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Patent GB-2202580-A (GB)
Title: Sliding roof for motor vehicle
Inventor: DESFORGES PATRICK
IPC: B60J7/043
Filed: 1987-03-25
Abstract: A sliding roof assembly for a vehicle comprises a frame bounding an opening in a vehicle roof and having a pair of side members each of which forms a guide track and extends along the side edge of and behind said opening above the vehicle roof. A panel is supported on the guide tracks for movement between a forward position closing the opening and a position rearwardly of the opening. Means for securing the panel in any desired position between its forward and rearward positions comprise a respective block 76 of resilient synthetic material located in each of the guide tracks so as to be in frictional engagement between a surface 34 of such guide track and a surface 44 of the panel. Control means 62 for each block 76 having means 72 for applying a longitudinal force to the block 76, are arranged to vary the frictional engagement between the block 76 and the track and the panel. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2189562-A (GB)
Title: Method for connecting together lengths of pipe in addition to join and lengths of pipe manufactured with said method
Inventor: TERHOEVE FRANCISCUS CORNELIS
IPC: F16L55/16
Filed: 1986-09-04
Abstract: Interior coated pipes are connected together by elastic and plastic deformation of pipe ends (1, 2) by detonating an explosive charge (4). When this explosion takes place the coatings of the two pipe ends are joined to each other by means of a bridging ring.
Patent GB-2220679-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for thin film deposition of aerosol particles by thermolytic decomposition
Inventor: JOHNSON EDWARD WILLIAM
IPC: C23C18/02
Filed: 1987-09-09
Abstract: The apparatus comprises aerosol generator means (1) for forming an aerosol of particles to be deposited on a substrate, particle size selector means (2) for controlling the size of the particles in the aerosol, a thermal reaction zone (4) in which the substrate is coated, and exhaust control means (6), the thin film deposition apparatus being such that in operation the substrate to be coated moves transversely of the direction of flow of the particles to the reaction zone (4). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2211881-A (GB)
Title: Connecting means
Inventor: JAMES BARRY DAVID
IPC: A47C7/62
Filed: 1987-10-31
Abstract: A connecting means for enabling the connection of a support (30) for a floral arrangement to be connected to an article e.g. the back (41) of a chair (40) comprises a stem portion (11) to which a connecting part (22) which carries connecting means (28) for connection to the floral support (30) is separably connectable in any one of a number of different positions. The connecting means (10) having a resilient part (16) that enables it to be secured to the back (41) of a chair (40), the plurality of connecting formations provided on the stem portion (11) of connecting means (10) and connecting part (22) enables the floral support member to be positioned in a number of different positions and the resilient member (16) enables the connecting means (10) to be connected to a variety of different sizes and shape of article. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2215607-A (GB)
Title: Spinal traction device
Inventor: BHATTACHERJEE SHYAMENDU
IPC: A61F5/02
Filed: 1988-03-25
Abstract: A spinal traction device has upper and lower belts (10, 12) which will be secured about axially spaced regions of a subject's torso and a number of bracing units (22) each unit being resiliently extendable as by a compression spring (28). The units are secured in compression between the belts in use so as to exert continuous dynamic traction force on a zone of the subject's spinal column between the belts in wear. The number and units and their positioning about the belts may be selected as required and individual fine adjustment of the force supplied by each unit may be effected by a screw adjustment device (32). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2219886-A (GB)
Title: Recording and playback apparatus
Inventor: ROTH RUDOLF
IPC: G11B7/007
Filed: 1988-06-15
Abstract: A record carrying a series of items can have recorded on it by a user instructions which, whenever the record is played back thereafter, determine the selection of items preferred by the user and their sequence of play. The record is preferably an erasable optical disc. A number of users of the same record can record personal selection/sequence instructions associated with a user code. Any selected item may be repeated in a sequence. The instructions may be recorded using the Q subcode in the compact disc format.
