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Patent GB-2082718-A (GB)
Title: Method of assembling a valve rain in an internal combustion engine
IPC: F01L1/255
Filed: 1981-08-20
Abstract: A method of assembling a valve train in an internal combustion engine, which valve train comprises a camshaft (5), an hydraulic tappet (6), a valve rocker (1), a sliding contact element (9) fixed to one arm of the rocker (1) and effecting sliding contact between the hydraulic tappet (6) and the valve rocker (1). and a poppet valve (7) actuated by the other arm of the valve rocker, the method comprising the steps of   (a) grading a supply of sliding contact elements (9) into a plurality of tolerance range groups corresponding to the amount by which the sliding contact elements would space the said one arm of the valve rocker from the hydraulic tappet, (b) assembling the camshaft (5), hydraulic tappet (6), valve rocker (1), and poppet valve (7) on the internal combustion engine, (c) measuring the gap (Y) between the said one arm and the hydraulic tappet which should be occupied by the sliding contact element, (d) selecting a sliding contact element (9) from the tolerance groups corresponding most closely to the measured gap, and (e) securing the selected sliding contact element (9) in the valve rocker (1) without disassembling the valve train.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2115054-A (GB)
Title: A locking mechanism
Inventor: EDMUNDSON CLIVE STUART
IPC: E05B37/12
Filed: 1982-02-15
Abstract: A locking mechanism suitable for a gunsafe or the like makes use of a series of lock elements (20). Each lock element has a handle (26) and a latch (32) mounted on the door of the sale by means of a spindle (24). The handle has a raised pointer (30) and a number of raised marks (34) are provided on the door and jamb. For each relative setting of the latch and the handle on the spindle, one mark (34) indicates the situation when the latch does not prevent the door opening, due to particular shape of the latch. The raised nature of the pointer and marks allows the sale to be opened according to a known combination of lock element settings even when the mechanism is not visible to the operator. The combination can be altered by changing the relative angular positions of the latch and the handle on the spindle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2118052-A (GB)
Title: A particleboard furnish blender
Inventor: MALONEY THOMAS M
IPC: B01F25/74
Filed: 1982-03-23
Abstract: Liquid is applied to wood particles which fall freely through an upright cylindrical housing (11) in the form of a concentric annular shell. The particles are fed into the center of a rotating disk (19) within the cylindrical housing (11). The disk (19) deflects the furnish radially outward against a flared deflector surface (24) which deflects the furnish directly downward substantially as a uniform concentric hollow shell. Inverted conical atomizer disks (29), which include a cupped upwardly facing surface (35) and which are supplied with liquid by means (30) are rotated about the axis of the housing (11) to produce annular atomized spray patterns of liquid, directed outwardly against the falling particles. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2125661-A (GB)
Title: Hand tool
Inventor: GIBSON ALAN GRAHAM
IPC: A01G1/12
Filed: 1982-07-20
Abstract: A hand tool (10) for gathering material such as garden waste comprising an elongate handle (11) for grasping by the user, and a collecting member (15) at one end thereof having at its forward end a platform portion (16) formed of a plurality of elongate tines (17) arranged side-by-side in sufficiently close relation to prevent any substantial escape of the material between them, and having at its rearward end an open-fronted receptacle portion (19) into which the material can move from the platform portion (16) as the fines (17) are thrust beneath material lying on the ground. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2108126-A (GB)
Title: Carbon dioxide treatment of epoxy resin compositions
Inventor: YULIN WU
IPC: C08G59/18
Filed: 1982-08-31
Abstract: An epoxy resin composition is provided which contains carbon dioxide as a cure retardant. The composition comprises an epoxy resin, a curing agent for the epoxy resin (especially an amine), a hydrocarbon diluent and carbon dioxide. It can optionally contain an alcohol. The presence of the carbon dioxide enables preparation of an epoxy resin and curing agent solution which can be stored and transported to the site of application without curing of the resin until after application. The composition is useful, for example, as a corrosion inhibitor for metal surfaces, and is particularly useful for downhole metal equipment at oil and gas drilling sites.
