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Patent GB-2272360-A (GB)
Title: Carcass deboning
Inventor: QUEALLY PETER
IPC: A22B5/00
Filed: 1993-11-17
Abstract: Apparatus for deboning carcasses comprises an overhead rail 1 carrying carcass transport hooks 12 and a drop arm 30 which is pivotally mounted to a bracket 31. A support hook 35 is connected by a link chain 36 to the drop arm 30 and a pneumatic ram 33 pushes the arm 30 downwardly. A transport hook engaging finger 40 is operated by a double acting pneumatic ram to move a transport hook 12. The support hook 35 is attached to part of the carcass suspended on the transport hook 12 and the drop arm 30 is forced down by the ram 33 to apply a separating force as a skeletal part is removed from the carcass. The carcass may be prepared for deboning whilst hung from hook 12 by being placed on a pivotably mounted cradle and moving the cradle to the desired position so the carcass can be scribed to indicate position of cuts to be made later (Figs 10 and 11). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2273970-A (GB)
Title: Rope-gripping device for pulley assembly
Inventor: NEVE SIMON HAROLD
IPC: H02G1/04
Filed: 1993-12-24
Abstract: A rope-gripping device without moving parts comprises: a pair of side-entry guides 2, 3 for entry and egress of a rope 5; between the said guides a pair of jamming cleats 4; and between said cleats a guide comprising a body 6 providing a surface having two grooves 8, 9 separated by a ridge 10, the shape of the ridge being such that a rope of suitably chosen size can be rolled over the ridge to pass from one of the said grooves to the other and the positions of the grooves being such that when the rope is taut between the said guides 2, 3 it is engaged with the said jamming cleats 4 when in one 9 of the said grooves and disengaged from them when in the other 8. The device is especially useful for incorporation in pulley assemblies for use in work on electric overhead lines, especially the replacement of earth wires (for example with earth wires incorporating optical fibres). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2276967-A (GB)
Title: Personal identification devices and access control systems
Inventor: DAVIES JOHN HUGH EVANS
IPC: G07C9/00
Filed: 1992-11-30
Abstract: A lock (19) which by physical or logical means controls human access to an objective (29) such as a restricted area or a computer system is controlled by a data processing system (10) which has access to a store of authorised users (14) and a store of complex images (15), specifically images of human faces. Each authorised user knows certain ones of the complex images, and these key images are linked to an identity statement unique to that user. On receipt of an identity statement signifying an authorised user, a matrix of images including the key images is presented to the user on a display (12), and by means of a suitable input device (20) the user must identify which images are his key images in order to confirm authorisation and be permitted access. The user and image stores (18) may be carried in credit card form as a section of an optical disk. The high security of the system results from the inability of a person to communicate adequately to another the ability to recognise a third person or other complex image. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2279670-A (GB)
Title: Floor grating
Inventor: WRIGHT JOHN EDWARD SIMON
IPC: E04C2/42
Filed: 1994-07-07
Abstract: Cross-bars 2 extend through elongate holes 7 in vertical webs 3 of parallel beams 1. The cross-bars 2 are oblong in cross-section and narrower sides of the cross-bars have notches 8 in which the webs 3 engage to space the beams 1 apart. Each cross-bar 2 consists of two contiguous longitudinal members 2a, 2b, which are identical in profile, thus simplifying manufacture by extrusion, in particular pultrusion. The cross-bars may lie with their major axis vertical or horizontal. In another embodiment a first, notched, cross-bar member may be inserted in a vertical slot in the beams and then moved laterally into a shorter adjoining slot, a second unnotched cross-bar member then being inserted into the first slot. The parts of the grating may be of glass-fibre reinforced plastics. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2282877-A (GB)
Title: A lamp for construction work using a light source having directivity
Inventor: KAGAYAMA JOE
IPC: E01F9/619
Filed: 1994-08-24
Abstract: Light flux emitted from each of a plurality directional light sources, eg LED (13b) enters each of reflection surfaces (19a, 19b) which are formed inside respective disk-like housings (5a, 5b) made of a transparent plastic material. The light flux is reflected from each reflection surface and becomes two light flux directed in opposing directions. Each of two light flux travels outwardly through each housing. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2282005-A (GB)
Title: Plunger switch
Inventor: MAGOME TETSUYA
IPC: H01H3/14
Filed: 1994-09-12
