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Patent GB-2242613-A (GB)
Title: Disposable collector for animal faeces
Inventor: TREGENNA BRIAN CHARLES
IPC: E01H1/12
Filed: 1990-04-03
Abstract: The collector takes the form of a lidded shovel comprising a removeable handle (10), a shovel blade (11) and an integrating hinged cover (12). The handle has a fork (13) one limb (14) of which fits in a pocket (15) in the outside of the cover and the other limb (16) engages the back wall of the shovel blade to position the cover blade with the cover held open. By swinging the handle forward while resting the shovel blade on the ground, the collector is closed and may be removed from the handle for disposal. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2247325-A (GB)
Title: Optical fibre submarine cable armouring
Inventor: MCLEOD ANDREW JAMES
IPC: G02B6/44
Filed: 1990-08-24
Abstract: A submarine optical cable, where wire armouring is replaced by a corrugated metal tape 7, comprises a central multi-wire tensile strength member 1A, 4 containing optical films 1B, means 5 for preventing transmission loss due to hydrogen, an insulating layer 6, corrugated tube 7 tightly engaging the insulating layer and a sheath 8. Also shown are thermoplastic elastomeric, metallic pressure tube 2 and water-blocking compound 3. The tube 7 may be of steel or aluminium alloy. Means 5 may be a copper tube. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2236455-A (GB)
Title: Automatic telephone alarm
Inventor: BUTLIN STEPHEN EDWARD
IPC: H04M11/04
Filed: 1990-09-27
Abstract: A telephone subset 31 coupled to ancillary equipment such as a burglar alarm initiates a telephone call in response to receipt of an activating stimulus by creating an offhook state. Mechanical or electrical means 34 holds a memory/redial switch 35 of the handset 32 in an activated state such that upon activation a predetermined number is called and a prerecorded message stored on a conventional tape recorder is then delivered. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2237916-A (GB)
Title: Signature verification
Inventor: PARKS JOHN RONALD
IPC: G06V10/75
Filed: 1990-11-09
Abstract: A signature is captured using a special pen 10 to write on an area 13 having horizontal lines. Signals characteristic of signatures derived in this way are analysed and stored. It has been discovered that many false rejections of true signatures are due to variations of certain types such as hesitations which occur when the pen tip is off the writing area between inked segments of the signature. Such time variations are allowed for by, for example, modifying the measurements obtained from the trial signature to remove the effect of these variations if a rejection occurs and then comparing the modified measurements with the stored measurements to determine whether the trial signature can now be accepted. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2240192-A (GB)
Title: Image creation and display
Inventor: EUSTACE IAN DOUGLAS
IPC: G09F19/18
Filed: 1991-01-16
Abstract: An environment 1 for occupation by one or a plurality of mammals, for example humans, comprising a room having a boundary surface of walls 2, floor, and a ceiling 4, means 5 to create a mobile visual imagery on the boundary surface, and means 6 to apply the imagery to the boundary surface so that it is viewable from inside the room. The means 5 is a video film means and there may be as many means 6 as there are surfaces e.g. six in the example shown. The walls 2 and floor and ceiling 4 are transparent, as is a door 7 for entry into the room. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2252905-A (GB)
Title: Pantothenic acid, salts or its precursors for enhancing athletic performance
Inventor: LEUNG LIT-HUNG
IPC: A61K31/195
Filed: 1991-02-11
Abstract: Pantothenic acid, salts or derivatives thereof which will give rise to pantothenic acid in the body to form Coenzyme A, is administered in a dosage range of 20mg to 20g a day in divided doses, to ensure the synthesis of the optimum level of androgenic steroids, to produce an effect of improvement in sense of well-being, athletic performance and exercise tolerance.
Patent GB-2249849-A (GB)
Title: Motor speed control
Inventor: COCKCROFT JAMES B
IPC: H02P7/295
Filed: 1991-03-18
Abstract: A speed control circuit for a permanent magnet motor 20 utilizing full wave rectified current and including an SCR 30 controlled by a circuit responsive to the counter- or back-EMF of the motor which is compared to a reference voltage produced in a transistor circuit, the resulting level of conduction of the transistor 58 determining the time taken to charge an RC network which controls the firing of the SCR. The portion of back emf fed to the transistor is selectively adjustable by means of speed-setting potentiometer 44. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2255972-A (GB)
Title: Production of diaryl carbonates.