Patent GB-2126096-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in prosthesis
Inventor: MCKEE GEORGE KENNETH
IPC: A61F2/00
Filed: 1982-09-07
Abstract: A prosthesis for replacing a joint between two bones in which a pair of members are adapted for securing to respective bones and one of the members comprises a resilient element for absorbing or reducing the effect of shocks applied to the joint. In the case of a hip joint, the resilient element is preferably comprised in a member adapted for securing to the acetabulum. The surface of each member which contacts a surface of the other member is preferably formed by a coating of a ceramic material on a metal part. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2112805-A (GB)
Title: Reaction furnace for the indirect heating of crackable fluids
Inventor: HERBORT HANS-JOACHIM
IPC: C01B3/24
Filed: 1982-11-15
Abstract: A reaction furnace capable of functioning efficiently in off-shore process installations which comprises a plurality of vertical reaction tubes arranged in a firing chamber having one or more burners, and a plurality of horizontal beams, suitably hollow, having external insulation which extend through the central region of the furnace without impeding the fuel gas flow and to which one or more reaction tubes are attached, either being mounted externally or being mounted internally. The beams may be air cooled and can be adapted, e.g. by strengthening, to form inspection platforms within the furnace. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2112484-A (GB)
Title: A tool for bringing two heavy tubular members into abutment
Inventor: REHNMAN JAN
IPC: B25B27/16
Filed: 1982-12-10
Abstract: The tool has two mutually spaced jaws (10, 11) which are interconnected for movement relative to one another and each of which is intended to embrace a selected one of the two tubular members (14, 15). One jaw (11), is provided with a movable clamp (23), at the end of each leg of the jaw, connected to a hand-grip (18), which serves as a lever, by means of a link (21). Movement of the lever in the direction A operate the clamps and then pulls the pipe 14 towards pipe 15. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2139483-A (GB)
Title: Tufted constructions
Inventor: LEWIS JOHN C
IPC: A46B3/06
Filed: 1983-01-20
Abstract: A tufted construction (160) comprises synthetic filament tufts (102) each having an end fused integrally with a thermoplastic sheet substrate (104') having a convex configuration, each tuft (102) extending outwardly from the substrate (104') at different angles from the angle of each adjacent tuft. The tufted construction (160) is mounted on a hollow brush body to form a brush. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2119879-A (GB)
Title: Disc brakes
Inventor: OTTEWELL GERALD ALLAN
IPC: F16D65/12
Filed: 1983-04-13
Abstract: A disc (1) for a vehicle disc brake comprises two arcuate components (5, 6) which are coupled together at adjacent ends by fasteners passed through superimposed openings in overlapping step-like abutments (18, 19). Each fastener comprises a tubular device (21), suitably a dowel or roll pin, which fits tightly in a radial bore (2) defined by the openings, in combination with a bolt (28) for clamping the abutments (18, 19) into mating engagement. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2121941-A (GB)
Title: Drying glue applied to book block backs
Inventor: HAFER SIEGFRIED
IPC: B42C13/00
Filed: 1983-05-26
Abstract: A conveyor unit which passes the glued book blocks through an electric field established by HF electrodes which are arranged transversely to the conveyor unit and over which the book blocks are passed. The HF electrodes (2) are arranged in such a way as to be inclined in the transport direction, and there is provided between the book block backs (1) and the HF electrodes a continuous PTFE belt (3) which runs synchronously with the book block transport system and on which the book blocks rest with their backs. The HF electrodes bear resiliently against the underside of the belt. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2122932-A (GB)
Title: Base structure for supporting a gear box, particularly for the rolls of a cross-stand type rolling mill
Inventor: GALLETTI CESARE
IPC: B21B35/12
Filed: 1983-06-23
Abstract: In a crossed-stand type rolling mill, the gear boxes 6 included in the drive transmission to the working rolls of the mill are inclined at an angle of 45 DEG  to the horizontal. In order to facilitate the maintenance and repair of such gear boxes, a gear-box base 10 structure is provided which enables the gear box to be swung up out of its inclined position into a more convenient horizontal position (Fig. 4). The gear box is supported in this latter position by a strut 21 which can be pivoted into a stowed position when not required. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2126980-A (GB)
Title: Tippable material containers
Inventor: FLOWERS GRAHAM STANLEY
IPC: B65G65/23
Filed: 1983-09-09
