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Patent GB-2268442-A (GB)
Title: Automatic telephone dialling card with multi-stage bar code and card printer
Inventor: SAITOH SHOICHI
IPC: G06K19/06
Filed: 1993-01-29
Abstract: An information card e.g. a business card, used for information processing wherein one row of a bar code symbol and a multi-stage bar code symbol are printed on one side of the information card, while characters are printed on the other side thereof. One row of a bar code symbol 22, 24 represents telephone number data, and the multi-stage bar code symbol 26-32 represents a designated code which indicates information and specifies a processing method of the read-in information. Automatic dialling is performed by reading the bar code representing telephone number data, and the process specified in a designated code is executed by reading the multi-stage bar code. The multi-stage bar code comprises parallel rows of bar codes separated by bars (SB, Fig.3). The card printed includes a box-shaped hopper 40 for receiving a stack of the cards which are fed to the printed one-by-one 46 through a slit aperture (48, Fig.8) by means of skewed roller 44 in the base of the hopper.
Patent GB-2262944-A (GB)
Title: Gold wire
Inventor: KUJIRAOKA TAKESHI
IPC: C22C5/02
Filed: 1993-02-02
Abstract: A gold wire for use in the wire bonding of a semiconductor device comprising the elements Ca 1-20, Mg 1-10, Rare Earth Element(s) 1-90, all the figures being in p.p.m. by weight, the balance being Au of high purity.
Patent GB-2276349-A (GB)
Title: Printing of porous substrates.
Inventor: FREIERMUTH BEAT
IPC: C23F1/16
Filed: 1993-03-25
Abstract: Process for the printing of porous substrate surfaces, eg. glass fibre fabrics, comprising   a) etching the surface of the substrate, to render it porous, by contacting the surface of the substrate with a strong inorganic or strong organic acid; and then, in either sequence; b) impregnating the porous substrate surface so obtained with a metal salt or a water-soluble cationic metal complex; and c) thermotransfer printing the porous substrate surface, using a disperse dye which is capable of forming a chelate compound with the metal cation of the metal salt.
Patent GB-2266624-A (GB)
Title: Auto-cancel device
Inventor: UMEZAWA KAZUNORI
IPC: H01H3/16
Filed: 1993-04-19
Abstract: An auto cancel device on a steering shaft 1 of an automobile for allowing a manually operated lever of a direction indicator switch to return automatically to a neutral position upon termination of a turn comprises a housing 7 mountable on the steering shaft 1, a cancel cam 11 within the housing 7 and secured to the steering shaft 1 for rotation therewith and a cancel pin 10 between the cancel cam 11 and the operating lever for transmitting movement from the cancel cam 11 to the operating lever when the steering shaft 1 is rotated in the opposite direction upon termination of a turn so as to return the operating lever to its neutral position. A spring 23 is interposed between the cancel cam 11 and a member 22 which is rotatable with the steering shaft 1 whereby relative sliding movement of one of the spring ends producing noise is avoided. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-931077-A (GB)
Abstract: 931,077. Electric selective signalling systems. FABRIQUES MOVADO. Aug. 27, 1959 [Aug. 27, 1958], No. 29343/59. Class 40 (1). [Also in Groups XIX, XXXIX and XL (c)] An indicating device for an electronic counter comprises at least one transformer with a primary winding fed from a source of pulsating current, a secondary winding connected to a gas discharge tube and a control winding connected to a stage of an electronic counter such that the stage determines the value of the induced voltage in the secondary winding and controls the illumination of the discharge tube. As shown, Fig. 1, a binary counter stage comprises transistors A1, A2 controlling, over coils 01, O2, the saturation of the cores of transformers T1, T2 the primaries P1, P2 of which are supplied with impulses from a generator G.. When the transistor A1 is conducting and the transistor A2 non-conducting, the core of the transformer T1 is saturated and the core of the transformer T2 is non-saturated, the impulses induced in the secondary S1 being insufficient to operate a discharge tube L1. The impulses induced in the secondary S2, however, are sufficient to operate a discharge tube L2. In the other stable state of the countiug stage, the tube L1 is operated and the tube L2 is not. In a modification, Fig. 4, for a decade counter, there are provided two binary stages E1 and E2 each comprising two transformers T1, T2 and T3, T4 and a ternary stage E3 comprising three transformers T 5' T6, T7' only the secondary windings of the transformers being shown. The three states of the ternary stage are detarmined by the saturation of two of the three transformer cores. The transformers T1 and T2 each have two secondary windings S1, S1<SP>1> and S2, S2<SP>1> in series with respective secondary windings S3, S4 of the transformers T3, T 4' Each discharge tube Lo- L, is in series with three secondary windings as shown, the arrangement being such that a tube is operated only when " amplified " impulses are developed in all three of them.