Inventor: HARRISON GEORGE EDWIN
IPC: C07C68/06
Filed: 1991-04-12
Abstract: A diaryl carbonate is produced by transesterification of a dialkyl carbonate, such as dimethyl carbonate, with an aromatic hydroxy compound, such as phenol, in three successive reaction zones. A transesterification catalyst, such as a titanate ester or ester mixture is used in each zone. Conditions are selected to maximise formation of alkyl aryl carbonate in the first and second reaction zones, whilst conversion to diaryl carbonate is favoured in the third reaction zone. The vaporous mixture from the first two reaction zones is a mixture containing alkyl alcohol, dialkyl carbonate, alkyl aryl carbonate and aromatic hydroxy compound. This mixture is separated in an alkyl alcohol recovery zone by distillation in the distillation columns to produce useful recycle streams. The second of these distillation columns can be operated at a lower pressure than the first, thus enabling the heat of vaporisation of this mixture to be used as the source of heat for the reboiler of the second distillation column of the alkyl alcohol recovery zone.
Patent GB-2255514-A (GB)
Title: Filter element
Inventor: BRADFORD PETER FRANCIS
IPC: B01D27/07
Filed: 1991-05-09
Abstract: A filter element 12 comprises two strips of filter paper wound spirally round an impervious centre tube 13 and secured together by adhesive along their edges to present a zig-zag radial section designed for axial flow. To minimise manufacturing problems and ensure good adhesive seals, the ratio between outer and inner diameters of the element is between 1.15:1 and 1.3:1. As shown, the perforate end plate 15 of the element is clamped between two parts 17, 21 of a fuel filter housing. Fuel flows from inlet 26 to outlet 27, and the interior space of the element provides room for water and possibly fine solids to settle and may accommodate a hand priming pump and a heater. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2246072-A (GB)
Title: Pharmaceutical compositions stabilised against light
Inventor: NAGY MARGIT
IPC: A61K9/28
Filed: 1991-07-19
Abstract: Compositions, e.g. soft gelatin capsules. contain a light-sensitive active ingredient optionally sparingly soluble in water, e.g. nifedipine and also contain a vegetable dye. The dye ensures reliable light protection during manufacturing operations and improves the solubility of nifedipine in certain carriers. The dye may be included also in the capsule wall and is e.g. chlorophyll, caramel, saffron yellow or beetroot dye. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2259010-A (GB)
Title: Picture frame
Inventor: FOLLOWS RAYMOND PAUL
IPC: A47G1/06
Filed: 1991-08-29
Abstract: A picture frame 11 has a removable back panel 16 made of a smaller flat hardboard sheet 18 glued face to face with a larger shoot 17, forming a relatively raised and forwardly projecting central portion with square cut edges surrounded by a rebate 21. The frame just fits into the rebate while the central portion of the panel projects forwardly into the frame. A leaf spring 30 is held in position on one edge of the sheet 18 by a clamp 32 which is located over the spring and hold in position by a rivet 34 before the sheet is glued to the larger sheet 17, so that no fixing means is visible when the frame is closed by the panel, which is dimensioned overall to conform to the outline of the frame. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2248858-A (GB)
Title: Vacuum toilet system with treated rinse liquid
Inventor: OLDFELT SVEN
IPC: B64D11/02
Filed: 1991-10-03
Abstract: The performance of a toilet system for a transport vehicle in which waste deposited in a waste-receiving bowl (64) is flushed with rinse liquid as it is withdrawn by vacuum into a sewer pipe is enhanced by adding a metered amount of reagent (from 74) to the rinse liquid (from 68) to enhance the flush and act on the flushed waste. The vacuum toilet system comprises:       (a) a toilet bowl having an outlet opening for waste, (b) a sewer pipe having an interior space for receiving the waste and leading to at least one holding tank, (c) a discharge valve connecting the outlet opening of the toilet bowl to the sewer pipe. (d) a source of partial vacuum for establishing a substantially lower pressure in the interior space of the sewer pipe than in the toilet bowl thereby creating a pressure difference of a magnitude sufficient for providing effective sewage transport in the sewer pipe, (e) means defining a rinse liquid outlet for introducing rinse liquid into the toilet bowl to flush the latter,   (f) means for supplying rinse liquid to the rinse liquid outlet, (g) a container for reagent in communication with the rinse liquid outlet, (h) reagent in the container selected to enhance the flush and act on the flushed waste in the at least one holding tank, and (i) means for introducing a selected volume of said reagent from the container into the toilet bowl by way of the rinse liquid outlet on the occasion of each flush, whereby the additions of reagent to the at least one holding tank are incremental and related to usage of the system.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2252427-A (GB)