Abstract: A tippable material container assembly having a support frame 10 and a material container or skip 11. The container is supported from the frame by a roller 12 and guide members 21 which move between guide rails 22, 23 control the position of the container relative to the frame during a tipping operation so that during tipping the maximum extent of the container in directions generally parallel to the ground and in planes at right angles to the general axis of tipping of the container does not significantly exceed the maximum dimension D of the container in planes at right angles to said general tipping axis. The spacing between the guide rails 22, 23 can be arranged to provide a squeezing action on the guide members 21 to control the rate of tipping of the container. Examples of containers used as wheelbarrows and trailer-mounted skips are also described. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2127021-A (GB)
Title: Brassinosteroid derivatives having a plant growth-regulating action and their manufacture and use
Inventor: KERB ULRICH
IPC: A01N43/22
Filed: 1983-09-12
Abstract: Novel brassinosteroid derivatives of the general formula I   <IMAGE> (in which R17 represents C8-C10-alkyl or -alkenyl, Z represents -CO-O- CH2- or -O-CO-CH2-, and R2 and R3 each represents H or acyl or together represent   <IMAGE> X representing H, optionally chlorinated C1-C4-alkyl or C1-C3- alkoxy and Y representing H, optionally chlorinated C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C3-alkoxy or optionally substituted aryl) and their manufacture. The novel compounds have a plant growth-regulating action, being particularly suitable for influencing the vegetative and generative growth of leguminous plants, for example soya bean plants, and accordingly may be made up with suitable carriers and/or auxiliaries into plant growth- regulating preparations and may be used for treating seeds, living plants and areas of land.
Patent GB-2128983-A (GB)
Title: Cutting sheet material e.g. glass
Inventor: HEATHCOCK MARJORIE
IPC: C03B33/12
Filed: 1983-10-27
Abstract: A device for cutting large sheets of glass etc. is used in a vertical position so that it uses little table space and comprises two boards 1, 2 hinged together and arranged so that they are co-planar to define a bed for cutting the glass G. One board 2 can be moved relative to the other 1 by releasing a catch 6, so causing a score mark in the glass to propagate to crack the glass into two pieces. The score may be made through slot 5 in heavy metal guide 4. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2130620-A (GB)
Title: Domed building
Inventor: KING SEAN SHELLEY
IPC: E04B1/32
Filed: 1983-11-09
Abstract: The building (1) comprises a circular side wall (2) formed from a plurality of segments (4). A roof (3) in the shape of a semi-ellipsoid formed by a plurality of lower and upper segments (5) and (6), is supported on the side wall (2). The wall and roof segments (4), (5) and (6) are secured together by circumferential tensioning wires. Windows (14) and doors (15) are provided in the segments (4) of the side walls (2), and a skylight (8) is provided at the top of the roof (3). The segments are prefabricated in reinforced concrete. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2131509-A (GB)
Title: Failsafe means in tractor and trailer braking systems
Inventor: SAMUELSSON HAKAN
IPC: B60T13/26
Filed: 1983-12-06
Abstract: To ensure that the braking systems of vehicles forming a vehicle train mutually coact, and that if such is not the case they trigger measures for emergency braking, the tractor braking system includes an electrically controlled emergency venting valve (51) in a supply line (53) to a coupling part (20) for the trailer, said emergency venting valve (51) being connected to a pressure transducer (50) adapted for sensing the operating pressure in a service supply line (35) to a second coupling part (36). When the pressure has failed or is too low in the supply line (35) between the vehicles, and when simultaneously there is an indication from driver's valve (11) that the vehicle brakes are in use, control unit (40) activates the emergency venting valve (51) to interrupt the pressure transfer to the trailer, which responds by applying the trailer brakes. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2159652-A (GB)
Title: Route indicating devices
Inventor: MORGAN MICHAEL WILLIAM JOHN
IPC: G09B29/10
Filed: 1984-05-29
Abstract: A electrically powered journey route planner, which is capable of being programmed for storing information regarding intermediate destinations, route numbers.and distances for a given journey is disclosed. The system will convey this information on command, in either a visual or audible manner, enabling a journey to be made without constant reference to maps whilst driving and is designed to be of particular benefit at night. Details are entered using an alpha-numeric keyboard and displayed on a LED screen. The device is portably mounted or integrated with the vehicle instrumentation. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2159394-A (GB)