Patent GB-2282159-A (GB)
Title: Wall tie for joining to existing vertical surface
Inventor: SAMMONS RONALD CHARLES
IPC: E04B1/41
Filed: 1993-09-22
Abstract: A masonry or wall tie comprises a pair of spaced substantially rectangular leaves 1, 2 adapted to rest on the surface of a masonry course, a perpendicular flange section 3 adapted to abut an existing vertical surface, and a bridging section having a substantially right angle bend 5 joining the leaves to the flange. The flange has a length and width which correspond with the dimensions of the space 7 between the leaves. The flange also carries a vertical slot 8 which permits the passage of a fixing device into the existing vertical surface. The tie is preferably fabricated from a corrosion resistant metal such as galvanised steel or stainless steel. Preferably the leaves carry small flanges, ribs or indentations (eg. 9, 10) and the bend in the bridging section includes ribs 6 to increase rigidity. The thickness of the metal strip used to fabricate the tie lies in the range 0.5 to 5 mm, preferably 0.9 mm. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2278399-A (GB)
Title: Door checks for vehicles
Inventor: MORRIS BARRY STANLEY
IPC: E05B15/16
Filed: 1993-02-19
Abstract: A door check for vehicles comprises a housing (1) which houses a restraining mechanism (7) for applying a frictional restraining force to a strap (4) acting as the check. The housing (1) comprises a first component (10) for attachment to a door (2), a second component (11) in the form of a block, and locking means for securing the two components together. One of the components, preferably of metal, is of channel section having side flanges (17), and the other component, which is preferably of synthetic plastics, has side edges received between the flanges. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2281738-A (GB)
Title: Controlling web tension in logitudinal folders
Inventor: GNUECHTEL HERMAN C
IPC: B65H45/22
Filed: 1994-09-07
Abstract: The tension in a web 16b is controlled in the Vicinity of a longitudinal folder 44. From a printer (not shown) web 16 passes round roll 22, where it is nipped at 24 and slit at 26. The contact at roll 22 enables web tensions upstream and downstream of the roll to differ. Downstream of the folder, the speed of driven roll 52 is governed in response to sensed web tension to produce a desired tension value between rolls 22 and 52. Roll 52 may have an abrasive surface. A second web 18b may pass with web 16b through the folder. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2283966-A (GB)
Title: Pulp mouldings
Inventor: COOK JOHN EDWARD
IPC: D21J7/00
Filed: 1994-11-09
Abstract: A pulp moulding (100) which is used to package an article, e.g. an egg (102), has a region (110) which does not initially contact the article (102) and a region (103) which does initially contact the article. Region (103) is of a thickness different from that of region (110). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2294893-A (GB)
Title: Tapping tool
Inventor: WENBAN MALCOLM
IPC: B23G1/48
Filed: 1994-11-11
Abstract: A tapping tool 1 is provided which loads and guides a tap 11 during the formation of a screw thread in a hole. The tool comprises two telescopically interconnected members 2, 3 which are biased towards an extended length by a spring 7. In use, the tool is brought into engagement with the end of the tap and is placed under compression such that a load is provided on the tap along its axis towards the hole. The tool is configured to keep the end of the tap on the axis of the hole during manual rotation of the tap, and therefore the accuracy of the gauge of the hole is maintained. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284634-A (GB)
Title: Security glazing beads
Inventor: HOLLOWAY JOHN
IPC: E06B3/62
Filed: 1994-12-07
Abstract: A window system having a glazing panel 3 held within a frame 2 by elongated glazing beads 5 disposed between the panel and the frame externally of the panel characterised in that at least one of the beads has a part or parts 22 extending inwardly of the panel and is releasably secured relative to the frame by means accessible only internally of the panel. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2293973-A (GB)
Title: Movement inducing apparatus for pram or pushchair based on mat with undulating surface or wheel or attachment therefor with varying radius
Inventor: JONAS JOHN HAROLD
IPC: B62B9/22
Filed: 1995-01-04
Abstract: An apparatus for inducing rocking and/or movement sensation to a pram or pushchair comprising means to vary the distance between the axle and the ground as the wheel of the pram or pushchair rotates. The means may comprise a surface (11, figure 1) situated on the ground having a varying profile (12 - 14, Figure 1) so that up and down motion is imparted to the pram as a wheel is wheeled along the surface. Alternatively the means may comprise wither a wheel of different radii around its circumference or means (21 and 24, Figure 3A) engagable with the wheel so as to provide a varying effective radius around the circumference of the wheel. The rocking and/or motion sensation encourages a baby to sleep. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2302152-A (GB)
Title: Pipeline renovation
Inventor: JONES GERALD MELVILLE AUBREY
IPC: B29C63/36
Filed: 1995-06-09
Abstract: A thin walled tubular membrane 11 around the periphery thereof is secured at a region to the inside or outside wall of the pipe. The membrane is secured so that it is held open at the region of securement for liquid or gas to flow therethrough. As the liquid or gas flows through the open end of the membrane, the tube is drawn along the length of pipe and is held against the wall of the pipe by the flow of the liquid or gas. Initially, the pipe is stopped at a section, a bypass provided to continue fluid flow and a new section 10 put in, this containing the membrane 11, optionally gathered in a side container 14.
