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Patent GB-2275247-A (GB)
Title: Container with rotatable pouring spout
Inventor: PARSONAGE HARVEY JOHN
IPC: B65D25/50
Filed: 1993-02-22
Abstract: A container includes a pouring spout (12) rotatable between first and second positions. The spout comprises a spout outlet (15) remotely offset from the rotation axis and an inlet element (16) rotatable about the rotation axis. The container has an adjacent and corresponding outlet element (20). Each element has an opening (22, 23) offset from the rotation axis, wherein the openings have no overlap when the spout is in the first position and are aligned when the spout is in the second position. The container further incorporates a ball detent (33) adapted to releasably engage the spout outlet when the spout is in the first position. The container may further incorporate engagement means which comprises: a first O-ring (41) arranged between the inlet and outlet elements, extending around both openings when the spout is in the second position and one of the openings when the spout is in the first position; and a second, narrower O-ring (56) arranged between the inlet and outlet elements extending around the periphery of the outlet element (20). A locking ring (25) urges the inlet element (16) against the O-rings (41, 56) to form a seal either in the pouring or storage positions. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2267441-A (GB)
Title: Bandage
Inventor: GARDNER ARTHUR MICHAEL NEWSAM
IPC: A61F13/15
Filed: 1991-12-24
Abstract: A bandage (100) having a first member (120) of elastic material (14) covered by woven material (150) and a second member of inelastic material (160, 165) with hooked elements (170) which engage the woven material of the first member. The second member may be used to fasten (165) the first member or to provide inelastic regions (160) on the first member for support etc. Slits (180, 185) or apertures (190) may be introduced to the first member to increase the scope of use of the bandage.
Patent GB-2290819-A (GB)
Title: Shutter piling
Inventor: LLOYD ALAN WILLIAM
IPC: E02D5/03
Filed: 1994-06-28
Abstract: A piling module in the form of a profiled PVC sheet 10 having two curved regions 12, 14 between its vertical end edges, which are provided with interlocking formations 16, 18 for engaging adjacent modules in order to form a continuous wall. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2298143-A (GB)
Title: Target football
Inventor: BLYTHING FRANK
IPC: A63B63/00
Filed: 1995-02-25
Abstract: The portable goalmouth frame is constructed of push-in tube and socket construction comprising lengths of straight tubing, elbow and tee sockets (12,14,16) to form the goalmouth frame. Guide ropes are attached to the feet, and vertical end posts to stablize the frame and end caps close the ends of the feet supports. The frame supports a net with target areas marked thereon.
Patent GB-2290686-A (GB)
Title: Transmitting data over a power cable utilizing a magnetically saturable core reactor
Inventor: BESSER GORDON LEE
IPC: H04B3/54
Filed: 1995-06-15
Abstract: The present invention impresses the data on the power signal by utilizing a saturable core reactor. The saturable core reactor uses two cores. Each core has both load windings 23, 25 and control windings 27, 29. The control windings 27, 29 are selectively energized to alter an electrical characteristic of the current passing through the load windings. The saturable core reactor is designed with cores made of a highly magnetically permeable material 50 that the cores are easily saturated. The cyclical saturation of the cores achieved by the load current, and the selective saturation of the cores achieved by selectively applying a D.C. control current, results in "deformations" being selectively formed at the zero crossings of the load current waveform. These "deformations can be selectively formed on the power signal to represent a binary data stream. Once the series of "deformations" is impressed onto the power signal, the "deformations" are communicated from one point on the power cable to another point on the power cable together with the power signal. The "deformations" are then read and transformed into a binary data stream. Thus, the power cable is converted from a mere power cable to a power cable capable of transmitting both power and data simultaneously. The invention is useful for the transmission of data regarding temperature, pressure, pump operation in an oil or gas wellbore over a power cable to the surface. Construction of the core with the load and control windings thereon is also described (Figs. 5A, 5D not shown). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2302725-A (GB)
Title: Heat transfer system
Inventor: LAWRENCE JOHN MICHAEL WALMSLEY
IPC: F25B41/06
Filed: 1995-06-28
Abstract: A refrigeration apparatus for cooling food products, comprising an evaporator (1) through which refrigerant fluid is passed, an electronic expansion valve (4b) for controlling the flow of said fluid as a liquid at the inlet of the evaporator, and sensor means (18; 18') sensing the presence of liquid at the outlet of the evaporator. The sensor means may include a heating element associated with a temperature sensor. Alternatively, the sensor means may generate a signal in dependence upon vapour pressure, the signal recording the amount of superheat. A second sensor means (20) may be present responsive to the temperature around the evaporator. Control means (12) operates the valve (4b) to adjust the liquid flow in response to the output of the second sensor means (20) so as to maintain the products within a predetermined range of temperature, subject to limiting or interrupting the input liquid flow if the sensor means (18; 18') indicates that the superheat is substantially zero or is below a predetermined minimum value.
Patent GB-2297079-A (GB)
Title: Compact disc containers
Inventor: KRESFELDER GRAHAM
IPC: B65D85/57
Filed: 1996-01-16
Abstract: A compact disc container is in the form of a shallow box (1), the entry (6) to which is through one of the narrow sides (4) so that the disc (7) is slid in and out edgewise. In one form, to ease extraction, a main face (2) of the box (1) has an aperture (5) from the centre to near the entry side (4) so that the disc can be worked by finger or thumb. Preferably it will be shielded by a thin flexible liner (9) within the box. In another version, a tray receives the disc (7) and slides in and out of the box (10).
Patent GB-2313260-A (GB)
Title: Accessing a plurality of communication systems
Inventor: ROBINSON WILLIAM
IPC: H04B7/185
Filed: 1996-05-17
Abstract: An external processing device 24, such as a laptop computer, is provided to enable an adaptive subscriber radio terminal 20 to communicate with a selected system of a plurality of communications systems 11 to 17. A common system 19 informs the terminal 20 which systems are available. This information is transferred to the external device 24 which has a comparator (312, Fig.3) to compare the capability and resident functions of the terminal 20 with the requirements of a system it is desired to use, to determine if the terminal 20 is capable of operating on the selected system and to determine whether programming is required. If programming is required, the device 24 receives an enabling program from the common system 19 and builds an executable program for the terminal 20 based on the enabling program. Device 24 then instructs terminal 20 to load the executable program and enable resident terminal functions, and subsequently instructs terminal 20 to test compatibility with the selected communication system prior to the terminal 20 accessing the selected system. The device 24 may be connected to the terminal 20 by a cable or by an infrared or other wireless link, in which case the device 24 receives the enabling program from the common system 19 via the terminal 20. Alternatively, the external processing device 24 may be coupled to an interconnect system 18 through which all the systems 11 to 17 and the common system 19 are coupled (Fig.6).
Patent GB-2316702-A (GB)
Title: Spring steel rail clip for use with steel sleeper and insulator
Inventor: RELPH SIDNEY
IPC: E01B9/34
Filed: 1996-08-28
Abstract: A spring steel clip for attaching a rail 10 to a steel sleeper comprises a first bearing surface 2 for engagement with the upper surface of the sleeper, a second bearing surface 4 for engagement with the underside of the sleeper, and a central loop section 6 for engagement with an upper surface of the rail foot flange. A tool is provided selectively to increase the spacing 7 between the ends of the loop section to flex the clip, allowing assembly of an insulator 11 into the space between said loop and the adjacent surface of the rail foot. An insulator pad 12 may also be used under the rail. Insulator 11 may be preformed to complement the upper surface of the rail flange. The clip may be U-shaped in plan (fig. 1).
Patent GB-2319606-A (GB)
Title: Fast nitrogen monoxide detection
Inventor: HANDS TIM
IPC: G01N21/76
Filed: 1996-11-21
Abstract: A nitrogen monoxide detection system based on O 3 /chemiluminescence measurements has a main reaction chamber fed with O 3 and coupled to a photodetector. An adjacent intermediate chamber is connected to the main reaction chamber and to a sample source and maintains a substantially constant static pressure leading to a constant flour rate of sample gas into the reaction chamber. Response time of detection system is below 4 milliseconds.
Patent GB-2309034-A (GB)
Title: Carpet or fibrous textile cleaning compositions
Inventor: COLURCIELLO ANDREW FRANCIS
IPC: C11D3/12
Filed: 1996-12-13
Abstract: Flowable granular carpet cleaning compositions which do not contain borax or boric acid salts and which are readily shaken or strewn onto a carpet needing cleaning comprise comminuted cellulose, zeolite, an inorganic salt system comprising (a) alkali metal carbonate, (b) alkali metal bicarbonate, and (c) alkali metal sesquicarbonate wherein the ratio of (a):(b):(c) is 1:0.5-2.5:0.5-2.5, one or more organic solvents, an organic or inorganic acid, anionic surfactant, and, water.
Patent GB-2321599-A (GB)
Title: Gas insufflation device for use with a lung ventilator
Inventor: DINGLEY JOHN
IPC: A61M16/08
Filed: 1997-01-31
Abstract: The device comprises a reservoir, such as bellows 24 or a flexible container, for gas from the system, means for propelling at least part of the gas down a catheter 21 within a tracheal tube 7, means controlling the filling of the gas reservoir and delivery of the gas to the trachea such that this cycle occurs once with each respiratory cycle of the ventilator and means measuring the gas pressure within the tube conducting it to the catheter which stops the insufflation device functioning if the measured pressure does not fall below a set value during each respiratory cycle. Thus, an insufflating bolus of gas is propelled down the catheter at the end of expiration to clear CO 2  from the tube and prevent it being rebreathed, the control system activating a pump at the correct point in the respiratory cycle. The pump may be disabled when there is accidental occlusion of any of the gas pathways.
Patent GB-2310462-A (GB)
Title: Hydraulic systems and valve assemblies
Inventor: OLNEY GIFFORD JAMES
IPC: F15B13/01
Filed: 1997-02-05
Abstract: An hydraulic system has an hydraulic cylinder 11 connected to a reversible pump 12 by a first fluid line 13. A check valve assembly is connected in the first line 13 and in a second line 28 extending from the pump 12 to a tank 18. The check valve assembly 14 has a ball (47) that seats on conical valve sea (46) to enable flow of fluid from the pump 12 to the cylinder 11 but to prevent flow in the opposite direction. A shuttle member (49) in the check valve assembly 14 is displaced by fluid pressure in the second line 28 when the pump is reversed to unseat the ball 47 and allow flow from the cylinder 11 in the opposite direction via the pump and the second line 28 to the tank 18.
Patent GB-2325869-A (GB)
Title: Preventing corrosion in exhaust gas treatment systems
Inventor: OKAZOE KIYOSHI
IPC: B01D53/50
Filed: 1997-06-05
Abstract: Waste gas, eg from a boiler, is treated with ammonia to remove at least SO 2 . The apparatus is made of stainless steel, which is subject to corrosion caused by the presence of Cl<SP>-</SP> ions. This can be prevented by maintaining the balance between SO 4 <SP>-</SP> and Cl<SP>-</SP> ions and also by maintaining the pH within an appropriate range. In the apparatus of Figure 2, the waste gas, after addition of ammonia, passes through an electrostatic precipitator (not shown) and then into the desulphurising system through inlet 21a. Here it is scrubbed with a limestone slurry circulated from tank 22, to yield gypsum B. Sensors 13 monitor the concentrations of Cl<SP>-</SP> and SO 4 <SP>-</SP> ions and the pH, passing the results to controller 14. When the values are such that stainless steel could be corroded, the controller may:- - add more limestone from hopper 32, or - dilute the slurry by adding water through valve 41, or - add a measure of the (NH 4 ) 2 SO 4  collected as dust in the precipitator through valve 9, or - increase the pH by adding alkali.
Patent GB-2323226-A (GB)
Title: Low standby current high-side MOS switch drive circuit
Inventor: SICARD THIERRY
IPC: H03K17/06
Filed: 1997-12-20
Abstract: A control circuit 10 responds to a control signal 25 to enable an NMOS high side transistor supplying a load 200 when the input 25 reaches a level sufficient to trigger a regenerative circuit 95,110,100. The current mirrors 65,70,80 supplying operating current to the hysteresis circuit are enabled by the transistor 30 only when the input signal is asserted. When the trigger circuit switches, it enables the charge pump 160 to supply a working gate potential to the output transistor. No current is drawn by the control circuit 10 when the input is not asserted. The circuit may be used in vehicles.
Patent GB-2322676-A (GB)
Title: Modular brake with replaceable friction pads
Inventor: MONTALVO EDWIN J
IPC: F16D65/14
Filed: 1998-02-17
Abstract: A friction material pad 15, for use in association with an assembly 10 comprising a base plate 11, piston/cylinder assembly 12 and a torque collar 13, is generally trapezoidal in shape and comprises friction material 16 secured to a back plate 17. The back plate has tabs 22 to facilitate removal of the friction pad from the assembly 10, and a further tab (56, Fig.5) for wear indication. The pad may be retained on the collar by torque posts 14 or spring(s) (37, 38, 76 Figs. 6, 7 and 12) and by a magnet 21. Also disclosed are two base plates (100A/B, Fig. 16) which abut (at 105a) to provide mating air passageways (107).
Patent GB-2337601-A (GB)
Title: Holding and support mechanism for wire probe in a wood decay test device
Inventor: WHITE MICHAEL
IPC: G01N33/46
Filed: 1998-02-28
Abstract: Attached to a rotating drive is a central shaft A which has a rebate in the end to enable it to project partially out of an outer drive tube assembly. The outer drive tube assembly consists of a tube B1, a half-cylinder-shaped solid segment B2 and a collar B3 encasing both the segment and the end of the tube. By means of a sprung-loaded mechanism C, the end of the central shaft A can be projected from the outer drive tube assembly to reveal a T-shaped groove (D) in its flat surface. The end of the wire probe E is bent at right-angles to the probe shaft and placed in the T-shaped groove. When the sprung-loaded mechanism is released, the central shaft A retracts and the wire probe is held in place, flush against the segment B2. Also, provided are two interlocked strips of flexible tape (N, Fig.4, 4a) and rigid blocks (M) with a groove (Q) running through the longitudinal centre to support the probe. The blocks mounted on each tape are interlocked alternately so that the structure forms a rigid beam and are then pulled apart to render the tapes flexible.
Patent GB-2326472-A (GB)
Title: Method of Calibrating Spectroradiometers
Inventor: LINDERMEIR ERWIN
IPC: G01J5/00
Filed: 1998-05-06
Abstract: A spectroradiometer is calibrated by measuring the spectra of at least three blackbody radiators maintained at different temperatures. The apparatus functions, i.e. the spectral sensitivity and the inherent spectral radiation, are formulated as functions of the radiation temperatures of the blackbodies. A non-linear least squares fit is used to determine the radiation temperatures of the blackbody radiators, and a linear least squares fit is used to the determine the apparatus functions. The method can be used to calibrate IR Fourier spectrometers.
Patent GB-2339203-A (GB)
Title: A method of dipensing
Inventor: HARTSHORN RICHARD TIMOTHY
IPC: C11D17/06
Filed: 1998-07-08
Abstract: The invention provides a method for improving the dispensing of a detergent composition or component thereof, comprising a surfactant and other detergent components, by providing a detergent composition comprising an intimate mixture of the surfactant component or part thereof and a crystalline layered silicate.
Patent GB-2330768-A (GB)
Title: Infant restraint car bed allowing the infant to lie on its side
Inventor: SEDLACK MARK
IPC: A47D15/00
Filed: 1998-09-17
Abstract: A child restraint car bed comprises a shell body (12,fig. 4) with a chamber (5,fig. 4) to receive an infant; and first and second slots 44,46 extending through the shell body and communicating with the chamber. A harness assembly includes retention straps (80,fig. 8),82,84 having hook and loop end portions 86,92,94 that extend through the slots 44,46 and attach to an infant within the chamber, securing it to the shell body. The harness assembly moves laterally within the slots 44,46 to adjust to variable body positions assumed by the infant. The lower surface (42,fig. 7) of one sidewall is concave to support an infant in an on-side position and the bottom chamber surface (40,fig. 7) is substantially planar to support the child in a supine position. The shell body is held in position on the vehicle seat by a skirt flange (34,fig. 4) with retention hooks (58,68,fig. 4) which engage and retain a vehicle seat belt.
Patent GB-2331714-A (GB)
Title: Water treatment
Inventor: BOLER STEPHEN ANDREW
IPC: B01D61/14
Filed: 1997-04-18
Abstract: Colour due to humic material in water is removed by subjecting the water to cross-flow filtration. The filtration membrane is an ultrafiltration or microfiltration membrane, with pores of about 10 000 MWCO up to about 0.5 Ám, and is preferably of inorganic material such as zirconia on a porous substrate. The process removes colour, particulates, and micro-organisms in a single step, and achieves adequate permeation rates.
Patent GB-2344196-A (GB)
Title: Data processing system has optimized key-pointing operation for log record storage
Inventor: BEAVEN JOHN ANTHONY
IPC: G06F11/14
Filed: 1998-11-26
Abstract: A server data processing apparatus (10, Figure 1) has a direct access non-volatile memory storage device (103) having a log file (20, Figure 2) made up of extent files (21,22,23) for storing log records therein. A processor (101) allocates a first extent file (21) to be used for storing 31 log records for recreating a transaction processing environment, in the event of a server failure, arising from, for example, a power loss. Log records are written into the current extent file until it has been completely written with log records and cannot store any more. The processor then allocates a new extent file (22) for storing log records, and then begins a key-pointing operation 34 on the newly-allocated extent file (22) by writing a key-point start record (22A, Figure 4). All the active log records from the first extent file are then stored in the subsequent log records, and a key-point end record (22N) is written.