Title: Ski-carrying equipment
Inventor: JORDAN WENDY ELIZABETH
IPC: A45F5/00
Filed: 1984-05-31
Abstract: Ski carrying equipment comprises at least a sling 10 of which one end has means eg loop 26 whereby it can be attached to a pair of skis below the ski bindings 34 and another portion, e.g. the other end, has means eg a loop whereby it can be attached to, or is permanently attached to, a fastening loop 12 for releasably encircling the pair of skis. The sling may be part of a body harness and may be adjustable in length. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2151221-A (GB)
Title: High strength oxidation resistant carbon/carbon composites
Inventor: SHAFFER ROBERT C
IPC: D01F11/12
Filed: 1984-12-11
Abstract: A fibrous carbon fabric is first coated with a flexible thermosetting resin, which may optionally contain a refractory metal capable of reacting with boron to form a metal boride and is then cured and the coated fabric is re-coated with a second thermosetting resin containing a boron compound and, optionally, a refractory metal capable of reacting with boron to form a metal boride. The second thermosetting resin is at least partially cured. The impregnated fabric is then cut into patterns and molded to give a thermoset product which is further heat treated to carbonize and graphitize the thermosetting resin and to form an essentially carbon/carbon composite. The composite may then be densified by reimpregnation with a resin containing atomically dispersed boron and, optionally, a resin containing atomically dispersed refractory metals capable of reacting with baron to form a metal boride. Thereafter the composite is finally densified by the use of a carbon chemical vapor deposition or to further treatment with a reimpregnation resin. This is followed by a heating cycle to carbonize the reimpregnant material and the resultant carbon/carbon composite is then further heat treated so as to diffuse the baron into this composite matrix.
Patent GB-2170036-A (GB)
Title: Question and answer teaching aid
Inventor: RICHARDS ROBIN ROY
IPC: G09B3/08
Filed: 1985-01-21
Abstract: The teaching aid comprises a sheet of material having at least one problem provided thereon which requires a solution to be chosen from a number of available solutions (which may be on the same or a further sheet), an indication of the correctness of each available solution being provided invisibly so as to be revealable in use by action of the user. In the first embodiment, a removable coating obscuring the indications is provided which may be readily removed using a coin or fingernail. The coating may be formed from aluminium powder. In another embodiment the indications of correctness of the solutions are printed on the sheet with a chemical which is normally invisible but reacts with e.g. the copper content of a coin to reveal the indications.
Patent GB-2159480-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for re-railing railway vehicles
Inventor: HUBBOLD COLIN
IPC: B61K5/04
Filed: 1985-05-15
Abstract: The apparatus has a bridge member 10 locatable under an end of a rail vehicle 62 to be re-railed and two carriages 12, 14 having respective lower surfaces in sliding engagement with an upper surface of the member 10. One or both of such surfaces is of a relatively low friction material. The carriages 12, 14 have respective piston-and-cylinder units 18, 20 for lifting the end of the vehicle 62. The carriages 12, 14 are interconnected by a link 16 and are movable along the bridge member 10 by hydraulic piston-and-cylinder units 22. The carriages 12, 14 are free to move transversely of the member 10 during movement of the carriages 12, 14 along the member 10 in order to accommodate the arcuate movement 70 of the end of the vehicle 62. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2162580-A (GB)
Title: Control of exhaust valves and exhaust brake of an internal combustion engine
Inventor: BERGMANN HORST
IPC: F02D9/06
Filed: 1985-08-02
Abstract: A throttle flap (7) for retarding exhaust gases during braking arranged in an exhaust gas duct (5) and the exhaust valves (47), Fig. 3, actuated by a cam shaft via rockers (52) have limiting devices (2), by means of which the stroke of the exhaust valves (47) is limited during braking to prevent the valves (47) from closing completely. To increase the engine braking power the stroke of the exhaust valves (47) is limited to an amount such that the slightly open exhaust valves achieve a braking effect. A valve (12), which is responsive to the brake-pedal travel (14) controls the throttle flap (7) and the limiting devices (2). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2164734-A (GB)
Title: Kiln car superstructure
Inventor: KEHL KARL DIETER
IPC: F27D5/00
Filed: 1985-09-18
