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Patent GB-2118875-A (GB)
Title: Rod or bar deceleration
Inventor: STUBBS DENNIS
IPC: B21B41/08
Filed: 1983-01-10
Abstract: A method of rod or bar deceleration and a rod or bar deceleration line are described in which pinch rolls, or the rolls of a mill stand or stands acting as pinch rolls, engage rod or bar from a mill and the pinch rolls or the mill stand rolls are braked so that the rod or bar is decelerated to a speed lower than mill line speed. In one embodiment, Figure 1, the rod or bar 12 is supplied to one of lines A and B and is cut into lengths by a shear 14. The cut lengths of rod or bar are decelerated by pinch rolls or mill stand 17A or 17B. Once a length of rod or bar has been decelerated on one line by one of the pinch rolls 17A, 17B the pinch rolls are accelerated to mill line speed while the next length of rod or bar is decelerated on the other line. Additional pinch rolls 20A or 20B may be used in tandem with pinch rolls 17A or 17B, so that, for example, as pinch roll 17A is decelerating a rod or bar, pinch roll 20A may be accelerated to line speed to receive next rod or bar on line A. In other embodiments, Figures 2a and 2b, and Figure 3, the rod or bar is cut after part of the rod or bar has been decelerated and loop is allowed to form in the rod or bar so that the speed of the rod or bar coming from the mill is maintained. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2136252-A (GB)
Title: Polling Pattern Generator for CATV System
Inventor: YASHIRO KENJI
IPC: H04N7/173
Filed: 1983-11-03
Abstract: A polling pattern generator 34 is intended for use in a CATV system which includes a plurality of terminal units 28, each having an associated passive data monitor 32. The polling pattern generator 34 is responsive to signals from a centre (not shown) and periodically generates polling pattern signals, each of which has a specific address code for designating the corresponding terminal unit 28, and a command code for requesting an answer from the addressed terminal unit 28. The passive data monitor 32 sets the address code in the addressed terminal unit 28. The passive data monitor 32 also compares an update signal which has been sent by the terminal unit 28 in response to the aforesaid command code with the answer requested by that command code, to determine whether or not an operational state of the terminal unit 28 is acceptable. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2131027-A (GB)
Title: Flame-resistant expanded plastics material
Inventor: MALCOLM-BROWN T
IPC: C08J9/236
Filed: 1983-11-15
Abstract: An expanded plastics material has distributed therethrough a fire- resistant powder i.e. an intumescent material or the ingredients thereof. Expanded plastics material is made by subjecting expandable beads or granules of the plastics material to pre-expansion; and subsequently moulding the pre-expanded beads or granules; wherein prior to the moulding, the beads or granules are mixed with the fire-resistant powder. A polyurethane foam is made by mixing the fire-resistant powder with a polyester or polyether having free hydroxy groups and effecting reaction of the polyester or polyether with a di- or triisocyanate to form the polyurethane foam.
Patent GB-2131928-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle mounted mortar
Inventor: PAHNKE KLAUS-DIETER
IPC: F41A23/34
Filed: 1983-12-13
Abstract: In a mount provided on a vehicle and for a front-loader mortar, the mortar tube 26 can be fixed in position in a tubular casing 24 by means of a securing fork 36. After the removal of the securing fork 36 the mortar tube 26 can be extracted from the tubular casing 24 and mounted outside the vehicle 10 for field use. A bearing ball 28 at the rear of the mortar tube 26 rests in a cavity 30 in the base 32 of the casing 24. When, however, the mortar tube 26 is extracted from the casing 24 and mounted outside the vehicle 10 using a base plate and bipod (Fig. 2), the bearing ball 28 rests in a cavity in the base plate. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2159649-A (GB)
Title: Neighbourhood and/or appointed agencies alert system
Inventor: ROMAN GEORGE
IPC: G08B27/00
Filed: 1983-12-15
Abstract: In an intercommunicating alarm network, each of a plurality of premises is provided with a respective alarm station of the kind wherein the alarm signal is generated a predetermined time after an initiation signal is made, the alarm signal being cancellable by a person in the premises at any time up to the moment of generation, and the alarm signal being coded with the identity of the station generating it; the network being such that upon the generaton of an alarm by any one station, any other station within range thereof is actuated so as to relay the alarm onwards throughout the network. In practice the alarms may be initiated by a suspicious occupant of the premises, and subsequently cancelled (within the predetermined time) if the suspicions prove false. The alarm is preferably a pulsed optical signal coded with the identity of the generating station. An occupant of another premises in the network can then render (or call for) assistance to the alarm generating premises. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2133848-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable transmission ratio between brake servo and master cylinder
Inventor: REINARTZ HANS-DIETER
IPC: B60T13/565
Filed: 1983-12-21
Abstract: In an auxiliary power-assisted actuating arrangement for the master cylinder (3) of a hydraulic vehicular brake system with a vacuum servo motor (5) governed by the brake pedal (4), there is provided a force- transmitting lever assembly (6,7,8,12) which transmits the movement of the output drive member (9) of the servo vacuum motor (5) onto the piston rod (7) of the master cylinder (3) in a specific transmission ratio. The transmission ratio is automatically adjustable at the force-transmitting lever assembly by a special servo cylinder (11) connected to the vacuum source. The servo cylinder (11) has a piston (10) with actuating rod (13), an adjustable bearing (8) being pivotally fastened to the actuating rod (13) which latter is held and guided by the frame (19), on which bearing a two-armed lever (6,12) is slidably supported whose first arm (6) is articulated at the output member (9) and whose second arm (12) is articulated at the piston rod (7). As soon as the vacuum prevailing at the vacuum servo motor (5) varies, the effective lever ratio of the force- transmitting lever assembly (6,7,8,12) will likewise vary, i.e. a lower level of vacuum increases the pedal travel required at the brake pedal (4). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2152840-A (GB)
Title: Mineral breaker
Inventor: HUNT NOEL
IPC: B02C18/28
Filed: 1984-01-07
Abstract: The breaker comprises a rotatably driven breaker-drum (19) having teeth (21) secured to its periphery at axially and circumferentially spaced positions. At one side of the drum is a spring-loaded plvotably-mounted breaker- plate (27) with tines 33 spaced along its length and so disposed that the teeth can pass therebetween. The tines so extend under the drum that whereas broken mineral falls between the tines and thence out of the breaker substantially at the side of the drum at which the plate (27) is disposed, non-breakable material is diverted by the fines to a discharge position spaced from that of the broken mineral. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2133352-A (GB)
Title: A laser marking system
Inventor: HAMILTON DAVID CORBETT
IPC: G06K1/12
Filed: 1984-01-13
Abstract: A method and apparatus for marking articles wherein an article is marked by means of a laser beam which is deflected and controlled such as to apply a plurality of laser burn dots in a predetermined pattern on the article. The laser (10) can be modulated continuous wave or pulsed and in both cases is arranged to direct a beam of pulses onto a deflection device (12) which deflects the pulses in space via an optical system (14, 18), onto an article (16) to be marked. The deflecting device (12) can be an acousto-optic deflector or a mirror arrangement controlled electronically in dependence upon the character to be applied to the article. When the deflecting device deflects the beam, in one dimension only, then the article is necessarily displaced during the marking process in a direction perpendicular to the deflection plane of the beam. When the deflecting device can deflect the beam in two dimensions (X, Y), then the article can be stationary during marking. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2143993-A (GB)
Title: Electrical appliance interlock switch
Inventor: LEGER RAYMOND A
IPC: H05B6/76
Filed: 1984-07-02
Abstract: An interlock switch (20) for an electrical appliance such as a microwave oven has a housing (22) having an interior front wall (34), and a plurality of conductive switch elements (100 - 109). A pair of barriers (64, 70) define a pair of gaps (75, 77) with the interior front wall (34) for mounting a buss (90), comprising a first segment (94), formed integrally with one of the conductive switch elements (102), and a second segment (92), formed integrally with another one of the conductive switch elements (106) and electrically connected to the first segment (94). The barriers (70, 64) and a further barrier (60) provide isolation between selected switch elements so that broken off pieces from some switch elements will not come in contact with other switch elements. The barrier (70) is stationary and the barriers (60, 64) are mounted on a pivotable switch element actuator (54). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2161862-A (GB)
Title: Double flow turbine engine equipped with a thrust reverser
Inventor: GIRAUD PIERRE
IPC: F02K1/38
Filed: 1984-07-19
Abstract: In order to reduce the effectiveness of a mixing device 6 for the hot and cold flows C,F of the engine when the doors 8,9 of a thrust reverser are deployed, movable flaps 12 are provided to selectively block at least some of the cold flow channels 7. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2148106-A (GB)
Title: Record brush
Inventor: COOPER PATRICK BERNARD
IPC: G11B3/58
Filed: 1984-09-03
Abstract: A record brush has bristles composed of carbon fibres and bristles composed of fibres of an aromatic polyamide. They may be arranged respectively as at 23a and 23b respectively, and respectively in parallel rows. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2167387-A (GB)
Title: Dispensing metered doses of liquid or powder
Inventor: BALLESTER EDWIN
IPC: B65G53/22
Filed: 1984-10-26
Abstract: An apparatus for automatically filling a liquid or powder into a receptacle consists of an air cylinder simultaneously controlling an infeed valve (46) placed within an exit port (42) of a hopper (28) and a discharge valve (50) placed below the infeed valve within a cavity of a barrel (44). The infeed valve (46) opens after the discharge valve (50) closes allowing the product to enter the cavity of the barrel. When the infeed valve fully closes the discharge valve opens allowing air forced through a piston (34) to push the product via (18) into the receptacle. For a powder, air from nozzle (64) may fluidize the powder and push it into barrel (44). For a liquid, a rising ball valve in piston (34) prevents liquid rising into the hollow stem of the piston; in this case air nozzle (64) is not used. Screw arrangement (17, 35) alters the volume of barrel (44), and thus the amount dispensed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2150122-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for receiving banknotes
Inventor: ITO JIRO
IPC: B65H3/46
Filed: 1984-11-15
Abstract: A bill taking-in apparatus is used for a bill receiving machine, a bill counting machine, or the like. The bill taking-in apparatus comprises a mounting plate 5 for mounting or positioning received bills in an accumulated condition and a vertical plate 7 for contacting the edges of bills 5 on the mounting plate. An opening 6 is provided between the mounting plate and the vertical plate for allowing small volumes of bills to pass therethrough. A shutter 15 is provided on the vertical plate to be movable therealong. The opening 6 is closed by the shutter while bills are accumulating in the loading section 3; however, kick-out roller 9 and take-in roller 10 rotate so that bills tend to become aligned at the lower end of mounting plate 5; shutter 15 is only raised when bills are to be sent consecutively to the feed section 4 of the machine body. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2153867-A (GB)
Title: Wrapped radio opaque yarn
Inventor: CARUS DR EDMUND
IPC: A61F13/20
Filed: 1984-11-30
Abstract: A radio opaque yarn comprises a bundle of filled polypropylene fibres containing 54% to 80% <w>/w of barium sulphate, the bundle being bound with up to 20% <w>/w of substantially unfilled polyester fibres.
Patent GB-2151604-A (GB)
Title: Production of carbon black
Inventor: MORGAN ALLAN C
IPC: C09C/
Filed: 1984-12-13
Abstract: This disclosure relates to an improved furnace process for producing carbon blacks by the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbonaceous feedstock by varying the process described in U.S. Reissue Patent No. 28974 by carrying out the injection of a portion of the liquid hydrocarbon feedstock into the combustion gas stream as solid streams substantially radially at a location where the combustion gas stream has not attained maximum velocity whereby the resultant blacks have increased CDBP values and have properties which impart improved hysteresis to rubber formulations in which the blacks are incorporated.
Patent GB-2152944-A (GB)
Title: Cellulose acetate graft copolymer and yarn formed therefrom
Inventor: OHGA ATUMU
IPC: A24D3/02
Filed: 1985-01-22
Abstract: Cellulose acetate having free hydroxyl groups is modified by the ring-opening graft polymerization of a cyclic ester such as a lactone, particularly  epsilon -caprolactone. This modified cellulose acetate is suitable material for use in production of a yarn. The yarn is spun after melting the modified cellulose acetate, and has improved stability at melt-spinning temperatures, together with satisfactory fibre properties, as compared with unmodified or plasticized cellulose acetate.
Patent GB-2171572-A (GB)
Title: Weapon sighting means
Inventor: LLOYD PETER GREGORY
IPC: G01S17/86
Filed: 1985-02-14
Abstract: Weapon sighting means 14 adapted to be temporarily attached to a weapon 10, such as to the firing tube 11 of a disposable LAW (Fig. 6) includes a conventional optical sight 53 and, optionally, a night-sight 54 both having a composite sightline 21 in the sighting means. The sighting means is attached by cooperating clips 15, 16 nominally bore sighted with the weapon but leaving a gap between the sighting means and weapon surface used by electro-optical transducer means, located at at least three transducer points, such as 26, to measure the local separation heights. Processing means (41, Figure 5(a)) resolves the height measurements into angles  phi  and  omega representing the misalignment between the sighting means and the weapon surface in terms of inclination to, and rotation in, the tangential plane nominally occupied by the sighting means. An electro-optical display 42 comprising an array of LED's has an image thereof superimposed by projection means 52, 51 into the field of view with the array centre coincident with the sightline. The processing means causes illumination of a LED displaced from the array centre in accordance with  phi  and  omega  values and thereby superimposes an illuminated corrected aiming mark into the field of view. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2155326-A (GB)
Title: Document strap
Inventor: DENMARK JAMES
IPC: B42F1/00
Filed: 1985-03-05
Abstract: A document strap of a size to wrap around a file or a bundle of documents, the ends of which are connectable by a quick-release connecting means, the connecting means being adjustable to enable the document strap to be fastened around materials of varying thicknesses. The document strap has a slight stretch characteristic to enable materials to be held together under tension and is adapted to receive writing 16 which may subsequently be erased. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2174189-A (GB)
Title: A burner tube for cooking appliances
Inventor: ZANNETOS MICHAEL
IPC: F23D14/10
Filed: 1985-04-23
Abstract: The burner tube has an open inlet end 7 into which a jet of combustible gas is directed, the gas jet being passed through a turbulence-inducing insert 10, Fig. 2, provided in the open end of the burner tube, the insert defining one or more constricted orifices which are located inwardly of the open end of the burner tube when the insert is positioned in the tube. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2175861-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle security device
Inventor: GILFOYLE NORMAN
IPC: B60R25/00
Filed: 1985-05-31
Abstract: The invention provides a security device located around the lower region of the gear lever (13) of a motor vehicle, said device comprising a hollow housing (11) having an aperture (17) in its normally upper surface which permits the gear lever (13) to operate normally, and said housing (11) including means (12, 12') which, in its operative position prevents movement of the gear lever and in its inoperative position permits the gear lever to be used normally. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2176587-A (GB)
Title: Jacketed linear lamps
Inventor: HALBERSTADT ALEX LEOPOLD
IPC: H01K1/34
Filed: 1985-06-07
Abstract: A jacketed linear lamp has an outer sleeve 2 which is supported coaxially to the inner lamp 1 at a predetermined fixed distance by means of a cap 3,3' fitted over each end of the lamp. An end cap for a jacketed linear lamp comprises a first section 8 having a recess 5 for receiving an end of the inner lamp and a second section 4 of greater diameter than the first, for supporting the outer sleeve. The sleeve may act as a filter, a protective sleeve or a safety screen. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2162494-A (GB)
Title: Tape cassette
Inventor: SCHOETTLE KLAUS
IPC: G11B23/087
Filed: 1985-06-14
Abstract: A pressure spring (1) for reels in tape cassettes, for example video cassettes, possesses fastening means (8, 19) which are arranged in the area of a depression (9) in the particular reel (10) to which pressure is to be applied. In practice, the pressure spring is designed for a two-reel cassette and is in the form of a two-armed spring (2, 3) having fastening arms (4, 5) roughly parallel to these arms. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2163780-A (GB)
Title: Method of moulding powder materials
Inventor: MIYASHITA TSUNEO
IPC: C04B35/632
Filed: 1985-07-01
Abstract: Green mouldings of metal powder and/or ceramic powder are obtained by filling a cooled mould with a mixture of the metal and/or ceramic powder containing 30 to 55% of tertiary butanol as binder. The mixture is at a temperature above the melting point of tertiary butanol, and is cooled in the mould to a temperature below the melting point of methanol. The use of tertiary butanol as binder leads to easy mould release, and since it can be removed from the green moulding at low pressure and relatively low temperature, without decomposition, it is reusable, avoiding the problems of the known decomposable organic binders, and the corrosion resulting from aqueous binders.
Patent GB-2188397-A (GB)
Title: A low drag surface construction
Inventor: WILLIAMS JOHN EIRWYN FFOWCS
IPC: B64C23/00
Filed: 1985-07-17
Abstract: A low drag surface construction utilizes a plurality of longitudinally extending, parallel, spaced apart linear vortices extending transversely of the free stream to reduce drag between the free stream and the surface. The surface is provided with stabilizing means which retains the vortices in their relationship with one another but causes them to traverse the surface in the same direction as the free stream but at approximately half the speed. The stabilizing produces a regular variation in boundary flow across the surface and may comprise dynamic means such as sequenced jets of fluid escaping from apertures in the surface.
Patent GB-2170998-A (GB)
Title: Brush-like writing instrument
Inventor: SAKURAI KIYOKAZU
IPC: B43K5/18
Filed: 1985-12-23
Abstract: A writing or painting instrument having a brush 9 constructed from a plurality of thermoplastic filaments which are bundled into a tuft, an upper end of the tuft being melted to form flange portion 8 by which the brush 9 is mounted in sleeve portion 2; the flange portion 8 engaging in annular groove 6. In this way a gap is provided between at least part of the outer peripheral surface of the brush 9 and the inner peripheral surface of sleeve portion 2. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2186545-A (GB)
Title: Labels and manufacture thereof
Inventor: INSTANCE DAVID JOHN
IPC: G09F3/02
Filed: 1986-01-24
Abstract: A method of producing labels, the method comprising the steps of:-(a) providing an elongate support web;(b) disposing a succession of sheets in a row along the length of the support web;(c) covering the assembly of the succession of sheets on the support web with a web of a self-adhesive laminar material which is adhered by the self-adhesive surface thereof over the said assembly;(d) cutting through the laminar material and through the support web so as to form a succession of multiple labels each of which has a respective one of the sheets adhered to the support web by the laminar material; and(e) cutting, either before, after or simultaneously with cutting step (d), at least one cut through the laminar material, through the respective sheet and through the support web of each of the multiple labels so as to divide each multiple label into at least two labels, each of which has a respective portion of the respective sheet which is adhered to a respective portion of the support web by a respective portion of the laminar material.The invention also provides a label made by that method.
Patent GB-2199253-A (GB)
Title: Word game
Inventor: HOLGATE JOHN DOUGLAS
IPC: A63F3/00
Filed: 1986-08-28
Abstract: A board game for two or more players depicts a maze of interconnecting circuits through which players progress by throw of dice and by solving a variety of word puzzles. The four circuits contain one hundred and twelve game squares and thirty two coloured squares, and are linked by crossover paths marked by arrows. The aim of the game is to negotiate the maze and land on the home square in the innermost circuit. The symbols in the game squares correspond to six types of word puzzle represented by the same symbols on eleven hundred game cards. The game appeals to crossword solvers, puzzle enthusiasts and players of word games. It has an application in the teaching of English by introducing players to the twists and turns of language. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2182428-A (GB)
Title: Burner apparatus
Inventor: JINNO HIDEYUKI
IPC: F23C5/02
Filed: 1986-10-27
Abstract: A fuel burner for water heating apparatus is provided with a blower 71 for forwarding a fuel and air mixture to a burner plate 21 where the mixture is burned. The plate 21 is mounted, with finned heat exchanger tubing 3, in a case 4. A burner body 5, through which the mixture of air and fuel is conducted to the burner, is connected to the burner case 4 with thermal insulating material in the form of gaskets 11,12 interposed between the burner case and the burner body to prevent excess heating of the burner body. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2186033-A (GB)
Title: Wind turbine
Inventor: SOMERVILLE WILLIAM MURRAY
IPC: F03D1/06
Filed: 1987-01-23
Abstract: Enhanced aerodynamic lift of a wind turbine is achieved by providing each blade 12 of the turbine rotor with a longitudinally-extending pathway 14 which has an inlet 16 through which air can enter and flow through the pathway 14 and an outlet 26 located adjacent and substantially parallel to the leading edge of the blades. The outlet 26 is adapted to direct air flowing from the pathway over the blade surface towards the trailing edge of the blade 12. That flow of air adheres to the blade surface owing to the Coanda effect and, consequently, induces air flowing over the surface to accelerate thereby enhancing the aerodynamic lift experienced by the blade 12. Flow through pathway 14 may also comprise flow supplied via the rotor hub and may be controlled by valve 30 and a valve in the rotor hub. The valves may be operated by centrifugal force to close in an overspeed condition. The wind turbine may be of the horizontal or vertical axis type and the blades may be fixed or variable pitch, and twisted. Flow guides 28 may also be provided. The outlet 26 may extend over the outer 80% to 98% and the inlet 16, over the inner 5% to 35% of the blade radius. <IMAGE>