid crystal compositions and liquid crystal display devices utilizing such twisted nematic liquid crystal compositions are also provided.  Compounds of formula (1) can be added in relatively small amounts and yet induce a short twisted helical pitch. In formula (1), ring A (when n is O) and at least one of rings A and B (when n=1) is a trans-1- or trans-4-sila-1,4-cyclohexylene group. E is -CH 2 - or -O-; 7 is a chiral group containing one or more chiral carbon atoms; and the other symbols are as defined in claim 1.
Patent GB-2319292-A (GB)
Title: Holder in the form of a plate
Inventor: BECK ERICH
IPC: F16B5/02
Filed: 1997-11-06
Abstract: A holder for mounting a first component 14 on a supporting part, has a base plate 2 and means, arranged on a base plate, for fastening the holder to the first component 14, the means comprising a fastening-bolt guide 7, which protrudes from a first side of the base plate, and a fastening bolt 4, which is pushed, from the other, second base-plate side, through the fastening-bolt guide 7, as the sole fastening element between the holder and first component, the free front end 5 of the fastening-bolt guide 7 forming a first supporting point for the first component. The holder has further means, arranged on the base plate, for attaching the holder to the supporting part, comprising a plurality of supporting pins 8a, 8b, the free front ends of which form further supporting points for the first component, two of which supporting points form a tilt-stabilizing triangle with the first supporting point.
Patent GB-2332135-A (GB)
Title: Teaching football boot
Inventor: SAVVA SAVVAKIS
IPC: A43B5/02
Filed: 1997-12-09
Abstract: Areas on the boot are colour coded. These areas are known as Target Zones or Contact Areas 1,2,3 and 4 which guide the person using them what part of the boot to use for particular skills and techniques. Each colour coded area represents a different technique and skill that can be practiced by striking the ball with these parts. It is also a coaching tool for a coach to use for demonstration purposes. The coloured contact areas may either be dyed portions of the upper, or stitched onto the upper.
Patent GB-2332780-A (GB)
Title: Flat plate antenna
Inventor: DAVIDSON BRIAN JAMES
IPC: H01Q9/40
Filed: 1997-12-22
Abstract: A planar inverted-F antenna comprises a conductive polygonal lamina 202, a reference voltage plane disposed oppositely the lamina, the voltage plane and lamina being connected galvanically adjacent a first vertex 206 of the lamina by a shorting stub 208, a feed point 210 being provided near the first vertex, the lamina having a tuning slot 214 and a slot 216. The slot 216 forms first and second resonators and promote the existence of two modes of propagation. In other embodiments, the lamina may be formed by two truncated triangles (Figure 4). The sides of the polygon may be corrugated (232 Figure 5) to inductively load the peripheral mode of resonance thereby shortening the dimensions of the antenna. The lamina may be supported over air, or by a solid dielectric substrate.
Patent GB-2321444-A (GB)
Title: Containers
Inventor: PERKINS DAVID
IPC: B65D83/00
Filed: 1998-01-28
Abstract: A container comprises a tubular body member (10) fitted with a removable closure (20) at its top end and having an open bottom end: a base member (30) is engageable as a sliding fit into the body member through its open bottom end, in order to close the bottom end. The container may be filled, e.g. with tablets or a liquid, through its bottom end, before the base member (30) is inserted. As the contents of the container are used up, the base member (30) may be pushed further into the body member.
Patent GB-2323066-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle front wheel speed change apparatus
Inventor: BROMLEY STEVEN
IPC: B60K17/10
Filed: 1998-03-11
Abstract: A system for accelerating the front wheels of a vehicle, eg an agricultural tractor, on turning a corner, comprises steering angle sensors 21 which, via a control unit 22 enable or disable drive to the front wheels from a hydraulic motor 11. The drive from the hydraulic motor to the front wheels is via a one-way clutch 14. The hydraulic motor 11 is powered by a pump 6 driven either directly from the vehicle engine or from the main transmission.
Patent GB-2338259-A (GB)
Title: Height adjustment of scaffold pole
Inventor: CORNISH JOHN ROBERT EARL
IPC: E04G11/48
Filed: 1998-06-09
Abstract: A guide (2) receives the lower part of a vertical scaffold pole (24). A wedge (13) is movable beneath the guide. The upper surface of the wedge defines regions (16, 17, 18) each adjacent region having a different slope. The scaffolding may initially be supported on a horizontal platform (16). When the scaffolding is to be lowered, the wedge is moved so that a first sloping region (17) which has a shallow gradient passes under the lower edge of the scaffolding (24) to lower it slightly. As the wedge moves further, a second sloping region (18) of steeper slope passes under the scaffolding, thus lowering it substantially. Finally a second substantially horizontal platform (19) passes under the scaffolding. The far edge of the platform is provided with an upstanding stop (25) so that the wedge does not move too far. The scaffolding may support releasable shuttering for a concrete floor.
Patent GB-2341053-A (GB)
Title: Method of handling multiple phone numbers stored on a smart card under single name label
Inventor: KRAFT CHRISTIAN
IPC: H04M1/27453
Filed: 1998-08-26
Abstract: The smart card includes a phonebook memory having a group of records each of which is associated with a record identification number (101 in fig.6), a name label field (103 in fig. 6) in which a name label may be stored and a dialing number field (104 in fig.6) in which a dialing number may be stored. A processor identifies records having name labels corresponding to a name label requested by the user and associates the dialing numbers of the identified records with type labels <B>52</B> (e.g. 'work number', 'private number', 'mobile number') depending on the order of their record identification numbers. The dialing numbers sharing a common name label are then displayed with the corresponding type label. The phone book memory may be transferred to a volatile memory within the phone. The content of the phonebook memory is then updated when the user edits the volatile memory.
Patent GB-2329346-A (GB)
Title: Cleaning device for filter of dust filter device
Inventor: VANHALA MARKKU JUHANI
IPC: A47L9/20
Filed: 1997-04-29
Abstract: The invention relates to a cleaning device for a filter of a dust filter device, the cleaning device comprising means (2) for feeding air through the filter (1) in a direction opposite to the normal air flow direction. For efficient cleaning, the cleaning device comprises a frame element (5) that is arranged outside the filter (1) to move in relation to the filter and is provided with cam elements (6) and nozzles (7). The cam elements (6) are arranged to open the gaps between the lamellas of the filter (1) in response to a movement of the frame element (5), and the nozzles (7) are arranged to direct an air jet parallel to the normal air flow between the lamellas opened by the cam elements (6) and to remove the dust from between the lamellas.