Patent GB-2334159-A (GB)
Title: Jack socket
Inventor: WEINGARTNER BERNHARD
IPC: H01R24/58
Filed: 1998-12-02
Abstract: The jack socket for a jack plug (3) has a guide part (1) in the form of a tube length for receiving the shaft (2) of the jack plug (3) and a holder (8) made of an electrically insulating material with contact laminations (9, 10) disposed therein. The contact laminations (9, 10) comprise solder lugs (11) which project with respect to the holder and which can be connected in an electrically conductive manner to the conductors of a printed circuit board (12). The tube-like guide part (1) can be secured in a bore in a casing (7) of an appliance comprising the jack socket. The holder (8) holds the contact laminations (9, 10) and optionally switching contacts in their region directly adjacent to the solder lugs (11). The height (h) of the holder (8) only constitutes a fraction of the height (H) of the contact laminations (9, 10). The guide part (1) and the holder (8) with the contact laminations (9, 10) are separated from one another. The holder (8) is disc- or plate-shaped.
Patent GB-2344377-A (GB)
Title: Motor vehicle exhaust system
Inventor: MA THOMAS TSOI HEI
IPC: B62D35/02
Filed: 1998-12-04
Abstract: A motor vehicle 30 is described that is driven by an internal combustion engine and has an exhaust system 10. The discharge section 20 of the exhaust system 10 from which the engine exhaust gases are discharged into the ambient atmosphere is elongate, extends transversely to the direction of motion of the vehicle and comprises a plurality of discharge regions 24 distributed over the length of the discharge section 20. The size and spacing of the discharge regions 24 and their positions in relation to the wake region 32 of the vehicle 30 are such that, when the vehicle is in motion, the exhaust gases from the engine are dispersed to a sufficiently high dilution ratio of ambient air to exhaust gases within a sufficiently short period of time to suppress the formation of nano-particles.
Patent GB-2332945-A (GB)
Title: Mesh sample holder for spectroscopy
Inventor: TADION JAY
IPC: G01N21/35
Filed: 1998-12-18
Abstract: The holder comprises wire mesh pressed to reduce it's thickness e.g to a value of 10 - 20 microns. The holder is formed by pressing a mesh between hardened dies. A powdered sample for analysis is obtained by placing the sample on a mesh then pressing the powder into the mesh between hardened dies to reduce mesh thickness.
Patent GB-2345446-A (GB)
Title: Knee prosthesis
Inventor: LLOYD RUSSELL
IPC: A61F2/00
Filed: 1999-01-08
Abstract: A knee prosthesis comprises, in combination, a tibial component 10, a femoral component and two meniscal components 11<U>a</U> and 11<U>b</U>. One of the meniscal components 11<U>a</U> is configured to co-operate with the tibial component 10 such that relative movement therebetween is prevented. The other meniscal component 11<U>b</U> is configured to co-operate with the tibial component such that limited relative movement therebetween is allowed. The tibial component 10 has two fixed bollards 14 and 15 projecting upwardly from an upper surface thereof. The two bollards 14 and 15 have annular outwardly extending portions 22 engageable in corresponding recesses 18<U>a</U> and 19<U>a</U> in the one meniscal component 11<U>a</U> in a snap fit manner.
Patent GB-2333146-A (GB)
Title: Labyrinthine baffle for water heater
Inventor: CLARKE ALAN
IPC: F28D20/00
Filed: 1999-01-12
Abstract: A baffle 1 for the inlet of a water storage heater comprises an inlet 11 perpendicular to a plurality of outlets 12, in between which the water is forced through a labyrinth to reduce its flow rate and alter the flow direction. The labyrinth is preferably comprised of a plurality of internal plates 6 forcing the flow into at least two changes of direction before exiting the baffle 1. The outlets 12 preferably have a greater aperture size than the inlet 11. The baffle may be formed from two interlocking units, a top plate 5 and a base plate 4, the base plate having a plurality of feet 7 which stand on the bottom 8 of the water heater. The baffle 1 is preferably circular and the internal plates 6 are preferably arcuate.