Abstract: A hollow upright with transverse openings for use on kiln car superstructures, has bends 4b,4c shaped from the wall sections in the area of the transverse openings to provide enlarged supporting areas and guideways for cross bar insertion. The upright may alternatively have horizontal tubular supporting areas, and is of recrystallised silicon carbide. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2167608-A (GB)
Title: Electrical lift drive
Inventor: ROSCH WOLFGANG
IPC: H02K11/33
Filed: 1985-11-19
Abstract: An electrical lift drive has a motor controlled by power and control electronics systems (4,5). Those electronics systems (4,5) form a single constructional unit with the motor, for example by positioning them in a box 3 connected directly to the housing of the motor, the box 3 being e.g. an elongation of a motor terminal box 2. A ventilator 6 for providing a cooling air flow for the motor may also then be used to cool the electronics systems (4,5). Thus the assembly of the drive is considerably facilitated and considerably less expensive, since parts which must inevitably be attached to the motor can be used to a very large extent to mount the electronic systems. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2169477-A (GB)
Title: Frequency agile communication receiver
Inventor: TARRAN CHRISTOPHER JOHN
IPC: H04B1/713
Filed: 1985-12-03
Abstract: A communication receiver operable in a frequency agile or hopping mode, the receiver including two receiver aerials 2, 4 and an interference cancellation circuit. The interference cancellation circuit includes two weighting circuits W1, W2 operatively associated with two switches SW1, SW2 for switching the two weighting circuits W1, W2 alternately into operation so that whilst one of the weighting circuits W1, W2 is used at one frequency, the other of the weighting circuits W2, W1 can be set as appropriate for the next frequency to be switched into operation synchronously with the next frequency hopping operation. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2169866-A (GB)
Title: Aircraft-mounted radome pod
Inventor: FITZPATRICK ROGER SEAN
IPC: H01Q1/42
Filed: 1986-01-22
Abstract: An airborne radar system is provided in the form of an aerodynamic radome pod 1 of comparable size and shape to an aircraft engine pod, the radome pod being mounted on a deployment linkage for deploying the pod from and retracting the pod beneath the underside of an aircraft wing 3 in flight. Preferably the arrangement is mounted from a "hard point" 9 on an aircraft wing in a position provided for an optional spare engine pod. The deployment linkage is a parallelogram linkage (Fig. 3). An S-band radar antenna 5 is mounted on the pod for 360 DEG  rotation about a vertical axis 10. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2187430-A (GB)
Title: Bale wrapping
Inventor: LOUGHRIDGE SAMUEL JAMES
IPC: A01F15/07
Filed: 1986-02-28
Abstract: A tractor is reversed until a roller 36 on mobile wrapping apparatus abuts the cylindrical surface of a bale. The free end of a roll of film mounted on a spool carrier 32 of the apparatus is then trapped with the bale by tucking it into the string binding the bale. The tractor is then reversed slowly to cause the roller to push and roll the bale rearwardly and at the same time a rotor arm assembly 20 which carries the spool carrier 32 is rotated about a bearing 22 to cause the roll of film to move around the bale and wrap the bale. As the bale is rolling slowly, each successive pass of the rotor arm assembly causes the strips of film to overlap each other to a considerable extent until the bale is completely wrapped. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2173732-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for compacting refuse or the like
Inventor: COFFEY MANUS
IPC: B30B9/30
Filed: 1986-04-14
Abstract: A refuse compaction apparatus comprises a trough for receiving refuse or the like has a screw or auger mechanism mounted in the trough for transferring the refuse from the trough to a container attachable to the trough. The mechanism or an extension thereof has a plate member 13 rotatably mounted thereon and carries a drive means. The plate member has a torque arm 14 attached thereto and at least one biasing means 15 mounted on a base for permitting limited rotation of the arm 14. A switch means 16 is operatively associated with the arm so that upon said rotation of the arm beyond a predetermined limit, the switch means is actuated so as to inactivate the drive means. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2174407-A (GB)
Title: A reinforcing steel
Inventor: SHIMADA HARUO
IPC: C22C38/16
Filed: 1986-05-16
Abstract: A high-purity reinforcing steel resistant to salt and capable of retarding deterioration of concrete even when the salt content of the concrete is greater than 0.5 wt% in terms of NaCl amount in the sand. The reinforcing steel consists essentially of 0.001 to 1.0 wt% of C, less than 0.05 wt% of Si, 0.01 to 2.0 wt% of Mn, less than 0.015 wt% of P, less than 0.005 wt% of S, 1.0 to 5.5 wt% of Ni, 0.001 to 0.5 wt% of W, 0.001 to 0.10 wt% of Al, the balance being Fe and incidental impurities. Optional additions of Ca, Ce, Nb, Ti, V, Mo, Pb are possible.