Title: Positional deviation correction for an object conveyed on a production line
Inventor: SETO SHIGEO
IPC: H05K13/08
Filed: 1991-11-26
Abstract: Objects 3 are conveyed on pallets 2 on a production line. A recognition station 20, through which a pallet 2 mounted with an object 3 firstly passes, recognizes the positional deviation of the object from a standard position and stores it in a memory 4 provided on said pallet. Next, an adjusting station 30 reads out the above-mentioned positional deviation from the memory 4 and adds it to the standard position, thereby enabling the positional deviation of the object to be corrected using an adjusting means 12. Only one recognition station 20 is thereby required for a plurality of adjusting stations 30. The objects 3 may be variable resistors on printed circuit boards. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2267719-A (GB)
Title: A partition element with means for distributing electrical services
Inventor: BARNETT STEVEN
IPC: E04B2/74
Filed: 1992-06-08
Abstract: A partition element (10) includes an upright partition panel (11), a hollow housing (19) extending horizontally along the upper edge of the partition panel (10) and means (14; 18) for securing the partition panel rigidly to the floor. The securing means is either an enlarged foot (18) secured at one end of the partition element and extending beyond the partition element at least in a direction transverse thereto, and optionally an elongate plate (14) extending along the partition element beneath the partition panel (11). Thus, the partition element (10) may be supported both transversely and longitudinally. The advantage is that cables may readily be distributed horizontally in a room, by making a wall of adjoining partition elements, which divide up, e.g. an open-plan office. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2264353-A (GB)
Title: Electrode melting furnace
Inventor: KREPEL ROLF
IPC: F27D99/00
Filed: 1992-10-07
Abstract: A remelting furnace comprises a crucible 2 and a liftable chamber 3 positioned on the crucible. An electrode rod 6 to be melted extends into the chamber through a sealed opening and into the crucible. A platform 9 is connected to the chamber by a lost motion coupling 16, 17 and can be raised by a lifting device supported by a weighing platform 21 together with the electrode rod. This allows the weight of the electrode rod to be measured uninfluenced by friction forces of the seal 8 in the opening in the chamber and enables the chamber to be lifted without increasing the overall height of the remelting furnace. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2261934-A (GB)
Title: A thermostatically controlled valve
Inventor: SAUR ROLAND
IPC: F01P7/16
Filed: 1992-11-17
Abstract: A thermostatically controlled valve 1 for the cooling system of an I. C. engine has a housing defining three fluid flow connections 3, 4, 8 for a fluid medium to be distributed or mixed, whereby two connection cross-sectional areas 3, 4 are controlled by an annular sliding valve closure member 14. The member 14 is operated by an extending thermostat element 22 which on the one hand is supported against a restoring spring 23 and on the other hand is supported by way of a piston-rod 27 against an abutment 28 in a housing cover 12. The connection 8 accommodates an abutment 24 for the restoring spring 23 and is adapted to be inserted and sealed in an uptake opening 5 of a housing 2. A cover connection 11 is disposed on the end of the valve housing opposite to and aligned with the connection 8 and the housing cover 12 extends into the cover connection 11. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2275608-A (GB)
Title: A tamper-resistant electrically heated vapour dispensing apparatus
Inventor: THOMPSON GUY RICHARD
IPC: A61L9/03
Filed: 1993-03-02
Abstract: An electrically heatable dispensing apparatus is constructed and arranged to receive a container 1 of volatile material. An integral electrical heater is provided to heat the volatile material to diffuse vapourised material into the surrounding atmosphere. The apparatus has electrical contacts 12 for connecting it to an electrical power source to operate the heater, the electrical contacts extending outwardly from one surface 25 of the apparatus. A locking device 30 is provided which is slidable within the body through the surface from which the electrical contacts extend so that in use the locking device cannot be operated whilst the electrical contacts are plugged into an electrical outlet socket constituting the power source. Therefore, the container containing the volatile material cannot be removed during use of the apparatus thereby preventing direct access to the volatile material in the container. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2278080-A (GB)
Title: Interlocking building block
Inventor: MCCOLLUM DERMOT DENNIS