Patent GB-2314636-A (GB)
Title: Soil testing probe machine
Inventor: READ STEPHEN WILLIAM
IPC: G01N3/34
Filed: 1996-06-25
Abstract: A dynamic probe machine comprises a probe 24 and an anvil 19 mounted on the probe. A weight 17 may be raised above the anvil by a chain 29 and rotor members 20 (and 21 fig.1) driven through a clutch 31 by a drive motor 22 and allowed to fall under gravity. A rotary encoder 31 measures the distance the height is raised and the position of the anvil 19 is sensed by a multi-turn potentiometer (44). Blow count and penetration are displayed on digital indicators and can be transferred to a computer for data logging. This information is used to provide an indication of the ground penetrated by the probe.
Patent GB-2307281-A (GB)
Title: Fuel-injection pump for internal combustion engines
Inventor: RODRIGUEZ-AMAYA NESTOR
IPC: F02M41/14
Filed: 1996-10-25
Abstract: A fuel-injection pump for internal combustion engines comprises a moving part 3, such as a distributor, which is mounted in a housing bore 2 and has on its outer surface an exit orifice 8 subject to high pressure. On the outer surface 9 of the part 3 or in the wall of the housing bore 2, at least one closed annular groove 18 is provided adjacent to the exit orifice. By way of the annular groove 18, pressure of the pressure field 17, which prevails in the region of the exit orifice 8, is distributed in a more uniform manner onto the circumference of the moving part 3 thus providing a mounting with improved distribution of lubrication and which is less likely to suffer damage or wear.
Patent GB-2303550-A (GB)
Title: Colonic drug delivery composition
Inventor: WATTS PETER
IPC: A61K9/52
Filed: 1995-06-21
Abstract: A colonic drag delivery composition is provided and comprises a starch capsule containing a drug, the starch capsule being provided with a coating such that the drug will only be released from the capsule in the colon. The coating may be a pH-sensitive material, a redox-sensitive material or a material broken dawn by specific enzymes or bacteria present in the colon. The drug to be delivered may be one for local action in the colon, or a systemically active drug to be absorbed from the colon.
Patent GB-2309055-A (GB)
Title: Push-rod gear-selection mechanism
Inventor: TRINDER GRAHAM
IPC: F16H63/18
Filed: 1997-01-10
Abstract: The selector rings of a countershaft gearbox are moved axially of the mainshaft to engage and disengage the gears 1, 2 by respective pairs of push-rods 15 and 16 which extend inwardly between the gears. The push-rods 15 and 16 bear on oppositely-inclined faces 22 of pairs of blocks 17 which slide in slots 18 parallel to the mainshaft and which engage respective selector rings at diametrically opposite locations. Actuation of one pair of rods 15 or 16 causes their blocks 17 and the engaged ring to move in one direction whereas actuation of the other pair causes movement in the opposite direction. The rods 15 and 16 slide within mounting blocks 19 inset between pairs of the gears 1-6, and are actuated by the cam surface of a longitudinally-driven rack 25. Alternatively, the push-rods 47 and 48 (Fig 8) are actuated by individual hydraulic rams 45,46.
