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Patent GB-2134431-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in ball-point pens
Inventor: DEARNALEY DR GEOFFREY
IPC: C23C14/50
Filed: 1984-02-03
Abstract: A method of treating the surface of balls for use in roller ball pens, comprising the operations of placing a plurality of the said balls in a container in an evacuated enclosure, subjecting the balls to bombardment with a beam of ions, and agitating the balls so that the balls are in a state of continuous motion while they are being subjected to ion bombardment. The beam current is passed through the mass of balls by arcing. The beam may be of N<+> ions, to increase wear resistance of the surface of the balls which may be of tungsten carbide.
Patent GB-2156694-A (GB)
Title: Electric drive for toys
Inventor: THOMSON HARRY S
IPC: A63H29/24
Filed: 1984-02-17
Abstract: A toy model of a human figure includes a body 2 containing two batteries 4 and an electric motor 6. A head 8 houses an on-off switch 10 operated by a button 14 protruding from a cap 12. The motor 6 drives a cog 16 which drives a driven member in another toy such as a car, a fire engine or a car wash when the fiture is sat in the car or fire engine or stood on the car wash. Alternatively, the battery is connected via the switch to electrical terminals adapted for connection to corresponding terminals on the other toys. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2136559-A (GB)
Title: Air circulation in a building
Inventor: MOULSLEY LEONARD JOHN
IPC: F24F7/007
Filed: 1984-02-29
Abstract: An air circulation arrangement for a space within a building includes a fan to draw air upwards in the space and discharge it horizontally into the space so that at an edge of the space the air is deflected downwards to circulate within the space. The fan may be of the mixed flow type to draw in air along a vertical axis and discharge it sideways by the action of the fan rotor. Other types of fan may be used with suitable deflectors or shrouds. The headroom required for the fan is much reduced in this way. The technique is particularly useful for producing a more uniform temperature in a space, for example in an animal rearing house, without increasing air draughts in an occupied part of the space. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2137799-A (GB)
Title: Dirt Detection and Display System for an Information Read-Out System
Inventor: HOSAKA TOSHIHIKO
IPC: G11B33/10
Filed: 1984-03-15
Abstract: The present invention provides a dirt detection and display system for an information read-out system comprising dirt detection means (2, 3, 6 to 10) for detecting an abnormal condition of a read-out signal produced at a pickup device and for producing a dirt detection signal. The dirt detection signal is then applied to a holding means (4) which produces an output signal for a predetermined period of time after receipt of the dirt detection signal and a display device (5) is operated according to the output signal of the holding means (4). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2139234-A (GB)
Title: Blown nylon film and process for the preparation thereof
Inventor: LANCASTER GERALD MARTIN
IPC: C08L77/00
Filed: 1984-04-17
Abstract: The preparation of monolayer blown nylon films on equipment conventionally used in the manufacture of blown polyethylene film is facilitated by the intimate admixture of a minor proportion by weight of a random ethylene/ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer into the nylon resin composition from which said blown nylon film is to be manufactured.
Patent GB-2143783-A (GB)
Title: Bulkhead
Inventor: MURATA SEIICHIRO
IPC: B63B3/20
Filed: 1984-06-29
Abstract: A ship with a double shell structure comprising an inner hull plating and an outer hull plating 2 connected together only by a plurality of connecting longitudinals 3 fixed to transverse bulkheads 4 spaced apart longitudinally of the ship except by the transverse bulkheads, each of the transverse bulkheads having a double shell structure 11 at least at a peripheral portion thereof. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2145611-A (GB)
Title: Soil cultivating implements
Inventor: VAN DER LELY ARY
IPC: A01B63/32
Filed: 1984-08-29
Abstract: A soil cultivating implement 3 in combination with an additional implement 24, such as a seed drill, is lifted clear of the ground to facilitate ready manoeuvering of the combination by a double-acting hydraulic piston and cylinder assembly which interconnects a carrier structure 9, 10 of a freely rotatable ground roller 12 and a coupling member or trestle 18 of the soil cultivating implement, said piston and cylinder assembly being combined with stop means which allows a previous level to be reset. Upon operating the piston and cylinder assembly to displace the roller 12 downwardly relative to a frame portion 1 of the soil cultivating implement, that implement and also the seed drill 24 will be raised so far clear of the ground surface that the tines 5 of soil working members 3 of the soil cultivating implement will be spaced above the ground surface by not less than substantially 10 cms. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2147635-A (GB)
Title: Foundation for suspended floors
Inventor: GRAF MICHAEL CHARLES
IPC: E02D27/01
Filed: 1984-10-08
Abstract: Method for constructing a suspended floor structure for a building includes drilling a pattern of holes (1) in the terrain, positioning a temporary, load supporting and jacking structure (2, 3) over the holes (1) to support a plurality of load supporting beams (4) which are to form part of the suspended floor structure, fixing downwardly extending support columns (5) to the supporting beams (4) with the columns (5) located in the holes (1), levelling the beams (4) using the temporary supporting and jacking structure (2, 3), pouring concrete into the holes (1) to fix the columns (5) in the holes (1) and then fixing decking (6) to the beams (4). Lintels (10) attached to the columns 5 are used to support brick walls built on the lintels, after the temporary structure (2, 3) has been removed in order to enclose the floor structure. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2150898-A (GB)
Title: Cycle security device
Inventor: BURRIDGE RAYMOND COLIN
IPC: G07F17/10
Filed: 1984-11-26
Abstract: A non-portable cycle security device is provided which comprises at least one restraining member which is capable of passing over or through at least a part of the frame of a cycle and is lockable in a retraining position thereby preventing removal of the cycle frame from the device. The device includes a locking mechanism which may be coin-freed and the device may be adapted for attachment to an area of ground or to a fixed vertical support. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2174258-A (GB)
Title: Circuit for preventing unauthorised use of electrical equipment
Inventor: TESTER DAVID ANTHONY
IPC: H01H27/00
Filed: 1985-04-29
Abstract: The circuit has an electrical power input 13, 14 and a security (e.g. key operated) electrical switch 23 for switching between two positions, in one position connecting the power input direct to an electrical output 16 and in a second position connecting the power input via a current limiting device 28 to the output 16 which forms the sole power supply for the electrical equipment. The circuit may be used with a video recorder or computer, so that in the second position of the switch a clock will continue to operate but any attempted use of the video recorder or computer, requiring on increased load current, is prevented by the device 28. The device 28 may be a thermal switch or may limit the current without disconnecting the load. The circuit may be built into the equipment, or into a power socket or plug (Figs. 1 to 3). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2172477-A (GB)
Title: Interface between a receiver and a sub-system
Inventor: BRENNAND PETER ROBERT
IPC: H04N7/16
Filed: 1985-11-25
Abstract: An interface arrangement between a television receiver (1) and a conditional access sub-system (3), in particular for MAC type television signals comprises a bus having a first line (CKFH) conveying clock signals at television line frequency, a second line (DATA) conveying data during prescribed periods in a four television frame period bus cycle and a third line (DIRN) conveying a signal indicating the direction of data travel on the second line. The bus may be connected to a number of sub-systems (3(1), 3(2)) internal to the television receiver or may be connected via a connector unit (7) to external sub-systems (5(1), 5(2)). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2174232-A (GB)
Title: Electronic analogue display
Inventor: HEEKS THOMAS RALPH
IPC: G04C3/00
Filed: 1986-03-20
Abstract: An analogue display has a circle of electrically-energisable elements that are selectively energised such as to represent time. A rotatable setting wheel (10) has a knurled edge (26) that projects from the display casing (1). A leaf spring engages the knurled edge, the spring having a piezo- electric element on its surface which produces pulses dependent on rotation and direction of rotation of the wheel. Different elements are energised around the circle, as the wheel is rotated, according to the speed and direction of rotation. A second value, such as temperature, can be represented if each element extends radially and is divided into separate sub elements. By energising different numbers of the sub elements the apparent radial length of the element can be varied to represent the second value. The display is incorporated in a manually settable time switch. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2193972-A (GB)
Title: Compositions containing EP additives for the metal-working industry
Inventor: CSIKOS REZSO
IPC: C10N20/00
Filed: 1986-08-14
Abstract: A coolant-lubricating liquid composition containing organic polysulphides and usable in cutting and non-cutting cool-shaping of metals, mainly steel alloys, comprises an organic polysulphide of the general formula (I), (R<I-V>-Arb)c(Sx)d     (I> wherein R<I>, R<II>...R<V>are the same or different and each stands for a hydrogen atom, a C1-40 straight branched chain or cyclic saturated and/or unsaturated hydrocarbyl group and/or a derivative thereof; Ar stands for a monocyclic and/or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbyl group and/or a derivative thereof; b is an integer from 0 to 5; c is an integer from 2 to 10; d is an integer from 1 to 9; and x is an integer from 1 to 6.
