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Patent GB-2163538-A (GB)
Title: A small transportable container for chilled or frozen products or for products requiring controlled atmospheres or environments
Inventor: GOODALL PETER FRANK
IPC: F25D3/10
Filed: 1984-07-03
Abstract: A small container has a body and a separate unit(s) (cassette/s) housing the vessels containing the cooling, heating or atmospheric mediums required and the appropriate and necessary controls. The cassette(s) are releasably secured to the body and may be removed for the recharging of the vessels or replacement by similar cassettes having already recharged vessels. The desired temperature or atmosphere in the body of the container may also be created and maintained by exterior sources of the mediums used, other than cassettes, using the same inlets provided in the body for the cassette(s). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2146063-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to door or window fasteners
Inventor: BUCKLEY JOHN EDWARD
IPC: E05B45/06
Filed: 1984-08-16
Abstract: A door or window fastener has a handle 12 pivoted on a base 10. The handle 12 incorporates a steel insert 22 and the base 10 incorporates a permanent magnet 23 and a Hall effect sensor 24. Relative movement of the handle 12 and base 10 causes a charge in voltage and current in the sensor 24 which is used to initiate a burglar alarm. In an alternative embodiment a permanent magnet in the handle is employed to operate a reed switch in the base. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2163962-A (GB)
Title: Breathing apparatus for underwater swimming or diving
Inventor: JAN RONG JACY
IPC: B63C11/20
Filed: 1984-09-07
Abstract: A breathing apparatus for underwater swimming or diving comprises a ventilating pipe (1) formed with a cylindrical chamber (20), a buoyancy block (18) disposed into the cylindrical chamber (20), a plug (13) force-fitted on the top of the cylindrical chamber, a sleeve (14) force-fitted with the center hole of the plug, a rubber tubing (16) connected with the lower end of the sleeve, a movable member (15) having a notch, a cap (11) threadedly engaged with the top of the ventilating pipe (1), a float body (2) on which is mounted the ventilating pipe (1), a hose (3) threadedly engaged with the ventilating pipe (1), and a mouthpiece (4) threadedly engaged with the hose. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2148974-A (GB)
Title: Safe with replaceable lock
Inventor: STEVENSON DAVID GRAHAM RUSSEL
IPC: E05B9/08
Filed: 1984-10-25
Abstract: The invention provides a safe suitable for use in the hotel industry characterised in that a lock for the safe is removably mounted on the inside of the door. The lock 26 will preferably be slidingly receivable in a pocket-like bracket 24 in the door. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2150585-A (GB)
Title: Emulsion spreads containing granules of crystalline starch
Inventor: BODOR JANOS
IPC: A23D7/015
Filed: 1984-11-30
Abstract: Edible water-in-oil emulsion spreads with good organoleptic properties, particularly with regard to release of salt, are produced by incorporating in the emulsion at least 1 wt.% of native starch granules or agglomerates of native starch granules in the crystalline state, 80-100% of said granules having a diameter of less than 25 microns.
Patent GB-2179763-A (GB)
Title: Grilling apparatus
Inventor: MACARTHUR DOUGLAS COTT
IPC: G05D23/19
Filed: 1985-07-22
Abstract: A grilling apparatus for food has a set of heating elements for providing heat on each side of the food to be grilled and two spaced lattice members arranged one on each side of the food to slidably insert and remove the food from between the heating elements. A plurality of sets of heating elements may be provided so that more than one item of food may be prepared at the same time and an operator panel (3) connected to a microprocessor is arranged so that instructions may be inputted concerning the thickness of the food, the amount of cooking time and the required time whereupon the microprocessor is arranged to activate the heating elements such that the food for a particular place setting is completed at the same time. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2165501-A (GB)
Title: Air suspended vehicles
Inventor: DAVIS ROBERT CLIVE BROWNING
IPC: B60G13/00
Filed: 1985-10-11
Abstract: When a trailer has two or more axles, at least one of which has air suspension, substantial restraint strops are provided to prevent excess travel of the air suspended axle(s) away from the trailer chassis which can otherwise occur in certain modes of operation. One such mode occurs in roll on-roll off operations of the trailer. When the trailer 2 passes over the top of a gradient 3 the rear axle drops to a free in air position, forced downwardly by pressure of air in its associated air springs. This pressure may be enhanced if the leading axles are also air suspended and the air springs on each side of the trailer are pneumatically interconnected. The invention obviates the need for restraint strops by replacing the conventional shock absorbers and their mountings by strengthened shock absorbers and mountings able to withstand the applied loads in the modes of operation referred to. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2168369-A (GB)
Title: New 2,4-dinitro anilines useful as hair dyes
Inventor: JUNINO ALEX
IPC: C09B51/00
Filed: 1985-12-13
Abstract: 2,4-Dinitro-6-hydroxyalkylanilines of formula (I> <IMAGE>  wherein: X is an unsubstituted or a mono- or polyhydroxy substituted branched or unbranched alkylene of 2 to 6 carbon atoms; R is hydrogen, (C1-4)-alkyl, mono- or polyhydroxy-(C1-4)-alkyl, amino-(C1-4)-alkyl or mono- or disubstituted amino-(C1-4)-alkyl wherein each substituent is (C1-4)-alkyl, mono- or polyhydroxy (C1-4)-alkyl or the nitrogen atom and at least one substituent form part of a heterocyclic system;  R' is hydrogen or (C1-4)-alkyl; or cosmetically acceptable salts of such compounds containing a salifiable amine group are useful as direct dyes for human hair.