IPC: E04B2/02
Filed: 1993-04-16
Abstract: A concrete building block has U-shaped channels and projections for interlocking with other, similar blocks. The blocks may be made in a shaped mould subdivided by members having U-shaped portions flanked by flat portions to mould channels and projections. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2277955-A (GB)
Title: Clamp
Inventor: RODGER KATHLEEN
IPC: A45B11/00
Filed: 1993-05-15
Abstract: A clamp for securing an umbrella to a push chair handle comprises an umbrella stem holder 1 having at one end a handle clamp provided with opposed jaws 4 brought into clamping engagement with an interposed handle by a bolt and wing nut 5. The handle clamp is connected to the umbrella holder by an angle adjusting hinge 2 comprising serrated plates tightened together by a bolt and wing nut 3. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2278692-A (GB)
Title: A helmet display system
Inventor: WILSON GERALD HUGH
IPC: G02B27/00
Filed: 1993-06-04
Abstract: A helmet display system is provided comprising a display visor 3 located on helmet 1 on which helmet is also positioned image projection means 5 for projecting an image to eye 6 via a holographic combiner 4 on the display visor 3. The helmet further comprises an anti-glare visor 2 which has optical transmission characteristics similar to those of a neutral density visor, with the exception that these characteristics are modified by a transmission peak at the frequencies within a narrow waveband to which the combiner 4 is tuned to compensate for the low transmission value of the display visor 3 to these frequencies. The invention provides a helmet display system which can be used in conjunction with an aircraft head-up display if required. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2269157-A (GB)
Title: Winding drum assembly
Inventor: BELLFIELD ROY GERALD
IPC: B65H75/22
Filed: 1993-07-06
Abstract: A drum for cable or the like, which may be disassembled, comprises end flanges 1, 3 and a core made in at least two (5, 7) segments. In order to avoid the need to provide securing means, eg. bolt and nuts, to secure together the core segments and/or to secure the core segments to the flanges, the core segments and flanges have mutually cooperable engagement means 9, 11, 13, 15 for locating the segments non-rotatably in the flanges. Said means comprises cut-outs 11, 13 in core support rings 9, which cut-outs engage inturned edges of the core segments forming grooves 15. The flanges may be held together by tie rods within the core. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2267047-A (GB)
Title: Purifying NOx-containing gas
Inventor: ONITSUKA SHIGENORI
IPC: B01D53/56
Filed: 1993-08-05
Abstract: An apparatus for purifying an NOx-containing gas comprises an adsorptive dehumidifier i for dehumidifying the gas with a dehumidifying agent and regenerating the agent with a purified gas, and an adsorptive denitration unit 2 for denitrating the dehumidified gas. The denitration unit has an adsorbent regenerating zone provided with a channel 9 for recycling an NH3-containing regenerating gas and with a channel 10 for withdrawing a portion of the regenerating gas from the recycling channel, passing the withdrawn gas through a denitration reactor 5 and then releasing the denitrated gas into the atmosphere. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2281685-A (GB)
Title: Garden implements incorporating collection of debris.
Inventor: HOWELLS PAUL EDWARD
IPC: A01B1/06
Filed: 1993-09-09
Abstract: This invention relates to garden implements for use in tending beds, for example by hoeing, raking and rotovating, the garden implement including a support 2, a soil/vegetation disturbing element 1, means for detachably securing the element to the support, means 6 for producing a flow of pressure air, a debris collection passage 4 for conveying debris disturbed by the element from a mouth 9 disposed at an upstream end of the passage and in the region of the element, and an air outlet 8 opening into the collection passage at an upstream position for directing pressure air in a downstream direction in the passage whereby, in operation, the debris is drawn through the mouth and transported in a flow of pressure air downstream through the collection passage for collection. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2271107-A (GB)
Title: Method and composition for inhibiting general and pitting corrosion in cooling tower water
Inventor: BUCHER BRADLEY A
IPC: C23F11/18
Filed: 1993-10-08
Abstract: A method of inhibiting the pitting corrosion rate of carbon steel in a cooling tower system comprising adding to a cooling tower water an effective amount of a corrosion inhibiting composition containing from about 1 to about 10 ppm of a water soluble molybdate, calculated as molybdate and from about 5 to about 25 ppm of a stabilized phosphate, calculated as phosphate, the corrosion inhibiting composition being substantially free of active zinc, and circulating the water in the system.
Patent GB-2272859-A (GB)
Title: Multilayer nonwoven material suitable for use as surface webs for absorbent articles of hygiene
Inventor: KOCZAB JEAN PIERRE
IPC: D04H13/00
Filed: 1993-11-17
Abstract: Multilayer nonwoven material which has a high rate of drying out, improved rate of entry of, or break-through time by, body fluids and good diffusion of the body fluids in the plane of the layers, comprises at least two superposed layers (1, 2) of natural or synthetic textile fibers, joined together, the fibers of the successive layers having a denier decreasing progressively, in a given direction, from one successive layer to the other. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284680-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for displaying a suspended image
Inventor: SHANKS IAN ALEXANDER
IPC: G02B27/22
Filed: 1993-12-13
Abstract: Apparatus for displaying an image 14 suspended in space above an opaque horizontal surface such as a tabletop or vehicle dashboard 2, of an object 8 below the surface, comprises a beamsplitter window 4 in the surface and a retroreflector 6 in a path for light reflected by the beamsplitter. The original image may for example be a VDU screen, a projected image or vehicle instrument panel. One or more retroreflectors may be located above and/or below the surface 2. The object may be flat and at 90 DEG  or parallel to the surface. A louver film 12 is shown. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284800-A (GB)
Title: Automatic soap dispenser
Inventor: WILLIAMS GOMER JOHN
IPC: A47K5/12
Filed: 1993-12-17
Abstract: A soap dispenser, e.g. as used in toilets, has a soap container 3 which dispenses soap via an automatically operated soap dispenser valve attached to the outlet 4 of the soap container. The soap dispenser valve opens when the sensing circuit 5 and 6 detects a hand. The amount of soap dispensed is controlled and when the soap dispenser valve closes, the user has time to remove their hand before the sensor commences operation. The sensor 2 operates by detecting infra-red radiation from a users hand. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2293535-A (GB)
Title: A method of processing meat
Inventor: KALBASSI MOSTAFA
IPC: A23L13/50
Filed: 1994-09-30
Abstract: The invention provides a method of processing meat which comprises trimming a piece of meat (1) to a predetermined weight utilising automatic meat trimming apparatus. The piece of meat (1) is then cut to form a cavity, slot or pocket (3) having a predetermined depth utilising automatic meat cutting apparatus. A predetermined amount of filling material (2) is placed in the cavity, slot or pocket (3) and the cavity, slot or pocket (3) is then sealed. The filling operation may also be automated. Thus the method of the present invention provides a piece of natural meat of predetermined weight and shape making it suitable for mass production. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2283970-A (GB)
Title: Fixed bed process for waste water purification
Inventor: PAPE STEFAN
IPC: C02F3/06
Filed: 1994-11-18
Abstract: The invention relates to a fixed-bed process for the simultaneous decrease in the biological and chemical oxygen demand (BOD5/COD) for the nitrification and denitrification of wastewater (effluent).
Patent GB-2286149-A (GB)
Title: Circular hand saw with swing protective hood and a mitre-angel adjusting device
Inventor: SCHILLING RAINER
IPC: B27B9/02
Filed: 1995-01-17
Abstract: For a circular hand saw (10), having a saw blade (13) which is non-rotatably disposed rotatably about a saw shaft axis (11), and having a housing (12) which carries the saw shaft axis (11) and a base plate (14, 114) which carries and is movably connected to the housing (12), the housing (12) being guided so as to be capable of swivelling about two axes (16, 30, 130), which each extend at right angles to and are independent of one another, and arresting relative to the base plate (14, 114), the first axis (16) extending parallel to the saw shaft axis (11) and being used to adjust the depth of cut by means of depth-of-cut guide brackets (35, 135), and the second axis (30, 130) extending both parallel to the base plate (14, 114) and to the saw blade (11) and being used to adjust the mitre angle, the second axis (30, 130) being formed by at least one link (21, 21', 121) with guideway (22, 22', 122) and link block (23, 23' 123), a wear-insensitive, high-precision, inexpensive mitre angle adjusting device is to be provided in that the guideway (122) is formed by a free convex surface which is fixed on the base plate (114) in such a way that a ring segment of a straight or round ring disposed on the base plate (114) with its convex side directed upwards serves as a guideway (122), the centre of the ring being congruent with the axis (130) used to adjust the mitre angle. <IMAGE>