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Patent GB-2139655-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for use in the set- back tipping of neckties
Inventor: BENNISON MICHAEL NEWSTEAD
IPC: D05B73/12
Filed: 1984-05-24
Abstract: A jig for use in set-back tipping of neckties. The jig has a lower plate 2 on which a lining fabric may be supported and a fulling plate 26 for lowering onto the lining fabric. The lower plate 12 defines a stitching line having an end corner and two side corners. The upper surface of the fulling plate, over which a face fabric may be laid, has pleat forming means in the form of blades 32, 34 and 36 for forming in the face fabric fulling pleats extending towards the three end corners. An upper plate 4 may be lowered into position to hold the face fabric, plate 4 having openings through which the blades project. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2141719-A (GB)
Title: Ethylene polymer compositions
Inventor: BINDER LUDWIG
IPC: C08L23/06
Filed: 1984-06-19
Abstract: Compositions of high molecular weight low pressure polyethylene having a very high molecular weight, a melt index of from 0.1 to 20g/10 min. measured with a 21.6 kg weight and ethylene- (meth)acrylate copolymers 1-25% weight of the polyethylene can be prepared and further treated at required high temperatures without giving off corrosive acid degradation products. They are particularly suitable for the production of pipes and cable materials, and especially for crosslinked pipes. Compositions containing additives, such as organic additives and fillers, are advantageously prepared using the ethylene-(meth)acrylate copolymer as carrier material for the additives.
Patent GB-2144917-A (GB)
Title: Membrane switches
Inventor: HILTON GEOFFREY THOMAS
IPC: H01H13/702
Filed: 1984-08-08
Abstract: A membrane switch has a printed circuit board (20) carrying bare copper electrical circuitry (26) and contacts (26 & 28). A flexible, laminar membrane (22) overlays the board (20) and also carries a bare-copper contact (24). An electrically insulating spacer (3) is provided between the board (20) and the membrane, but is provided with an opening to allow the contact (24) upon local depression of the membrane to bridge the contacts (26 & 28) in the base board (20).   The membrane (22) is adhesively sealed to the base board (20) enclosing an atmosphere (eg nitrogen) of limited tarnishing ability for the contacts (20, 26 & 28) to maintain a low contact resistance and allow non-precious metals to be used for contacts. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2155970-A (GB)
Title: Wall cladding
Inventor: UGA SHIZUO
IPC: E04F13/08
Filed: 1984-12-13
Abstract: A wall-facing assembly comprises tiles 15 having grooves 10,11 in the rear face mounted on support members 4, 30 having angled ribs 6, 7, 31, 32 which engage in the grooves 10, 11; resilient separators 12, 39 are arranged to prevent vertical movement of the tiles. The support members are spaced from the wall by ribs 8,9 and the tiles may be spaced from the support members by spacers 33. The ribs 6,7,31,32 may be arranged as water drains. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2156603-A (GB)
Title: Flat cable
Inventor: MOORE HAYDEN ALBERT
IPC: H01B7/08
Filed: 1985-03-08
Abstract: A flat cable (10) which enables adjustment of the spacing of its leads (12) to accommodate the spacing of terminals to which the leads may be connected includes bond zones (22, 24, 26) where the leads are bonded together, and free zones (28, 30, 32) where the leads are unbonded and therefore free to move apart and together. The bond and free zones are arranged in a pattern (34, 36) that repeats itself along the length of the cable. The free zones of the pattern include at least one connect zone (28) having a length (B) along the length of the cable, which is less than the width (W) of the cable, to enable slight adjustment of the lead spacing to match the spacing of the terminals to which the leads can be connected, while ensuring that the leads are maintained at approximately the terminal spacing prior to connection to the terminals. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2158082-A (GB)
Title: Amino-formaldehyde resin moulding composition
Inventor: TAYLOR DAVID
IPC: C08J3/21
Filed: 1985-04-25
Abstract: A method for the manufacture of an amino-formaldehyde moulding composition comprising curable amino formaldehyde resin and filler in which the resin and filler are compounded together under such conditions as to leave the resin in a state in which it will flow and cure under heat and pressure and wherein the components of the composition which are compounded together comprise:   a) an aqueous amino-formaldehyde resin solution which is used in an amount such as to provide curable amino-formaldehyde resin to make up 0 to 90 percent by weight of the resin component of moulding composition. b) at least one filler in an amount such as to make up 20 to 60 percent by weight of the moulding composition and c) a urea-formaldehyde resin which is solid at room temperature and which has a low degree of condensation and a softening point in the range 50 DEG C to 90 DEG C and/or which is a product of reaction of at least, urea, formaldehyde and a modifier selected from the group consisting of organic amides, aminotriazines, reactive organic hydroxyl compounds and reaction products of these compounds with formaldehyde, the solid resin making up 4 to 80 percent by weight of the moulding composition.   A moulding composition comprises curable amino-formaldehyde resin and filler, in which at least some of the curable aminoformaldehyde resin is incorporated into the composition as a solid resin having a degree of condensation which is in the range 25 to 45 percent, and a softening point in the range 50 DEG C to 90 DEG C.
Patent GB-2158291-A (GB)
Title: Pressure sensitive electrical switch device
Inventor: BATCHELOR MALCOLM
IPC: H01H13/785
Filed: 1985-04-26
Abstract: A membrane switch comprises an electrically insulating base 2 having at least one region comprising a plurality of spaced electrically conductive elements 3 alternately connected to opposed terminals and an electrically insulating layer 4 having electrically conductive particles distributed therethrough laid over and in contact with the elements 3 for bridging at least two adjacent elements 3 when pressure is applied between the layer 4 and conductive elements 3. The switch includes a waterproof layer 5 and an upper overlay 6 having symbols marked thereon. The switch is designed such that no significant "dead" or non- sensitive areas exist, thereby enabling the switch to be used especially by small children or mentally or physically handicapped persons. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2162155-A (GB)
Title: Platen printing machine
Inventor: DEN BERGH MARC F S M VAN
IPC: B41F1/26
Filed: 1985-05-31
Abstract: In a printer, for printing on continuous stationary, in which a platen 7 is alternately swung between an upper position in which it lies against a printing form and a lower position removed from said printing form, guide parts 13 and 14 are mounted on the feed and discharge side respectively of the platen by attachment to the platen for swinging therewith in operation. Each guide port has a pair of pin tractors 45 for advancing the web across the platen activated by stepping motors 53 controlled by an electronic control device. Guide port 13 also comprises a turning member 24 mounted at 45 DEG  to the direction of movement of the web across the platen and the web is fed from beneath the device over a support member 17 to the member 24 in a direction transverse to the direction of feed across the platen being turned through 90 DEG  so as to be fed to the platen in the desired direction. By the use of such means longitudinal tensions on the web as the platen is swung into its upper position are reduced avoiding bursting of the web. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2177684-A (GB)
Title: Tray for stacking packages
Inventor: CHANCE HARRY
IPC: B65D71/70
Filed: 1985-07-17
Abstract: A packaging tray A primarily for gable-top containers 7 has a rectangular base 1 with a flat upper surface 2 and an underside with projections 5 forming parallel channels 6 within which the tops of the containers 7 carried on the upper surface of an underlying similar tray B are received in complementary manner. Wall parts 8 extend upwardly from edges of the base 1 to retain the containers on the base and opposed wall parts 13, 14 extend downwardly from edges of the base 1 to overlie the ends of the channels 6 to retain the tops of the containers 7 from sliding through the channels. Two trays can be stacked when empty by the lower edges 16 of the walls 13, 14 of the upper tray standing on the upper edges 17 of the walls 8 of the lower tray. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2167774-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and methods for coating substrates with metal coatings
Inventor: PINKHASOV EDUARD
IPC: B32B18/00
Filed: 1985-03-05
Abstract: A substrate (10) as illustrated in Fig 1 is coated with protective metals at least in part evaporated from a metallic electrode (1) with which an arc is struck at low voltage and current to deposit metal from the electrode (1) on the substrate (10) in a vacuum chamber. The electrode (1) may be heated and the substrate (10) may be sandblasted and preheated. More specifically a method of coating a ceramic with a metal is disclosed comprising the steps of roughening a surface of a ceramic substrate by subjecting it to blasting with particles; preheating said substrate to a temperature of at least 200 DEG C but less than the melting point of a metal to be applied thereto; juxtaposing said surface of said substrate with an electrode composed of said metal; evacuating the space in which said electrode is juxtaposed with said substrate to at most 10<-6>torr (133x 10<-6>Pa) and maintaining the pressure in said space substantially no higher than 10<-5> torr (133 x 10<-5>Pa); and striking an arc with said electrode by intermittently attacking same with another electrode while applying a voltage in the range of from 30 to 60 volts across said electrodes and passing a current in the range of from 50 to 90 amperes through said electrodes to evaporate the electrode composed of said metal and deposit said metal on said surface. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2180825-A (GB)
Title: Condiment dispenser
Inventor: ADGEY-EDGAR ALAN GEORGE
IPC: A47J42/04
Filed: 1985-09-18
Abstract: A condiment dispenser such as a combined salt dispenser and peppermill 13 comprises a lower body portion 15 for storing peppercorns for a peppermill (not shown) and an upper body portion 17 defining a reservoir for salt. Holes 19 through which the salt can be dispensed are defined between the top body portion and a lip 21 on a lid 23. This construction is especially suitable when the condiment dispenser is made of plastics material such as acrylic, because it avoids the need to use pins in, for example, an injection mould, the use of which has previously been found to lead to the appearance of disfiguring "weld" lines as injected plastics material flows round the pins in the mould. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2171969-A (GB)
Title: A rail for running a vehicle along a golf course
Inventor: FUKUDA TOMIICHI
IPC: A63B55/60
Filed: 1985-10-24
Abstract: The rail has a gap 2 which, when in use, is exposed and flush with the ground surface 10, side walls extending from the gap and a hollow region 3 with a substantially hexagonal cross-section composed of a truncated inverted V-shaped slopes 5,6 forming upper shoulder and bottom inner surfaces respectively. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2185292-A (GB)
Title: Dispensing pump for viscous liquids
Inventor: MOAKES DAVID PHILIP
IPC: B05B11/00
Filed: 1986-01-09
Abstract: A dispensing pump for a highly viscous liquid, i.e. sauce, which can befitted into a flange of a bag is disclosed. The bag would be similar to the types used in wines or beers bag-in-box containers. The pump is attached to the bag by shank A and comprises a bellows B, a diaphragm inlet check valve D and a spring biased outlet check valve E. It is operated by pressing on the outlet end of the bellows at H and refills by the elastic recovery of the bellows. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2171713-A (GB)
Title: Radiation-polymerizable composition
Inventor: WALLS JOHN E
IPC: G03F7/038
Filed: 1986-02-27
Abstract: A radiation polymerizable composition for use in a photographic element, such as that for producing a lithographic printing plate, comprises a polymeric binder, a photoinitiator, a diazonium salt, a polyfunctional acrylic monomer having from 3 to 6 unsaturated groups and a monofunctional acrylic monomer having 1 unsaturated group.
Patent GB-2172734-A (GB)
Title: Advertising and/or promotion device
Inventor: KAMMLER ULRICH
IPC: G09F1/10
Filed: 1986-02-27
Abstract: A device for use in advertising or promotion comprises a vertical wall 2 of transparent material, such as clear plastic sheet, and an arched part cylindrical sheet 1 secured behind this wall. The arched sheet is formed by bending a flat sheet wider than the vertical wall to fit between tabs 3 on vertical edges of the wall. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2187530-A (GB)
Title: Suspension units
Inventor: BUSTARD JOHN SHAW
IPC: F16F1/54
Filed: 1986-03-05
Abstract: A suspension unit includes a hollow housing 10 and a polygonal- section body 12 in the housing defining spaces 14 in which resilient cords are disposed. A torque arm is fixed to one end of the body. To prevent axial movement, and to limit rotary movement, of the body, a loop 18 is fixed to the end of the body and a rod 20 extends through said loop and is fixed to the housing. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2174105-A (GB)
Title: Cleaning subsea surfaces
Inventor: GREEN TONY JAMES SIDNEY
IPC: B08B3/02
Filed: 1986-03-11
Abstract: A method for cleaning a subsea structure in which a jet of sea-water is directed from an electrode (11) on to an adjacent subsea structure (10) while applying an electric voltage between the electrode and the structure, the jet pressure and the electric current being such as to remove material from the surface of the structure. If desired, abrasive material may be injected into the jet. The jet may be scanned over the structure. The nozzle 11 may be insulated except at the face from which the water emerges and may have an insulating skirt 14. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2179329-A (GB)
Title: Partitioning structure
Inventor: FERRARI HUBERT
IPC: B65D5/48
Filed: 1986-04-29
Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus comprising first and second planar elements, e.g. of cardboard, which may be assembled together to form a structure, e.g. a cross brace of a bottle crate. Each of these elements has a slit which extends to an edge of the respective element and into which the other element may be introduced. The slits of the two elements have linear portions which are aligned in a predetermined direction when the elements are assembled. The slit of the first element is formed to provide a flap which extends transversely with respect to the predetermined direction and which is pivotable about a folding line which extends obliquely with respect to the predetermined direction. The second element has an aperture in which the flap is engaged with the elements are assembled. Assembly of the elements in a mutually orthogonal position permits the flap to be freely pivoted about the folding line without engaging an edge of the aperture, while subsequent movement of the elements from the orthogonal position to a further position in which they lie against one another prevents the flap from pivoting freely about the folding line without engaging an edge of the aperture.
Patent GB-2179441-A (GB)
Title: Cooking oven
Inventor: ERRMANN HANS
IPC: F24C7/06
Filed: 1986-08-01
Abstract: An oven has an oven liner (1) which can be closed by a door as a baking and roasting compartment, and which is provided with heating means at the bottom and top. The oven liner (1) consists at least partially of a glass or glass-ceramic member composed of a plurality of component parts. Radiant or halogen heating elements, which are part of a try-like or trough-like insulating support, serve as heating means for the oven liner (1). The insulating support is fitted with its radiation side on the oven liner (1) from the outside. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2198238-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for measuring a property of material
Inventor: INGRAM ROBERT
IPC: G01N27/18
Filed: 1986-11-24
Abstract: The moisture content of soil is measured by inserting a probe in the soil, the probe having an electric heater element 20, which establishes a temperature gradient extending into the soil from the heater. The power of the supply to the heater is controlled by feedback to maintain a temperature difference of around 3 DEG C between two temperature sensors, e.g. platinum resistance thermometers PRT-1, PRT-2, bonded to the inside of the stainless steel probe body 10 and separated by polystyrene insulation 24. The heater 20 is carried by a steel insert 16 overlying the thermometer PRT-1. The current fed to the heater is converted to a corresponding power signal representing soil moisture content by a conditioning stage including a linearising network. The output is continuous and is independent of the temperature of the soil. The method is applicable to measuring thermal conductivity or other related properties of soil or other materials. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-865152-A (GB)
IPC: C04B7/43
Abstract: 865,152. Shaft furnaces; charging and discharging. May 10, 1958, No. 15056/58. Class 51 (2). A short shaft furnace 1 for burning lime or dolomite has an annular exhaust gas header 3 divided by radial partitions 4 into compartments 3a, 3b having outlets 6a and 7b, respectively, into flues 6 and 7 leading to a main flue 8 connected to an exhaust fan. Material charged through an opening 9 falls over a frusto-conical distributer 10 formed with peripheral openings 10b having lower projections 10c. A modified distributer, Figs. 6 and 7 (not shown), has a second row of openings staggered in relation to the peripheral ones. The bottom of the furnace comprises an annular plate 40 and a central core 25 formed of superposed plates 26, the lowermost plate 27 resting on a column 29. A hollow shaft 32 surrounding the latter is rotated by bevel gear 42 and supports a plate 38 carrying ploughs which sweep the treated material off the plate 40. Operation of a suction fan (not shown) in the flue 8 draws air into the material above the plate 40 partially between vertical teeth 20b in a metal crown 20a attached to the lower shell 20. Some of this air passes into cone 25 between lower plates 26 and out between higher plates 26, as shown in Fig. 9.
Patent GB-2197022-A (GB)
Title: Hinges
Inventor: MAIDMENT ROBERT AINSLIE MORISO
IPC: E05F1/14
Filed: 1987-09-07
Abstract: There is described a hinged structure comprising two supports and one or more hinges hinging the supports together so that they are parallel and closely adjacent, the or each hinge comprising two hinge members, each hinge member being made of resilient strip material, each hinge member being S-shaped, passing partially round each support and together with the other hinge member forming a letter chi  or FIG. 8 configuration as seen in a direction along the supports, wherein a releasable catch is provided for holding the supports in a predetermined relative angular position, the catch comprising two cam members each associated with a respective suport and the two being resiliently urged into engagement and so shaped and arranged that rotation away from the said predetermined relative angular position of the supports urges the cam members apart against the resilient urging.
Patent GB-2195876-A (GB)
Title: Cigarette wrappers
Inventor: HAMPL JUNIOR VLADIMIR
IPC: A24D1/10
Filed: 1987-09-24
Abstract: Wrappers (10) for smoking articles (18) providing reduced ignition proclivity or self-extinguishing properties to the resultant smoking articles (18). The wrapper materials (10) contain band areas of low inherent BMI in the range from about 0 to about 4 cm<-><1>. Preferred embodiments include wrappers (10) wherein bands (14) of paper material with reduced filler content are provided to produce a BMI in the range of from about 0 to about 2 cm<-><1> in the band areas and the resulting smoking articles (18) are self-extinguishing in the banded zones (24). The width of the bands (14) may be in the range of from about 2 to about 20 millimeters and, for self-extinguishing properties, are preferably at least about 6 millimeters.
Patent GB-2198449-A (GB)
Title: Activation of phase change medium
Inventor: MATTHEWS ANDREW JAMES
IPC: F28D20/00
Filed: 1987-06-04
Abstract: An actuator for inducing phase change to a lower temperature phase in a salt hydrate that exhibits a transformation from a high temperature phase to a low temperature phase at a transition temperature. The actuator comprises a coiled spring that is flexed to induce nucleation, a piezoelectric vibration or a thermoelectrically induced cold spot.
Patent GB-2215335-A (GB)
Title: Microgel immobilised enzymes
Inventor: WILLIAMS ANDREW
IPC: C12N11/08
Filed: 1988-03-04
Abstract: An immobilized enzyme conjugate soluble or dispersible in an organic solvent-containing medium (e.g. methanol or tetrahydrofuran) comprises a polymer microgel which has been prepared from at least one monomer, the or one of the monomers having been selected so as to introduce hydrophobic groups into the microgel, the microgel being conjugated via covalent linkages with the enzyme. The polymer may be alkoxyalkyl acrylate or methacrylate, to which the enzyme (e.g. alpha -chymotrypsin, esterase or sulphatase) may be bound by carbodimide linkages.
Patent GB-2216799-A (GB)
Title: Orthopaedic device
Inventor: STALLARD JOHN
IPC: A61F5/01
Filed: 1988-03-22
Abstract: An orthopaedic device for use in the treatment of contractures comprises a frame which has means for articulation at one or more joints and makes use of at least one gas strut for producing forces to apply torque at the joints to be treated, the magnitude of which can be varied by varying the pressure of the gas contained within the gas strut or struts.
Patent GB-2213433-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for making a fabric adornment
Inventor: ROWLEY JACK
IPC: B44C5/00
Filed: 1988-12-07
Abstract: A method and apparatus for making fabric ornaments, e.g. roses, is disclosed. One free end of ribbon 26 is held on rotatable platen 12 by spikes 13, 14. Winding arm 20 is displaceable arcuately and tangentially relative to platen 12 and is extensible to overlie ribbon 26 held on spikes 13, 14. Securing means are lowerable onto spikes to hold the ornament in shape (e.g. by heat). Ribbon 26 is wound round extended winding arm 20 and members 12 and 20 are rotated through 80 DEG . Arm 20 is then retracted and displaced arcuately to its original position. Then it is extended and the looping, rotation and extension sequence repeated. After a predetermined number of loops have been formed arm 20 is displaced tangentially to platen 12 so as to form a series of larger loops. When sufficient loops have been formed the securing means is operated to hold the ornament in shape. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2218219-A (GB)
Title: A reflective mask
Inventor: WILLIAMS STEWART WYNN
IPC: G03F1/00
Filed: 1989-04-06
Abstract: A reflective mask for defining an image to be marked on an article using a laser beam (34) wherein the mask assembly (20, 40, 50) comprises reflective portions (32) defining the image. The mask (20) may comprise a plurality of individually selectable reflective elements (32) for defining an image, e.g. wheel members (26-29) each carrying several digits around its periphery, or wheel members each having a plurality of reflective elements around its periphery (Fig 4. not shown) or individually pivotable members arranged in arrays and each carrying a reflective element (Figs 5-8. not shown). <IMAGE>