Patent GB-2186526-A (GB)
Title: Cover for binding documents
Inventor: FREESTONE-BARKS DAVID
IPC: B42D3/00
Filed: 1986-09-24
Abstract: The cover comprises a front cover leaf 11 and a rear cover leaf 15 interconnected by a spine portion 12, the spine portion having applied to its internal surface a layer of flexible tear resistant reinforcement material 32 encapsulated within a band of hot melt adhesive 30. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2182905-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for controlling the position of webs or conveyor belts relative to associated guide or deflecting rollers
Inventor: BRINKMEIER FRIEDHELM
IPC: B65G39/16
Filed: 1986-11-05
Abstract: Apparatus for controlling the position of webs or endless conveyor belts (1) in a lateral direction relative to associated guide and/or deflecting rollers comprises an aligning roller (4), freely rotatably mounted in a guide fork (12) pivoted on a pivot (14) which is at right angles to the plane of the web (1). Said guide fork (12) is connected by transmitting means (20, 27) to scanning rollers (25, 26) which scan the side edges of the web (1) and in response to a lateral wandering of the web adjust the aligning roller (4) in a restoring sense. The scanning rollers (25, 26) are mounted on a carrier (20), which extends approximately parallel to the aligning roller (4), and is mounted for movement in the longitudinal direction of the carrier. The carrier (20) is pivoted at least at one end portion by a link (27) to that journal (9) of the axle (7) that is disposed on the same side of the web (1). The link (27) is outwardly inclined from the point at which it is pivoted to the carrier (20). The link when viewed in the direction of travel of the web includes with the edge of the web an angle which is smaller than 90 DEG . <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2202511-A (GB)
Title: Easily validated coupon
Inventor: BURKE PETER DAVID
IPC: G09F3/02
Filed: 1986-11-18
Abstract: A coupon (3), e.g. a "money off this purchase" coupon, has - in order to be valid - to be attached by the user to the relevant product before the value of the offer can be claimed. A self-adhesive anchor piece (1) provides the means of attachment and the linkage (2) between the anchor (1) and the coupon (3) is broken at the point of sale by the cashier. While breaking the linkage the cashier will be able to verify that the coupon is valid for the product to which it has been linked. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2184982-A (GB)
Title: Printing machines with multiple liquid supplying trains
Inventor: GHISALBERTI LUIGI
IPC: B41F23/08
Filed: 1986-12-02
Abstract: A printing machine is provided with a plurality of liquid supplying trains, such adapted for a particular kind of liquid, and the arrangement of the rollers being adaptable to change the machine as required. As shown in Fig. 1:-     (a) conventional inking is via rollers 3,4,5,6,12,13; (b) conventional dampening is via rollers 2,8,9,10,11 with roller 7 interlinking rollers 2 and 3. (c) supplying mobile water- miscible liquid (e.g. U.V. paint) via at least rollers 2,8,9,10,11. If desired roller 1 can also mediate between roller 10 and the cylinder A. (d) supplying viscous water- miscible liquid (e.g. acrylic paint) via rollers 1 and 15.   Sequences for the interengagement of rollers during start-up, dwell, etc., are given. A circulation system for (U.V. paints is described, whereby the paint may be heated. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2184939-A (GB)
Title: Luggage case and method of manufacture
Inventor: JENKS KENNETH WILLIAM
IPC: A45C5/02
Filed: 1986-12-31
Abstract: The body of a luggage case is formed from a tubular ring (3) of self-supporting sheet material, for example an adhesively bonded paper composition material, having a decorative covering 12 applied to it, to which a closing panel (7) of sheet material having one or more peripheral flanges (25) is fitted and secured to its one end at the flange or flanges so that a continuous circumferential wall and one side wall are provided. A trim strip (15) applied to the edge of that end of the tubular ring (3) has an internal step (20) which locates the panel (7). Fittings of the luggage case are secured to the tubular ring (3) and to the peripheral flange or flanges (25). A lining is attached inside the tubular ring and panel. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2189949-A (GB)
Title: Insulation for terminating screened power cable
Inventor: COOPER JOHN
IPC: H02G15/068
Filed: 1987-04-28
Abstract: In terminating a three-core screened power cable PC, each core of the cable is fitted with an insulating tube 16 by heat-recovery over an exposed end length of its screen 12 and is also fitted with an anti-tracking tube 18 by heat- recovery over an exposed end length of its insulation 10. The screen 12 is maintained for a substantial distance along each core thereby avoiding core-to-core electrical stresses and also the required length of anti- tracking tube is minimised. A stress control tube (14) may cover the end of the screen (12) and the insulation (10) near the end of the screen. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2191270-A (GB)
Title: Fluid pressure relief valve
Inventor: SEARLE ROBIN HARRY JAMES
IPC: F16K31/00
Filed: 1987-05-18
Abstract: A fluid pressure relief valve (11), for use in an oxygen partial pressure monitor (12), includes a valve head (14) axially movable between closed and open (as shown) positions, a rolling diaphragm (30) adapted to close a fluid passageway, including holes (28) in head (14), through the valve when the valve head is in the closed position, and spring means (26) operative to retain the valve head in either of the open or closed positions. An outer end (17) of the valve head protrudes from a housing when in the open position to provide an indication of valve operation. The valve is reset by pressure on end (17). The spring means comprises a compression spring (26) located around a pin (23) and is snap-acting <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2195011-A (GB)
Title: Thermal regenerators
Inventor: WILLS BRIAN
IPC: F23L15/02
Filed: 1987-05-19
Abstract: A furnace is fired by two burners fired alternately, wherein each burner includes a chamber (19) containing heat storage bodies 26 which extract heat from hot products of combustion from the furnace flowing through the burner during one part of a cycle of operation and yield up that heat to incoming combustion air during a further firing part of the cycle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2191162-A (GB)
Title: Rail bogie sidebearer
Inventor: RICE ALEXANDER JAMES
IPC: B61F5/14
Filed: 1987-06-03
Abstract: A sidebearer for control of sideways tilting motion of the body of a railway vehicle mounted on a bogie, while at the same time allowing the bogie to pivot smoothly beneath the body when negotiating curves in the railway track comprises a baseplate, rigidly attached to the upper surface of a central bolster of the bogie, having a circular bore therethrough, a top plate disposed above the baseplate and having, in its undersurface, a circular recess and received into its upper surface a bearing plate, and, accommodated between the baseplate bore and the top plate recess on elastomeric spring means. In use on a bogie, two inventive side bearers are symmetrically disposed one each side of the centre pivot of the bogie. Such sidebearers have especial application to the bogies of railway vehicles of goods trains, such as bulk hopper wagons. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2207503-A (GB)
Title: Boiling detection device
Inventor: DAY STEPHEN ROLAND
IPC: G05D23/275
Filed: 1987-07-18
Abstract: A device for the detection of the boiling of a liquid in a vessel, such as a domestic kettle 1, comprises: a sound pressure sensor 4 placed within the kettle 1 to detect vibration within the kettle 1, the sound pressure sensor 4 including a transducer to generate electrical signals from the sound impulses of the vibration; means 5,6, to process said electrical signals such that the sound impulses characteristic of the liquid at boiling point are distinguishable from other sound impulses present in the kettle 1, to produce a 'boiling detected' signal; and a control means 14, 15 for a heating element 3 placed within the kettle 1, the control means 14, 15 being responsive to the 'boiling detected' signal, to switch off the heating element 3. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2208991-A (GB)
Title: Fish cages
Inventor: WANG YUAN-KAI
IPC: A01K61/60
Filed: 1987-08-25
Abstract: A floatable fish cage has a double-doored cover 10 which is made from a floatable material. The rim 10 of the cage has an opening 11 in which double doors 20 are pivotally mounted for upward and downward movement. A pair of latch blocks 30 are symmetrically located on opposite sides of the opening 11 with each of the paired latch blocks 30 disposed above and under the cover 10 so that the double doors 20 can be selectively locked in either way, in particular such that the double door 20 can be automatically closed when the cage is plunged into water by buoyancy to prevent fish from escaping from the cage, and automatically opened by its own weight when the cage is taken out of water to allow fish to be placed in the cage. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2206919-A (GB)
Title: Anti-pick lock mechanism
Inventor: TESONE JEFFREY M
IPC: E05B55/12
Filed: 1988-06-03
Abstract: A lock mechanism includes sliding bolt 50 which is deadlocked in the extended position by a locking member 68. To prevent a shim-type pick device from being introduced alongside the bolt to release the member 68, the bolt is provided with barrier walls 18 a, b, c, d. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2209184-A (GB)
Title: Semi-automatic twistlock
Inventor: NUTTALL JOHN RICHARD
IPC: F16B21/04
Filed: 1988-06-24
Abstract: A semi-automatic twistlock device for lifting or securing containers and cargo platforms via corner fittings. It comprises the twistlock body 1 and collar 3 that locates in corner fitting aperture, the twistlock 2 and twistlock mechanism 4. To insert the device into corner fitting aperture the handle 15 is rotated against the force exerted by the helical torsion spring 20 to a stopped position whereupon the retaining head 11 is 'aligned' with the collar 3. When released, after insertion, the retaining head 11 rotates to the stopped 'crossed' position under the action of the restoring torque produced by the helical spring. The twistlock remains in the 'crossed' position and can only be withdrawn by rotating the handle against the spring back to the 'aligned' position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2221315-A (GB)
Title: Coin freed machines
Inventor: SMYTH RICHARD EDWARD
IPC: G07F9/08
Filed: 1988-07-28
Abstract: A coin-freed machine such as a poker machine having within it a coin hopper (15) or other coin dispenser for receiving and dispensing coins from the machine, the machine, including the hopper or coin dispenser, being contained with a cabinet (10) access to the interior of which is through an openable door (11), characterised in that the hopper or coin dispenser (15) is mounted on a load cell (8) the electrical output from which is used to provide a reading indicative of the value of coins in the hopper or coin dispenser (15). Preferably the cabinet (10) is provided with a side flap (12) set in the side of the cabinet (10) whereby the coins can be inserted into the hopper or coin dispenser (15) without opening the door 11. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2212105-A (GB)
Title: Screen printing machine
Inventor: SZARKA SANDOR
IPC: B41F15/08
Filed: 1988-10-07
Abstract: In a turret-type multi-station screen printing machine wherein the material to be printed is carried on pallets 14 at the end of radial arms 13 associated with an indexably-rotatable column 12, the screen printing frame assemblies (16-23), Fig 1, are disposed in a common plane above the pallets and are integrated into a boxlike rigid skeletal machine frame with the base 11. Thus, there are extensions 45 to the base, vertical standards 43, radial beams 27 and a central cap 24 incorporating the bearing for the column 12. In an alternative embodiment, Fig 17, the multi-station machine is linear with a web of fabric to be printed passing through a similar rigid skeletal framework interconnecting all the printing frames with each other and with the base. Each printing frame incorporates a carriage for flood bars and squeegee blades, with actuators correlating the up-and-down movement of the bars and blades with the raising and lowering of the screen into engagement with the material. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2213211-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for snap-fitting ball bearings into a bearing cage
Inventor: DAVIES BRIAN ANTHONY
IPC: F16C43/08
Filed: 1989-03-06
Abstract: A method and apparatus for snap-fitting a ball bearing 12 into a location 15 in a bearing cage 10 comprises moving the cage 10 into a channel 24 defining a path of movement, delivering the ball bearing to the location in the cage via an oblique chute 25, moving the cage and hence the ball bearing further along the path of movement to trap the ball between a wall 26 of the channel and the cage, and moving the cage and ball bearing through a tapering portion 27 of the channel to force the ball snap-fittingly into the location in the cage. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2221989-A (GB)
Title: Modifiable detergent compounds and their use in assays
Inventor: SWITCHENKO ARTHUR C
IPC: C09K23/00
Filed: 1989-07-24
Abstract: A method for temporarily increasing the hydrophilic properties of a material, such as a microbial antigen or antibody thereto, comprises contacting the material with a detergent compound containing a modifiable group and subsequently modifying said group (e.g. by cleavage, oxidation or reduction) by addition of a suitable reagent so as to decrease or destroy the detergent properties of said compound. The method may be used to prepare an analyte for assay, subsequent removal of the detergent being made more efficient or even eliminated by means of the modifying reagent. Detergent compounds of general formula CH3(CH2)n-A- (CH2)mOW (or their salts) where A is -S- or -S-CH=CH-; W is H or SO3H; and n is 2-4 and m is 6-11 when A is -S- or n and m are each 1-10 when A is -S-CH=CH- are also claimed.