Patent GB-2194579-A (GB)
Title: Door seal
Inventor: HENDERSON WILLIAM IAIN MACKIE
IPC: H05K9/00
Filed: 1986-08-30
Abstract: A seal to avoid penetration of electromagnetic interference comprises a tortuous path of interfitting grooves and ridges on the door and frame and in which rubber seals 28 covered with a metal braid 19A fit into the base of the grooves and are compressed, when the door is closed. The faces 18,19 of this ridge converge less rapidly towards its end than elsewhere i.e. towards point P1 rather than point P2. This causes a wiping action of the ridge against the braid serving to remove oxidation and ensuring a good electrical contact. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2197573-A (GB)
Title: An agricultural implement
Inventor: DEAN MALCOLM
IPC: A01C7/08
Filed: 1986-10-30
Abstract: An agricultural implement comprises a frame (1), a beam (3) that is mounted on the frame (1) so as to extend transversely of the direction of forward motion of the implement having a plurality of tools (4) mounted along the beam so as to engage the ground when in work, the beam comprising a central beam portion (3') and an outer beam portions (3'') connected to the central beam portion so as to be movable to a transport position, and first fluid actuator means (8) adapted to raise or lower the tools into working engagement with the ground, and second fluid actuator means (12) adapted to move the outer beam portions (3'') to the transport position, characterised in that said first and second fluid actuator means are connected in a fluid control system with a manually operable valve (29) which in a first position connects the second fluid actuator means (12) to the same fluid supply line (27) as the first fluid actuator means (8) so that both can be operated simultaneously to raise the tools (14) and move the outer beam portions (3'') to the transport position, the required operating pressure of the first fluid actuator means (8) being lower than that of the second fluid actuator means (12) so that the tools are raised before the outer beam portions are moved to the transport position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2183662-A (GB)
Title: Transformed myeloma cell-line and a process for the expression of a gene coding for a eukaryotic polypeptide employing same
Inventor: KENTEN JOHN HENRY
IPC: C12N15/09
Filed: 1986-04-01
Abstract: A myeloma cell-line transformed with a vector including a gene coding for a eukariotic polypeptide and a non-immunoglobulin promoter such that expression occurs of the gene coding for the eukariotic polypeptide, directed by the non-immunoglobulin promoter. The promoter may be a viral promoter, such as an SV40 promoter, a Rous sarcoma virus long terminal repeat or a Moloney murine leukemia long terminal repeat, or a non-viral promoter such as the mouse metallothionein promoter. Rat and mouse host myeloma cell-lines such as the rat YB2/3.0 Ag20 hybridoma, the mouse SP-20 Ag hybridoma and the mouse NSO hybridoma are employed. The production of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) is exemplified.