Abstract: A plunger switch, e.g. a vehicle brake lamp switch, includes a self adjusting mechanism having a ratchet 5b for setting the operating plunger 6 in a proper initial position relative to an outer actuator, e.g. a brake pedal, after the switch has been mounted in a predetermined mounted position. One of the ratchet 5b and a cooperable engaging means 16, e.g. a spring, a ratchet or a projection, may be provided on an attachment member 2 for mounting the switch housing 1 in the mounted position and the other of the ratchet 5b and the engaging means 16 may be provided on the outer wall of the switch housing 1. Alternatively, the ratchet 5b and the cooperable engaging means 16 may be provided on two relatively movable portions of the plunger 6 (Fig 7). The construction ensures that any shavings produced during adjustment do not adhere to the switch contacts. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284026-A (GB)
Title: Electro-hydraulic interlock system for a transmission maintains a ratio clutch engaged on supply failure
Inventor: SIMMONS GERALD P
IPC: F16H61/18
Filed: 1994-10-20
Abstract: A separate electro-hydraulic interlock system (50) of a transmission control system controls each one of a plurality of hydraulically actuated speed and directional clutches via supply line (55) and return line (56). Each of the interlock systems includes a pilot operated valve (58) which operates to proportionally control one of the hydraulically actuated clutches in response to receipt of a pilot signal from an electrohydraulic proportional valve (64) that is proportionally controlled in response to a first electrical control signal. A solenoid operated valve (86) is also provided to communicate the pressurized fluid from the one hydraulically actuated clutch to a pressure responsive section of the electro-hydraulic proportional valve so that in the event of an electrical failure in the system, the pressurized fluid from the one hydraulically actuated clutch acts on the pressure responsive section holding the electro-hydraulic proportional valve in the fluid passing condition. This holds the pilot operated valve in a position to maintain the one hydraulically actuated clutch engaged. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2283767-A (GB)
Title: Cistern assembly for mounting in a frame wall
Inventor: DUNSTAN PETER ROSS
IPC: E03D1/012
Filed: 1994-11-08
Abstract: A cistern assembly for mounting in a frame wall comprising a front and a rear layer spaced apart by, and secured to, a plurality of substantially vertical studs (31), said cistern assembly being adapted for mounting between an adjacent pair of said studs and comprising a cistern body and a cistern lid each of which has a front to rear maximum dimension less than that dimension of the studs which determines the front to rear spacing between said layers and each of which has a left to right maximum dimension which is less than the spacing between said adjacent pair of studs, said cistern body having a pair of support surfaces (25) adjacent the base of said body; and said assembly further comprising a pair of support brackets (30) each having a mounting surface adapted to be secured to one of the opposed faces of said adjacent pair of studs, a support flange (34) at one (lower) end of each said bracket, and a pair of spaced apart edge restraint means between which said mounting surface and support flange are located, the maximum external dimension of each said bracket between said edge restraint means being less than or equal to the front to rear stud dimension and the interior dimension between said edge restraint means being greater than said front to rear maximum dimension of said cistern body and lid. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284970-A (GB)
Title: Frequency spectrum control of received acoustic signal in a telephone set
Inventor: YOSHIDA TOSHIO
IPC: H04M9/08
Filed: 1994-12-07
Abstract: A control method of the frequency characteristics of a received acoustic signal in a telephone set comprises detecting at 201, 202 the noise frequency spectrum (indicative of the noise around the telephone set) of a sending acoustic signal obtained by a telephone transmitter (not shown) and the frequency spectrum at 204 of a received acoustic signal to be converted into sound waves at 107 by a telephone receiver. The noise and received signals are compared in 203 for each frequency. A level difference is detected in a mask region wherein the noise frequency spectrum is greater than the reception frequency spectrum. Depending on the level difference, the frequency spectrum of the received acoustic signal is increased in the low frequency region when the greatest level difference is not greater than a predetermined limit value Lth. When the greatest level difference is greater than the predetermined limit value, the frequency spectrum of the received acoustic signal is decreased in the low frequency region and is increased in the high frequency region. The low frequency region and the high frequency region are decided based on a predetermined lowest frequency required to obtain a desired speech articulation (more than 70 %). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2288239-A (GB)
Title: Calibration of an induction logging tool
Inventor: LESTER ROBERT A
IPC: G01V3/28
Filed: 1995-02-28
Abstract: Calibration of an induction logging tool 10 in order to compensate for the directly coupled signal from transmitter coil 26 to receiver coil pairs 28, 30 and 34, 36 is achieved by the provision adjacent to the receiver coils of magnetic equalisation bodies 61, 63, 65, 67 which may comprise rod shaped elements of magnetically permeable (e.g. ferrite) or highly electrically conductive material. The transmitter coil is energised when the tool is immersed in a medium having substantially zero conductivity (such as air) and the positions of the equalisation bodies are adjusted so as to alter the magnetic flux distribution within the coils to null the output signals from each of the receiver coil pairs, the individual coils of each pair being connected in series. The material and shape of the equalisation bodies is chosen to minimise the temperature dependence of the calibration. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2301933-A (GB)
Title: Gas discharge closing switch
Inventor: NAVAROLI HENRY DONALD
IPC: H01J17/54
Filed: 1995-06-09
Abstract: A gas discharge closing switch (10), such as a thyratron, has a one-piece ceramic housing (18) containing an anode (12), a cathode (16), and a control electrode (14). The anode and cathode form fluid-tight seals with opposite ends of the housing. The control electrode is mounted entirely within the housing, and, in one embodiment, is affixed to an interior wall of the housing. The housing preferably supports the anode, the cathode and the control electrode, and maintains electrical isolation between them.
Patent GB-2302298-A (GB)
Title: Knife for cutting packaging
Inventor: SMITH JOHN IVOR
IPC: B26B27/00
Filed: 1995-06-14
Abstract: A knife comprises a body 14 providing a handle and a blade 10 secured to the body by means of a screw 18. The blade has a lower cutting edge protected by a shoe 12 and is used by moving the knife in a rearwards direction 20. The blade is provided with a secondary cutting edge protruding from an upper surface of the body allowing a shallow depth penetration of the cutter into packaging. The blade 10 can pivot, when screw 18 is slackened, to enclose the secondary blade edge in the body (Fig 1).
Patent GB-2304271-A (GB)
Title: Protective Pad Assembly
Inventor: DOBLE BRADLEY JAMES
IPC: A41D13/08
Filed: 1995-08-15
Abstract: A protective pad 1 comprises two layers 6,7 of material capable of absorbing and dissipating the force of a load. The pad 1 may be strapped to the required area of a person's body, such as the hand when lifting loads, by straps 2,3 which are attached together by hook and loop fastenings 4,5. The pad 1 has a loop area 8 for attachment to the hook area 10 of an additional pad 9 which comprises two layers 6,7 of protective padding. Each additional pad 9 also has a loop area 8 onto which further pads may be attached. The pad may also be attached to a mechanical lifting device, or to the load itself.
Patent GB-2293276-A (GB)
Title: Electronic device having an rf circuit integrated into a movable housing element
Inventor: KRENZ ERIC LE ROY
IPC: H04B1/38
Filed: 1995-09-08
Abstract: When a radio frequency (RF) circuit is integrated into a movable housing element of an electronic device one must consider the affects of the surrounding area when the RF circuit is in a functioning position. A preferred embodiment is a radiotelephone (100) having an antenna (105) integrated into a movable housing element (101). The antenna (105) has two functioning positions, an opened and a closed position. The antenna (105) is tuned for efficiency when the movable housing element (101) is in the opened position. When the movable housing 104 element (101) is in the closed position, a first pair of conductive plates (107, 109) located in the movable housing element (101) and a second conductive plate (113) located in the second housing element (103) are positioned to retune the antenna (105) due to the detuning affects caused by the close proximity of other electronic components located in the second housing element (103). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2302259-A (GB)
Title: Combination of housing for cigarette package and lighter with container for ash/cigarette butts and with extinguisher
Inventor: POSSAMAI MARIO
IPC: A24F15/18
Filed: 1995-10-25
Abstract: A multi-purpose accessory, characterised by consisting of a substantially parallelpiped rigid casing (1) able to house a packet (3) of cigarettes and a cigarette lighter (4), said casing comprising in a major surface a shaped depression for resting the cigarette, an end portion of said casing comprising a cylindrical body (7) in which a corresponding container (16) is inserted under friction, said cylindrical body (7) comprising a longitudinally slotted hole (9), said cylindrical container comprising a longitudinally slotted aperture (17), said cylindrical container (16) being rotatable axially between a position in which said slotted aperture (17) faces said slotted hole (9), and a position in which it does not. The rotation may also enable hole 8 in the cylindrical body and hole 19 in the cylindrical container to be aligned with the cavity of an extinguisher element (10 Fig 3) housed in the cylindrical body.
Patent GB-2296542-A (GB)
Title: Friction clutch
Inventor: LINK ACHIM
IPC: F16D25/06
Filed: 1995-12-22
Abstract: A friction clutch (1) has a clutch housing (3) rotatable with a flywheel, a pressure plate (6) rotatable with the clutch housing (3) and axially movable, a clutch plate (8) with friction linings and a diaphragm spring (9) urging the pressure plate (6) towards the flywheel. An annular spring member (14) is arranged in the housing (3) to augment a release force applied by a withdrawal system. With the clutch engaged the spring member (14) applies little or no release force, but on increasing withdrawal travel, it produces an increasing release force. The engagement of the spring member (14) with the housing (3) and the diaphragm spring (9) is arranged to ensure its correct operation. The clutch may be a push-to-release clutch or a pull-to-release clutch. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2294915-A (GB)
Title: Counter-rotating Surfacing Marine Drive
Inventor: MEISENBURG GARY L
IPC: B63H5/10
Filed: 1993-05-27
Abstract: A marine drive 10 having two counter-rotating surface operating propellers on concentric shafts 156, 158 comprises a housing 20 having upper and lower spaced horizontal bores 22, 24 intersected by a vertical bore 26, the bores respectively housing an upper input shaft 28, the propeller shafts 156, 158 and a drive shaft 36. An upper adaptor spool 48 has a lower threaded outer portion 50 mating with a threaded portion 46 of the vertical bore 26 of the drive housing 20 and supporting the upper gear 42 for rotation about the driveshaft 36 which in turn is supported for rotation within the adaptor spool 48. The vertical bore has a stepped diameter that enables assembly from above of the majority of the vertical drive train components into a one-piece unitary integrally cast housing. The vertical distance between the adaptor spool 48 and the lower bearing 118 supporting the vertical driveshaft 36 is about equal to propeller radius. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2303861-A (GB)
Title: Handrail and support member
Inventor: FORRESTER ROBERT
IPC: E04F11/18
Filed: 1996-02-22
Abstract: A support member for supporting a supplementary handrail underneath an existing handrail and at a height suitable for shorter persons such as children. A U-shaped arm member 2 is screwed via fixing plate 1 to the underside of an existing handrail, and supports a tube 3 for receiving a supplementary handrail 4. Fixing plate 1 and receiving tube 3 are offset at an angle of between 40 and 50 degrees A, B such that the arm member 2 is vertical to fit between spindles of an existing post and spindle construction handrail.
Patent GB-2313095-A (GB)
Title: Mounting the removable walls on the wheeled platform of a mobile container
Inventor: BRIDGES KEVIN
IPC: B62B3/02
Filed: 1996-05-14
Abstract: The rectangular platform (12), which may be a single plastics moulding or of wood, is mounted on a rigid subframe (18) and has a load receiving deck (14), wheels (22) and a coupling member 28 which is received in a slot (26) in an outwardly directed edge (24) of the platform so as to lie flush with that edge. The wall (30), has a coupling member (32) which is offset inwardly of the wall (30) and which engages the coupling member (28) on the platform so that the wall member (30) is supported substantially perpendicular to the platform (12) and offset outwardly from the deck (14). The offset may be achieved by dog-leg portions 36 of the side-wall uprights which enter tubular sockets 28 or by a straight pin of semicircular crosssection which is offset from the side-wall (fig.5) or by dog-leg sockets on the side-wall which engage pins on the platform (fig.6). The offset enables the full surface area of the platform to be used while the use of a subframe enables lighter platforms to be used.
Patent GB-2304213-A (GB)
Title: Safeguarding hard drive data and preventing certain user input
Inventor: KONG WON-KEUN
IPC: G06F21/80
Filed: 1996-07-25
Abstract: The computer has a security potion which arranges that the computer may only be initialized if a correct password is supplied and if the hard drive is the same as that which was originally installed together with the security portion. The methods for installing and removing the security portion involve the manipulation of the boot code on the hard drive. The security portion can inhibit disk control commands from writing to the boot sector on the hard disk to guard against circumvention of the security system. A TSR executive control program is used to prevent user input of certain commands.
Patent GB-2315998-A (GB)
Title: Sink drain assembly
Inventor: CHENG TSAN-HSIUNG
IPC: E03C1/23
Filed: 1996-08-13
Abstract: A sink drain assembly includes a disk-like sink flange 1 fixable to the drain of a sink and a drain pipe 2 connected to the sink flange at the bottom thereof in use. The drain pipe 2 has a neck 12 and a stopper 3 disposed in the drain pipe, which is movable to close/open the passage of the neck. A link 4 is diposed inside the drain pipe and is connected to a bottom end in use of the stopper. A ball supported lever 5 is coupled to the link and is arranged to extend out of a stepped side hole 13 of the drain pipe for movement to lift/lower the stopper through the link in opening/closing the passage of the neck.
Patent GB-2304314-A (GB)
Title: Collapsible wheelchair
Inventor: GOODMAN GEOFFREY
IPC: A61G5/08
Filed: 1996-08-16
Abstract: A wheelchair comprises two pivotally connected, rigid sections supporting a pair of rear wheels and at least one front wheel 2 respectively, the pivotal axis extending substantially parallel to a line joining the rotational centres of the rear wheels; and means for locking the sections in a predetermined relative position. The rear wheels may be detachable from mounts 48. Each section may be a tubular metal frame. The locking means may comprise an elongate member pivotally mounted on each section (40 figure 2) with their distal ends pivotally coupled 42, said coupling being lockable, such as by a slidable sleeve 38, to hold the two sections in the predetermined relative position. The seat backrest, the footrests and the armrests may all be collapsible.
Patent GB-2316907-A (GB)
Title: Magnetic card having superimposed permanently structured layers of anisotropic particles aligned along different axes
Inventor: GUSSEFELD GUNTER
IPC: G06K19/06
Filed: 1996-09-04
Abstract: The card carries superimposed permanently structured layers 2,3 having spaced regions 8, 10 which contain anisotropic magnetic particles aligned along different axes 4,5. The remaining regions 9,11 of the layers contain anisotropic magnetic particles having either no overall orientation or being aligned along respective further axes 6,7 which are not parallel to any of the axes 4,5. Different sensors read data from different layers thereby increasing the data storage capacity of the card.
Patent GB-2319432-A (GB)
Title: Analogue telephone socket tester
Inventor: ROBERTS STEPHEN
IPC: H04M1/24
Filed: 1996-11-15
Abstract: An improved design of telephone socket tester which enables the integrity of the electrical connection of the shunt wire (bell wire) to be established without the need to initiate an incoming ringing signal. The design detects the presence of the dialling tone by monitoring the telephone line through the capacitor 6 mounted in the Master Socket and the associated wiring of parallel connections to secondary sockets.
Patent GB-2310720-A (GB)
Title: Intrusion detecting apparatus for a vehicle
Inventor: KANI HIROYUKI
IPC: B60R25/10
Filed: 1997-02-27
Abstract: An intrusion detecting apparatus for a vehicle comprises a Doppler shift signal outputting unit (60, 70), which outputs a signal in response to the Doppler shift between a reflected ultrasonic signal measured by an ultrasonic receiver (10b, 40, 50), and a transmitted ultrasonic signal from a transmitter (10a, 20, 30). An envelope detecting circuit (80) also detects the level of the received ultrasonic signal. A detecting means (151, 152) then detects an illegal intrusion by a person only when it is determined that the Doppler shift signal is within a predetermined amount corresponding to the movement of a person intruding into the passenger compartment, and it is also determined that the detected level of the received ultrasonic signal is outside a "range of disturbance", i.e. outside a range which corresponds to disturbances other than an intrusion. Therefore an erroneous detection due to a disturbance caused by some reason other than an intrusion can be prevented.