Patent GB-2321093-A (GB)
Title: Locking or latching of bolts
Inventor: SAXELBY-ROBERTS ERIC
IPC: F16B35/00
Filed: 1997-01-14
Abstract: A flexible core (or cores) is slidable in a bolt body so as to bend to project through a cut-out in the side of the body, in order to prevent withdrawal of the bolt body from a fixed item C. Where a nut is mounted on the bolt, the tip of the flexible core engages in a cut-out in the nut. The flexible core has a cross bar for advance and withdrawal, or operation may be mechanical, or electrical, or spring loaded. The core may have flexible or hinged parts, and the body may also be flexible.
Patent GB-2320815-A (GB)
Title: Antenna assembly including circuit cover
Inventor: DAVIDSON BRIAN JAMES
IPC: H01Q9/40
Filed: 1997-01-20
Abstract: An antenna assembly comprises an antenna 1, a circuit board 6 and components 9, and means 4, 8 for covering the circuitry whilst also retaining the antenna in physical connection to the circuit unit when the antenna and the circuit unit are brought together. Additionally, this device cover and retaining means 4, 8 takes the form of a deformable electrical coupler which provides an electrical coupling between the antenna and the circuit unit when the antenna and the circuit unit are brought together. The antenna is fixed via its ground region 3 to the cover 4, and this cover engages with lower member 8 and sprung pin 5 when the antenna unit is compressed onto the circuit unit. The cover 4 and lower member 8 are electrically conductive and make the ground connection between the antenna and the circuit. The sprung pin 5 makes the electrical feed connection to the antenna. The cover and retaining means may also act as a shielding device.
Patent GB-2322977-A (GB)
Title: Electrical connectors, lamps and lampholders
Inventor: BIRCH ANDREW CLIFFORD
IPC: H01R33/945
Filed: 1997-03-05
Abstract: A neon such as 55 or an LED can be built into a lamp, a lampholder, or into an electric power connector to indicate the presence of electric power at load contacts only when there is no load present at the load contacts or only when the load fails. Therefore, a user can safely switch off the power supply at the local switch and the neon on LED indicates when this has safely been done.
Patent GB-2324480-A (GB)
Title: Self sealing valve
Inventor: BASEVI LICINIO JOHN
IPC: A63H27/10
Filed: 1997-04-17
Abstract: A self sealing valve which may be attached to a plastic film balloon, is made up of three components these being an upper plastic film panel 3 perforated with an inlet hole 3A, an intermedially placed smooth surfaced washer 2 and a lower smooth surfaced flexible film panel 1. The intermedially placed washer is affixed to the underside of the upper flexible panel, its hole 2A coaxially aligned with the inlet hole of the upper flexible panel; peripherially on three sides 5A,5B,5C the lower panel being joined to the underside of the upper panel by way of a continuous "U" shaped heat seal weld ,the fourth side 5D remaining unsealed to provide an outlet of the valve into the balloon cavity . The self sealing valve upper panel film material that surrounds its inlet hole is affixed to the inner surface of the balloon film envelope (6, Figure 8) coaxially with the balloon inlet hole (6A) and externally the balloon film material surrounding the balloon inlet hole is protected by a decorative washer (9) affixed to it coaxially with the inlet.
Patent GB-2316576-A (GB)
Title: An apparatus for connecting a caller to a service provider on the basis of their response to an automatic announcement
Inventor: KUROIWA SHINGO
IPC: H04M3/60
Filed: 1997-08-22
Abstract: When a call is received by the service provider an automatic announcement is generated by announcement sending part 8 and is sent to the caller requesting the caller to speak a keyword or perform a specific operation such as inputting a number on a keypad. If the caller's response contains the keyword as determined by the speech recognition part 9, or the correct number is input via the keypad, the caller is connected to the service provider. If no response is received, the announcement may be repeated in a different language. Applications include the rejection of international prank phone calls and remote medical services.
Patent GB-2318746-A (GB)
Title: Table-top football game
Inventor: WATANABE TOSHIYUKI
IPC: A63F9/04
Filed: 1997-10-16
Abstract: A game for simulating football, hockey, rugby, etc, comprises a ball 1 and a hitting tool 2 for hitting the ball 1. The hitting tool 2 may be spring loaded (figs 3, 4) and the ball 1 may be hemispherical, hemiellipsoidal or disc-shaped (fig 2). The game board may be checked with oppositely coloured squares whereby players must ensure that the projected ball only stops on their own coloured squares. A die in the form of a pencil 4 may be used to dictate the number of hits of the ball a player can make. The hitting tool 2 may have a hole (21a fig 4) so that it can be used as a pencil cap.