Patent GB-2185723-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to tow bars for vehicles
Inventor: WITTER RODNEY BRIAN
IPC: B60D1/46
Filed: 1986-12-03
Abstract: The provision of a tow bar on a vehicle, at the prescribed standard height, especially on off-road vehicle, can cause problems with ground clearance, especially in relation to the departure angle. In order to alleviate this problem, the present invention provides for the towing attachment/ball to be attachable releasable to a tow bar mounting whereby the departure angle can be increased by releasing or repositioning the towing attachment/ball. Conveniently, the ball is secured to a carrier plate 13 and a pair of pins 21 with quick release clips 23 are employed to release and/or secure the carrier to the mounting in a selected one of several positions. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2185229-A (GB)
Title: Automatic tie gun
Inventor: AVISON GERALD
IPC: B65B27/10
Filed: 1984-09-19
Abstract: A gun for applying cable ties includes a pivoted gate 34 having an entry slot 38 for receiving a bandolier 1 of side-by-side ties in which they are interconnected at their heads and tail tips by continuous strips running along the edges of the bandolier. A slotted indexing drum 30 engages the ties of the bandolier to advance the bandolier into the gun, successive ties being cut from the bandolier by fixed blades 40 whilst leaving the two strips intact. The gate 34 may be pivoted away from the indexing drum 30 for each new bandolier to be inserted until its leading tie to located at a predetermined position passed a pair of spring-biassed pawls 39, closing of the gate bring the leading tie into one of the index drum slots. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2202759-A (GB)
Title: Filter
Inventor: FLORANCE DOUGLAS GORDON
IPC: B01D29/39
Filed: 1987-03-28
Abstract: A filter for a drilling brine filtering unit comprises an open rectangular frame (1) closed on each side by a rectangular lamination of filtering material (5-8). In order to support the laminations against fluid pressure while minimising resistance to fluid flow within the filter a plurality of helical springs (9) with open convolutions is packed side-by-side within the filter and between the laminations. Outflow from the filter is via a hollow spigot (10) extending from a bottom member (3) of the frame (1) into an opening in a header pipe (11) from which a plurality of such filters upstand within a vessel of the said unit. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2193677-A (GB)
Title: Core drill bit
Inventor: STRONG WILLIAM GEORGE MICHAEL
IPC: E21B10/48
Filed: 1987-07-03
Abstract: A core drill bit has a cylindrical body part adapted to be held at one end in the throat of a rotary percussion drill. The body part of the bit is formed adjacent the free end surface 21 with chordal passages 27. Circumferentially distributed slots 19 respectively transect the passages 27. The walls of the chordal passage portion 27b extending from the trailing wall portions of the several said slots 19 are each internally threaded. Cutter tips 23 each have an aperture as 25 extending therethrough and communicating between the chordal passage portions 27a and 27b. The cutter tips 23 are each releasably secured with respect to the body part by threaded male fastener elements 29 which enter the apertures 25 and engage the threaded internal wall portions of the passages 27b. The heads 31 abutment portions 31 (Fig. 3) or 29a (Figs. 7,8) bear against the cutter tips 23 under screw tension. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2211592-A (GB)
Title: Lampshade
Inventor: BROWN JOHN DAVID MICHAEL
IPC: F21V1/06
Filed: 1987-10-28
Abstract: A lampshade assembly (10) is supplied as a kit of parts to make a less bulky package for a store or shop to sell. It comprises a boss (12) and four radial arms (14), assembled with screws to make a lampshade frame (22), and four curved glass panels (16). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2204454-A (GB)
Title: An improved hand tool for stripping optical fibres
Inventor: KACZMARSKI EDWARD ZBIGNIEW
IPC: G02B6/245
Filed: 1988-04-14
Abstract: A hand tool for use in peeling from an optical fibre a coating of hard plastics material, e.g. an acrylic resin, comprises a tubular body 1 having at one end a guide 2 for the plastics coated optical fibre and a pair of handles 3 protruding beyond the guide which are pivotably mounted on the body about diametrically opposed axes 4, a pair of blades 11 being carried at the protruding ends 6 of the handles extend backwardly and inwardly towards the guide 2 and have co-operating cutting edges 23. Each cutting edge 23 is defined by a pair of surfaces 21, 22 inclined at acute angles to the body axis and lies tangential to the outer surface of an imaginary cylinder of circular cross-section coaxial with the body, a V-shaped groove 24 extending normal to the cutting edge. Springs 5 urge the protruding ends 6 of the pivotably mounted handles 3 towards the body axis. Adjustable element 16 acts as a stop, adjusting the depth of cut. Alternative blade forms are disclosed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2208327-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for handling consumable tooling and supplies
Inventor: HIGGINS LARRY GENE
IPC: G06Q10/08
Filed: 1987-11-18
Abstract: A method and a system for tracking the use of consumable items including a machine containing a supply of items, a memory and a program for ordering a selected item and means for entering data in the program to select the item to be dispensed. Means are also provided in the system for identifying the item dispensed and the user of the machine, and for generating an output of data for use in controlling the ordering, inventorying and tracking of the user of the dispensed consumable items. A printer can also be incorporated into the system for generating hard copy of the selected data in the machine memory or for creating current drawings or other documents needed by the machine user. Pneumatic matrix switching can be provided in the machine to control the pneumatic operation and dispensing of the selected item.
Patent GB-2223592-A (GB)
Title: A device for measuring flow
Inventor: GILL DAVID CHARLES
IPC: B05B15/00
Filed: 1988-09-05
Abstract: Fluid delivery equipment, for example for distributing herbicide, is calibrated to provide a correct flow rate by performing a test cycle in which the fluid flows into a measuring device for a predetermined time, after which the volume of fluid in the measuring device is established to determine whether or not the flow rate corresponds to the desired flow rate. The measuring device establishes a flow path having two reverse bends (36, 30) with the reverse bend (36) bypassed by a vent hole (32). The level of liquid in the measuring device after a test is, for example, established by means of a graduated scale provided on a card which is removably attached to a package containing the fluid to be distributed, a portion of a wall of the device being transparent to allow the liquid level to be viewed. Devices with passage (28) and hole (32) omitted are described. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2211420-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the destruction of hypodermic needles
Inventor: TALLURI ANTONIO
IPC: A61M5/32
Filed: 1988-10-24
Abstract: Used hypodermic needles are destroyed by the action of an electric current which melts the needle. A portable apparatus for safely and conveniently destroying hypodermic needles comprises a body 20 housing a battery 8. A stud 24 is mounted in the body 20 and is connected to a terminal of the battery. A removable head 28 attached to the body houses a pair of electrode rollers 34 below a bevelled access aperture 31. The rollers are biassed by a spring 38 or other suitable biassing means and are connected to the other terminal of the battery 8 via the body and the head. When a needle to be destroyed is inserted through the aperture 31 electrical contact is made so that current flows through the needle between the rollers 34 and the stud 24 causing the needle to melt. Thus the syringe and needle remains are sealed to prevent escape of any contaminated material from the syringe. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2212970-A (GB)
Title: Disc centering device
Inventor: GILLBANK ROBERT
IPC: G11B17/03
Filed: 1988-11-11
Abstract: A device for centering a floppy disc within a sleeve before insertion into a disc drive comprises a generally square member 10 with a support surface 11, a peripheral wall 13 having an inward facing slope 14, and a centrally located boss 15 which is frusto-conical with a slope 16, a floppy disc in its sleeve being placed on the member 10 with boss 15 entering the central hole of the disc. The sleeve is positioned by the slope 14 and the disc by the slope 16. An edge cut-out 17 aids manipulation of the floppy disc. Snagging of the disc aperture edges by the disc drive cone is countered. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2210586-A (GB)
Title: Ink-jet recording apparatus comprising heater and cap
Inventor: NAGATOMO AKIRA
IPC: B41J2/365
Filed: 1988-12-05
Abstract: In an ink-jet recording unit 100 having an emission energy generator 102 to form droplets under the action of a recording signal, a separate heater 120 is provided for heating the ink and a cap for coupling with the reoording unit, and control 200 allows the heater 120 to operate when the environmental conditions are improper for recording and further when a printing signal is not supplied within a predetermined period of time the control 200 stops the heating and caps the recording head. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2219012-A (GB)
Title: Tissue paper moistening apparatus
IPC: A47K10/32
Filed: 1986-12-11
Abstract: A tissue paper moistening apparatus, i.e. an apparatus dispensing dry or moist tissue paper from one and the same paper roll. The apparatus comprises a housing (1), inside which there are fitted a paper roll (14) and a shaft (6) thereof, a moistener (7), which is in form a flat, platelike member, the bottom surface whereof is provided with holes (16), and a plane (10) or the like located below the moistener (7). The paper web (15) to be pulled from the paper roll (14) is arranged to proceed out between the moistener (7) and the plane (10). When desired, the liquid is supplied onto the paper web (15) through the holes (16) of the moistener (7) section by section before the tissue strip, i.e. a section of the paper web, is pulled out.
Patent GB-2222360-A (GB)
Title: Key holder
Inventor: WONG YIN HONG
IPC: A44B15/00
Filed: 1989-06-27
Abstract: A key holder comprises an elongate connecting element e.g. a chain 5, for carrying keys 6, a base member 1, and a cap 2, the cap being removably attachable to the base member and the base member and the cap being adapted to cooperate with one another to form the shape of a hat and to provide means for the retention of the ends of the connecting element. The chain ends are captured in depressions 8 in base 1 when resilient lugs 10 on cap 2 are pressed into holes 9 opening into cavities (17, Fig 5a) in base 1. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2236491-A (GB)
Title: Mixing apparatus for solids and liquid waste
Inventor: WILLACY GEORGE
IPC: B28C9/04
Filed: 1989-10-07
Abstract: Transportable apparatus for mixing solids and liquids is in the form a container having therein a tank (4a) for the storage of solids, means for the supply of the solids and a liquid for a mixer (15), and means (25) for feeding the mixed material to the exterior of the container. The apparatus is particularly intended for use with industrial liquid and solid waste.
Patent GB-2224942-A (GB)
Title: Golf ball retriever
Inventor: GOODBOURN ALAN THOMAS
IPC: A63B47/02
Filed: 1989-10-25
Abstract: A golf ball retriever consists of a frame 12 which supports a number of thin discs 11 held apart to be separated by approximately the diameter of a golf ball. In use, the frame is pulled across a muddy surface and any golf balls in the path of the frame are urged between and held between respective of the discs 11. Some discs have apertures therein each of smaller diameter than that of the ball. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2239625-A (GB)
Title: Moulding a soft toy having deformable limbs
Inventor: CONRAD CONRAD JOHN
IPC: B29C70/70
Filed: 1990-01-08
Abstract: The soft toy figure such as a miniature horse, person, or bird is moulded by firstly moulding a pre-formed body blank of smaller dimensions than that of the toy body from inexpensive polymeric or other material e.g. polypropylene, with at least one e.g. two or four lengths of malleably bendable wire projecting therefrom and extending in the same general direction, and then locating the blank in a mould for the toy, whilst maintaining all parts of said blank spaced from the walls of said mould, and moulding a rubbery material e.g. a neoprene polypropylene compound, around the blank and wires to provide the outer body portion and limbs of the figure. The toy may be a horse, with the wires corresponding to the respective four horse legs, and the blank being located spaced from the toy mould walls, by two pegs and a knife which leave two apertures and a slit in the moulded toy, one of the apertures being plugged and a tail and a mane respectively being located in the remaining aperture and the slit.
Patent GB-2228847-A (GB)
Title: Method of making a mask for discriminating a fragment of image
Inventor: KORKIN MIKHAIL CRIGORIEVICH
IPC: G06T5/00
Filed: 1990-02-15
Abstract: The method provides for obtaining a corrected mask (5) on the basis of estimating the probability of whether image elements belong to the discriminated fragment (2) or to the background image by means of calculation, in an elementary area, of the number of elements of each recorded combination of colour-differentiated signals separately for the internal and external sides of the boundary (3) and comparison of the share of said elements in the total number of elements in the elementary area. The method may be preferably used in the case of discriminating a fragment of an image with a complex contour, in particular, in polygraphy when mounting several originals on a single reproduction, as well as in cartography, cinematography, television and animated cartoons.
Patent GB-2231232-A (GB)
Title: Imaging or measuring using an incoherent fibre optic bundle
Inventor: BREARLEY MARTIN ALAN
IPC: G02B6/06
Filed: 1990-02-19
Abstract: Light from a field of view 3 is transmitted via an incoherent fibre optic bundle 5 to a CCD detector array 9. To reproduce a meaningful image the array output is subjected 11 to a restoration function which is dedicated to the bundle in use and is derived for example by scanning a laser spot over the input end of the bundle and determining which output point or group of points are instantaneously bright. In a high resolution measurement system a laser curtain is directed at a linear array of fibres which converge to a bundle; processing of the incoherent output gives a size of an object between the light source and bundle. Size may alternatively be determined from the number of fibres on which incident light does not fall. <IMAGE>