Patent GB-2208182-A (GB)
Title: Body testing
Inventor: SWARBRICK PHILIP
IPC: G01N27/72
Filed: 1988-07-01
Abstract: A wheel 16 is rolled against a car body and, when the metal beneath the paint of the car body is sufficiently deep, and sufficiently close to the surface of the car body the magnetic force exerted between that metal and a magnet 12 causes the magnet to move in the left, against the action of a spring 28, to cause a contact arm 22 to move against a further contact 32. When the wheel moves over a portion of a vehicle where the metal is non-existent, or relatively thin, or spaced some distance from the surface of the vehicle, the magnetic force holding the magnet against the contact 32 is no longer sufficient to overcome the force of the spring 28 and the spring causes the magnet to be brought back to the position shown so that the contact arm abuts the contact 26 and the indication of the unsatisfactory state of the body is given. Various arrangements of magnets, springs and contacts are described together with means for adjustment of the spacing between the magnet and body. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2207797-A (GB)
Title: Copy protected pre-recorded videotape
Inventor: TAKAHASHI YASUNORI
IPC: G11B20/00
Filed: 1988-07-29
Abstract: A copy protection arrangement for pre-recorded videotape cassettes. The invention includes both a method of protecting and a protected videotape cassette. Copy protection is provided by recording on at least a portion of the original videotape a composite synchronizing signal including a vertical synchronizing pulse having a pulse width in the range of 1-20 micro-seconds and a pulse height discernible by a vertical synchronizing signal separating circuit of the television receiver. All other vertical synchronizing pulses in the vertical synchronizing signal partition, all the equalizing pulses in a equalizing signal partition following the vertical synchronizing signal partition and at least a part of the horizontal synchronizing pulses in a horizontal synchronizing signal partition following the equalizing signal partition in the composite synchronizing signal having respective pulse height less than a predetermined pedestal level of the synchronizing signals.
Patent GB-2222650-A (GB)
Title: Safety shield for controls on a cabinet
Inventor: AZIZ ERDINC
IPC: D06F39/14
Filed: 1988-08-18
Abstract: A safety shield to prevent children tampering with the top transverse horizontal row of controls on a typical washing machine 1 comprises side plates 6 with upper aligned orifices 6a, 7a for receiving upper retention studs 15 and lower aligned orifices 6b, 7b for axis studs 12. Studs 15 can be simultaneously retracted from engagement because they are each mounted on a flexible tongue 13, but this simultaneous manipulation to expose the controls for use (upon downward pivoting about studs 12) is not achievable by a small child. The hinge arrangement at 12 can if desired be replaced by an integral scored hinged line, another retention arrangement at 15 may if desired be replaced by structure disengageable from the top surface of the machine cabinet, at its front marginal region, (Fig 3). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2213474-A (GB)
Title: Card feeder
Inventor: SILLS ALLAN WALTER
IPC: B65H3/24
Filed: 1989-01-05
Abstract: A card feeder has a carriage (6) reciprocatingly movable on a slide (4). The carriage has a card engager (19) and an actuator (27) for raising the card engager on forwards movement of the carriage and lowering it on return movement, the actuator (27) pivoting the drive member (18) about axis (16) to raise and lower the card engager (19). The upper cards in the stack (2) are preferably held up by presser (12) to relieve pressure on the lower cards in the stack. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2215665-A (GB)
Title: Printing plate registration
Inventor: JONES JOHN F
IPC: B41F27/00
Filed: 1989-02-01
Abstract: In addition to images 2, flexographic printing plates are provided with relief datum structures 4, possibly in the form of chevrons along a marginal edge. These datum structures can be provided photographically from original artwork at the same time as the image areas; in muiti-colour work, the artwork may be common to all the plates to ensure that the datum structures are positioned identically. The datum structures may mate with complementary indented formations on the base plate of a hole-drilling tool, or with such formations provided on the underside of a registration bar associated with a printing press cylinder. Thus, although holes may be drilled through both the flexographic surface sheet 1 and the dimensionally stable film backing 3, (Fig 2), to serve as registration devices for the mounting of the plates on the press cylinders, these are not essential when the registration bar is itself provided with the complementary formations, (Fig 10). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2222871-A (GB)
Title: Heating boiler installations
Inventor: LANE ASHLEY GWILYM CHARLES
IPC: F24H9/06
Filed: 1989-09-13
Abstract: In a method of installing a heating boiler 12 in a cavity wall 2 having inner and outer walls 4, 6 respectively, and a cavity 8, an opening 10 is made in one or other or both of the walls 4 and 6 and the heating boiler 12 is mounted in the opening 10 such that it extends into the region of the cavity 8, thereby substantially reducing the amount it projects from the cavity wall 2. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2225277-A (GB)
Title: Method of fabricating fiber reinforced composite articles by resin transfer molding
Inventor: REACELY RICHARD T
IPC: B29C70/30
Filed: 1989-11-02
Abstract: Fiber reinforced composite articles may be fabricated from stabilized dry fiber preforms which are impregnated with a thermosetting resin by the resin transfer molding method. The dry fiber preforms may be stabilized prior to molding by dispersing a polymeric binder between adjacent dry fabric plies of the preform. Hot air is passed through the preform to fuse the binder and bind the dry fabric plies together, forming a stabilized fiber preform. Forming a preform by this method is significantly less labor and time intensive than methods currently in use.
Patent GB-2226119-A (GB)
Title: Combined liquefied gas evaporator-gas pressure regulator
Inventor: DIMITROV ANGEL YORDANOV
IPC: F02M21/02
Filed: 1989-12-15
Abstract: A combined liquefied gas evaporator-gas pressure regulator comprises a housing (1) having inlet (2) and outlet (15) fuel conduits connected respectively to high pressure (A) and low pressure (B) reduction chambers in the housing with a first spring loaded valve (10, 11, 12) being provided between the two reduction chambers and with the two reduction chambers additionally being communicable through a third chamber (C) for use during idling of an internal combustion engine to which connection of the outlet fuel conduit is made, in use, which third chamber includes control means (18, 19) for closing off entry thereinto of gas from the high pressure reduction chamber which is itself provided with preheating means for liquefied gas supplied as fuel, in use, to the inlet fuel conduit (2) to promote evaporation of the liquefied gas in the high pressure reduction chamber, a second spring loaded valve (3, 4, 5) communicating the high pressure reduction chamber (A) with the inlet fuel conduit (2) in which regulator, each of the high pressure and low pressure reduction chambers and the third chamber is spanned by a diaphragm, with the diaphragms (6, 13) in the high pressure and low pressure reduction chambers being positioned to actuate operation of said first spring loaded valve and the control means (18, 19) for closing off communication between the high pressure reduction chamber (A) and the third chamber (C) a control (22) screw disposed below the diaphragm (18) of the third chamber and drivable by spring means (19) against the diaphragm of the third chamber. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2229141-A (GB)
Title: Tripping perfect offset presses
Inventor: BOWMAN KENNETH ALBERT
IPC: B65H45/18
Filed: 1990-04-12
Abstract: The printing nip of a web-fed perfecting offset press is opened by the withdrawal of one of the blanket cylinders (44) in a direction generally perpendicular to the (in use) line of centres of the two blanket cylinders (43, 44). The other blanket cylinder (43) is biassed to move away from its respective plate cylinder (45) when the first blanket cylinder (44) is so removed. A fluid pressure actuator (146) may be used to move the first blanket cylinder (44). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2230464-A (GB)
Title: Unbiassed dice having more than six faces
Inventor: EARDLEY ALFRED ALBERT CHARLES
IPC: A63F9/04
Filed: 1990-04-19
Abstract: Dice are disclosed which have more than six faces arranged in opposed pairs, the faces of each pair of opposed faces being substantially identical and with their centres substantially lying on an axis passing substantially through dice centre, the faces being formed as flats on a generally spherical body. In passing substantially through the dice centre the axes may be substantially symmetrically spaced one from the other or be arranged such that their angular spacing in both bearing and elevation is maximised. One embodiment provides that all the faces are similar and non-contiguous - preferably that all the faces are substantially identical and circular in plan. Dice are disclosed having fourteen and twenty six circular faces arranged in seven and thirteen opposed pairs with the axes joining opposed faces substantially symmetrically spaced one from the other. A die is disclosed having twenty six circular faces arranged in thirteen opposed pairs with the angular spacing in both bearing and elevation of the axes joining opposed faces maximised. Dice are disclosed the faces of which are contiguous and the shape of each in plan being selected from one of a number of differing substantially regular shapes and so configured that no two adjacent faces have the same substantially regular shape. One form of this die has six substantially identical square faces, eight substantially identical equisided triangular faces, and twelve substantially identical rectangular faces. Dice embodying the invention may be formed by moulding a plastics material, or by machining the faces thereof from a sphere of moulded plastics or other material; and the faces be provided with any desired indicia - symbols, letters, numerals or the like by cutting, etching or engraving.
Patent GB-2238859-A (GB)
Title: Glass-melting pot
Inventor: KELTER SEAN
IPC: C03B5/08
Filed: 1990-05-03
Abstract: A pot primarily of fire clay construction and suitable for use at temperatures of between 1200 DEG C and 1800 DEG C which pot comprises a base (12), upstanding side walls (14), a rear wall, a front wall (13) and a roof (15) which together define a chamber (11). A closable opening in one of the walls for the movement of material therethrough is also provided. The opening has a base portion (17), upstanding walls (18, 19) and a roof portion (20). At least part of the opening comprises a material other than fire clay capable of withstanding temperatures of between 1200 DEG C and 1800 DEG C. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the material other than fire clay is zircon mullite.
Patent GB-2237032-A (GB)
Title: Plating aluminium
Inventor: YARKOSKY EUGENE F
IPC: C23C18/31
Filed: 1990-10-12
Abstract: A method of producing smooth zinc coatings on aluminium substrates comprises forming a zinc or zinc alloy deposit on the substrate and then employing a nitric acid bath containing a source of Group VIII metal ions, eg ferric ions as a zinc remover. Optionally the step of forming the zinc or zinc alloy deposit on the substrate is repeated. The zinc deposit is preferably formed by electroless deposition. In an alternative embodiment a method of forming a metal coating, other than zinc, on an aluminium substrate having a zinc or zinc alloy coating comprises forming a metal coating by electroless plating using a metal plating composition comprising a source of metal ions, a source of cadmium ions and a reducing agent. The coated product may be used as a memory disc.
Patent GB-909443-A (GB)
IPC: A01D41/14
Abstract: 909,443. Combine harvesters. CLAAS, A., and CLAAS, F. [trading as CLAAS GEB.] March 13, 1959 [March 13, 1958], No. 8882/59. Class 6(3). A harvester, table 1, of the type which is pivoted on the frame 4 of the harvester about a horizontal transverse axis 3 and is adjustable by a hydraulic jack 5, is characterized in that a telescopic guide is provided between the table and the piston of the jack, and a spring 12 is mounted around the guide resiliently to support the table. The jack-piston 7 has a longitudinal bore in which a rod 8 is freely slidable, the rod being pivoted at 9 to the table. The spring is mounted between abutments 10, 11 on the piston and rod respectively, the abutment 10 being adjustable to vary the spring- loading. Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 864,861.
Patent GB-2253814-A (GB)
Title: Folding trailer
Inventor: SCOTT GLYN
IPC: B62D63/06
Filed: 1991-03-22
Abstract: A box trailer made so that while still connected to vehicle, can be lifted clear of the road, and chassis and box folded. The wheels when the trailer is folded become positioned near rear of trailer. When folded the trailer is lowered to the ground, and disengaged from vehicle. The advantage of a folded trailer being that, when folded it can be wheeled by hand, through a standard house gateway, and be easily stored. When the trailer is to be used, it is fastened to vehicle, lifted by the legs 16, clear of road, and opened. Then the legs are lifted and the wheels allowed to be in contact with road. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2256252-A (GB)
Title: Manhandling pipes
Inventor: HARRISON GORDON
IPC: B25B9/00
Filed: 1991-05-31
Abstract: A pipe (1) has secured thereto or integrally moulded therewith at least one member (2, 4), at least a portion of the member extending outwards from the outer surface of the pipe, said member being shaped so that it can be gripped or held by the hand so as to be able to lift or move the pipe. The pipe may be of iron, copper, steel, polyethylene, polypropylene, PVC, polystyrene or acrylic. The pipe may comprise a sleeve, fitting or connector for use in fusion welding. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2264750-A (GB)
Title: Preventing unauthorised use of a vehicle fuel pump.
Inventor: NORTON ALAN
IPC: B60R25/042
Filed: 1992-03-05
Abstract: The pump 46, preferably mounted within a vehicle fuel tank, has a housing in which there is enclosed an electrical relay 44 closed upon receipt of a preset digital encoded electrical signal. the relay serving to isolate the fuel pump from its power supply. The digital signal may be produced by an optical key (10, Fig. 1) which is inserted into a reader (Figs. 2 and 3) which has two detectors (22, 24), one detecting a clock pattern (14) and the other a data pattern (16) on the key. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2256288-A (GB)
Title: Solenoid operated pressure regulating valve
Inventor: MCCABE RALPH PATRICK
IPC: F16K31/06
Filed: 1992-05-07
Abstract: A pressure control device, preferably for use in a control system of an automatic transmission of a motor vehicle, includes a solonoid motor assembly the armature, 56 of which, through a cooperating serve orifice 154, is effective for varying the magnitude of pressure of a fluid medium acting upon a spool slave-like valving member 124 which ultimately provides a fluid medium to an associated fluid medium receiving structure; a spring 88 normally urges the armature toward the serve orifice and an adjustable spring seat 80, formed of at least two pieces 81, 83, is operatively engaged with the spring. Magnetic flux members 44, 68 of the solenoid motor assembly are spaced by a minimum distance defined by a tubular sleeve 50 partly received within the member 44. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2261457-A (GB)
Title: Sealing system for in-ground barrier
Inventor: CHERRY JOHN ANTHONY
IPC: E02D5/14
Filed: 1992-09-17
Abstract: The joints between pile-driven sheet metal barrier elements (12, 14) have edge forms which interlock so as to form cavities (20, 21). The cavities extend from top to bottom of the barrier, and allow a flushing hose to be inserted to the foot of the barrier. Sealant is injected when the cavity is flushed clean. Two cavities are provided side by side at each joint. The cavities are independently sealed for extra reliability.
Patent GB-2260780-A (GB)
Title: Infant-restraining protective seat having inflatable seat belt
Inventor: KAMIYAMA MISAO
IPC: G01P15/00
Filed: 1992-10-21
Abstract: An infant-restraining protective seat has an inflatable seat belt (6) and a chest-contact pad (7). The infant seat belt (6) comprises a pair of bag-shaped shoulder belts (6a) and a bag-shaped chest belt (6b). A tongue (5) is connected to the distal end of the chest bolt (6). The chest-contact pad (7) comprises a chest-contact portion (7a) having a comparatively large area, and a cylindrical portion (7b) formed at the distal end of the chest-contact portion (7a). The chest bolt (6b) is retained by retaining portions (7c), (7d) of the chest-contact portion (7a), thereby attaching the chest-contact pad (7) to the infant seat belt (6). The retaining portions (7c), (7d) are formed to have grooves (7e), (7f). The chest-contact portion (7a) breaks from the grooves (7e), (7f) under the expansion force of the chest belt (6b) when the gas is introduced. Owing to the breakage of the chest-contact portion (7a), the chest belt (6b) and the shoulder belts (6a) inflate instantaneously and in reliable fashion. <IMAGE>