Patent GB-2330809-A (GB)
Title: Extendable back wheels for a three wheeled vehicle
Inventor: KERSTEIN ANTHONY
IPC: B60B35/10
Filed: 1997-10-29
Abstract: A vehicle has back wheels 6,9 attached to parallel bars 1, which are held beneath a fixed plate 3 by a bracket 2. The bars may be extended by hand or by a mechanism, and are held in place in either position by locking pins 13B fitting into holes 13,13A in the plate 3 and the bars 1. The wheel 6 is connected to a driving mechanism 11 by a sliding shaft 8. The arrangement combines the stability of a three wheeled vehicle with the manoeuvrability and ease of parking of a two wheeled vehicle.
Patent GB-2331756-A (GB)
Title: Resilient synthetic surfaces
Inventor: COLLINS MARTIN ANDREW
IPC: E01C13/06
Filed: 1997-11-28
Abstract: An admixture for incorporation into a synthetic surface such as a gallop for horses comprises granules of fibre reinforced rubber which have been treated to tease out the reinforcement to give elongated flexible lengths to some of which bits of rubber are still attached.
Patent GB-2319083-A (GB)
Title: Device for sensing gas in closed chambers to be checked
Inventor: BOMBE DIDIER
IPC: G01N1/22
Filed: 1997-06-02
Abstract: The device is characterised in that it comprises: one ring-shaped sensor (1) body comprising a main part (3) delimiting a sensor chamber (5) extended by a threaded part (6) as well as a skirt (4) around the sensing chamber (5) and defining a support surface (8) to be fixed on the wall (10) of the can or bag to be checked, a tubular connecting screw (2) coupled with continuous analysing means and designed to co-operate with the sensor (1) body, and sensing means capable of cutting or perforating the wall (10) of the can or bag to be checked so as to allow the gases, if any emitted in this can or bag, to enter the internal conduit (11) of the connecting screw (2) to be sensed by the continuous analysing means.
Patent GB-2324479-A (GB)
Title: Combination cycle/rowing machine
Inventor: RAFFO DAVID M
IPC: A63B21/005
Filed: 1998-02-18
Abstract: A re-configurable arm member (20) operable in alternate upstanding (Fig. 1) and recumbent (Fig. 2) configurations allows the machine to be used, respectively, to provide a first mode of exercise, such as cycling, where the user is supported in such an upright position as to be able to exercise at least his/her lower body, and to provide a second mode of exercise, such as rowing, where the user is supported in such a recumbent position as to allow the user to exercise at least his/her upper body. The re-configurable arm member (20) is pivotally mounted so as to be movable between a first, upright position (Fig. 1) and a second, recumbent position (Fig. 2) and is self-locking in either position.
Patent GB-2336174-A (GB)
Title: Collapsible step ladder
Inventor: WESTON JAMES THOMAS
IPC: E06C1/18
Filed: 1998-04-04
Abstract: A telescopically collapsible step ladder (10) comprises two legs (12,14) each having rungs (12a-e, 14a-c). The legs (12,14) are hinged together, and each is formed of telescopically collapsible sections having latch mechanisms in each of the rungs (12a-e, 14a-c) for automatically locking the sections in a leg (12 or 14) when the leg is extended. The latch mechanisms in each rung (12a-e, 14a-c) are designed to release the next high section above a rung (12a-e, 14a-c) when said rung is collapsed against the rung immediately below it. The separation of the rungs (14a-c) on one of the legs (14) when the ladder is extended is greater than that of the rungs (12a-e) on the other leg (12). A further collapsible extension (22) may be provided projecting above the hinge (16) between the legs (12a-e, 14a-c), to which may be fitted a tray (24).
Patent GB-2337746-A (GB)
Title: A sealed container
Inventor: KOMAROMY TREVOR JOHN STEPHEN
IPC: B65D79/00
Filed: 1998-05-26
Abstract: A container comprises a base 16 and lid 1 which are sealed peripherally together and of which one is capable of flexing, and thus distorting, as a consequence of a pressure variation within the so-sealed container, wherein a predefined portion of the wall area of the base and/or lid 4 is, in preference to the remainder of the wall area of the base and/or lid, arranged to flex inwardly and/or outwardly of the container, to compensate for any variation in the pressure within the container, thereby preventing any distortion of the remainder of the wall area of the base and/or lid. Furthermore, one of the base 16 and lid 1 may include at least one projecting lug, such as a castellation 15, which is located inwardly of the corresponding flange 3 or other outwardly projecting rim and which is engaged snugly with a complementary inner portion of the other of the base and lid. The container may contain a fresh meat product preserved in a mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide.