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Patent GB-2152124-A (GB)
Title: An openable hatch for a vehicle
Inventor: OHLSSON DICK OLLE
IPC: B60J5/10
Filed: 1984-12-18
Abstract: An openable hatch (1) in a vehicle, preferably the rear hatch of a car comprises a glass pane (3) that is glued along its side edge portions (11) to a support frame (4). The pane (3) is held relative to the frame (4) during curing of the glue (12) by clips 17. The frame (4) lies on the inside of the pane (3) and wholly within the area of the pane. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2154055-A (GB)
Title: Getter mounting arrangements
Inventor: YOUNG JAMES ROGER
IPC: H01K1/54
Filed: 1985-01-24
Abstract: A getter device for use with incandescent and high intensity discharge lamps comprising nickel tubing sufficiently porous to allow gases to pass therethrough has getter material situated therein. The nickel tubing can be used in place of support leads in high intensity discharge lamps or in place of lead-in wires in incandescent lamps. Alternatively the porous nickel tubing containing the getter material can be coiled around the support rods of the high intensity arc tube or the lead-in wires of an incandescent lamp adjacent the lamp filament. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2158071-A (GB)
Title: 3-(imidazolyl or triazolyl)-2-hydroxy-propyl phosphonic acid derivatives
Inventor: SUGAVANAM BALASUBRAMANYAN
IPC: A01N57/24
Filed: 1985-02-22
Abstract: Compounds which are fungicidal and which also have plant growth regulating activity are of formula:   <IMAGE> and steroisomers thereof, wherein R<1> and R<2> are each hydrogen, a cation, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or aralkyl or together form a ring, R<3> is alkyl (when R4 is not H), cycloalkyl, aryl or aralkyl either optionally substituted on the aryl moiety with halogen, nitro, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkoxy, haloalkoxy, phenyl, phenoxy, or halophenyl; R<4> is hydrogen, alkyl, or aryl optionally substituted with halogen; W is N or CH; X is oxygen or sulphur; and ester and ether derivatives of the alcohol; and their acid addition salts and metal complexes.
Patent GB-2157351-A (GB)
Title: A door for a T-shaped opening
Inventor: LUNDSTROM LARS-BIRGER
IPC: E06B9/06
Filed: 1985-03-27
Abstract: A door (1) for a T-shaped opening in a wall comprises two door leaves (2, 3) of a flexible material and a number of horizontal cross bars (7-9) guided at their ends by vertical guide rails (20, 21) mounted on the wall. The door leaf (2) is suspended from the top of the opening and has means (12, 17) for hoisting the cross bars (7-9) so that the door leaves (2, 3) fold up. The cross bar (7) is longer than the cross bars (8, 9). The sections (21') of the guide rails (21) guiding the ends of the cross bars (8, 9) are connected with the cross bar (7). Guiding means is provided to ensure that cross bars (8, 9) re- enter the guide rails 21 when the door is being closed. Locking means is also described. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2167791-A (GB)
Title: Fail-safe well safety valve and method
Inventor: PRINGLE RONALD EARL
IPC: E21B34/10
Filed: 1985-11-29
Abstract: A well safety valve has a piston and cylinder assembly 30 which is connected to and actuated by a hydraulic control line extending to the well surface for moving the valve to an open position, the hydrostatic head in the control line being balanced by a fluid column 13 exposed to the opposite side of the assembly 30 acting to close the valve. The fluid column 13 has a greater density than the hydraulic fluid in the control line for basing the valve to the closed position. The volume of fluid in the fluid column 13 is greater than the volume of fluid in the control line whereby exposure of the fluid column to gas will not substantially change its density. The housing includes a container 40 in communication between the other side of the assembly 30 and the fluid column 13 and contains a grease 50 for protecting the assembly. The grease 50 has a density less than the density of the fluid column 13 and is of a volume greater than the volume displaced in the assembly upon actuation of the piston and cylinder. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2169997-A (GB)
Title: Refrigerated containers
Inventor: BURN PAUL GEORGE
IPC: F25D15/00
Filed: 1986-01-21
Abstract: A refrigerated container 10 has a mobile refrigeration unit 11 which is stowed internally during transportation and is removed and coupled externally to the container in use. The refrigeration unit 11 comprises the compressor and condensor components of the refrigeration system whereas the generator and blowers are mounted in the container. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2185749-A (GB)
Title: Opaque silicone rubber compositions
Inventor: BROWN PETER
IPC: C03C17/30
Filed: 1986-01-27
Abstract: A silicone rubber composition comprising an opacifier such as carbon black, titanium dioxide or calcium carbonate is particularly useful as an opacifying coating for translucent materials (e.g. glass).
Patent GB-2173995-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle window wiper arrangement
Inventor: NEVE VICTOR STEPHEN
IPC: B60S1/34
Filed: 1986-02-19
Abstract: A vehicle window wiper arrangement comprises a surround adapted to receive a vehicle window (16), said surround incorporating a guide track along which runs at least one drive member, a wiper blade (12, 14) attached to the drive member and a mechanism for reciprocating the drive member to and fro along the track. In one embodiment, a channel-shaped strip 28 of magnetisable material having an energising coil surrounding a central part thereof is arranged within the surround, and a moulded component 34 provided with a permanent magnet 34 is arranged to be reciprocated to and fro adjacent strip 28 within the surround, when the coil is energised, thereby driving the wiper blade 12, 14. In another embodiment, component 34 carrying the wiper blade is reciprocated to and fro within the surround by a DC motor M which drives a friction wheel R, the supply of electrical current to the motor being via strips S and contacts C. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2187759-A (GB)
Title: Catalyst for hydrogen hydrogenation of carbon-carbon double bond, nitro and aldehyde groups in aliphatic and aromatic compounds
Inventor: MISCHENKO ALEXANDR PETROVICH
IPC: B01J35/06
Filed: 1986-03-10
Abstract: A catalyst for hydrogenation of carbon-carbon double bonds, nitro groups and aldehyde groups in aliphatic and aromatic compounds comprises a membrane made from an alloy consisting of 80 to 95% by mass of palladium and 5 to 20% by mass of ruthenium or rhodium and consists of a non-porous layer and a porous layer positioned on one or both sides of the non-porous layer, having a well developed porous surface without through pores. The catalyst can be prepared by a process comprising application of zinc onto one or both sides of the surface of a membrane made from the above mentioned alloy, the layer-thickness of zinc to the membrane being equal 1:10-100, keeping the membrane with zinc applied there onto at a temperature of 20 to 250%, followed by a chemical recovery of zinc from the membrane.
Patent GB-2175112-A (GB)
Title: Sequence control method and apparatus
Inventor: TAKAKI MASAOKI
IPC: G06F9/40
Filed: 1986-07-04
Abstract: A sequence-control program for a system is divided into a plurality of divisional programs corresponding to respective processing stages (71, 74). In each of these programs necessary information is read out from the system under control and a decision is made (73, 75) regarding the execution or non- execution of the next divisional program. If such execution is required an interrupt signal is generated: if not, then a self-hold instruction (72, 76) ensures that the current divisional program is executed as a loop. Loops allow short sequence cycle times. Divisional programs without jump destination address information allow easy program modification. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2179701-A (GB)
Title: Carburetor provided with an anti-percolation device
Inventor: KAMOHARA YASUHIKO
IPC: F02M19/06
Filed: 1986-07-22
Abstract: In a carburetor having a metering needle 4 which controls the flow of fuel through a metering section 9, a perforated bubble breaking member 10 is disposed in a portion of fuel passage 12 adjacent the fuel metering section 9, the bubble breaking member in use breaking-up bubbles generated in the fuel within the fuel metering section into smaller bubbles, thereby preventing occurrence of percolation in the carburetor. The perforated bubble breaking member 10 may be formed of a metal gauze shaped into a cylindrical form or of a coiled spring having a small pitch. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2194584-A (GB)
Title: Door securing mechanism
Inventor: HENDERSON WILLIAMS IAIN MACKIE
IPC: E05C9/06
Filed: 1986-08-30
Abstract: A door securing mechanism has at least one and preferably two, three or more bolts 8,9,10 each formed with teeth which co-operate with corresponding teeth on a door spindle 6 in a rack and pinion arrangement so that rotation of the spindle simultaneously drives the or each of the bolts into its closed position. The mechanism is of particular use for the door of a shelter for electronic equipment which door has a number of seals 20 requiring considerable force to compress them when the door is closed; cooperating cam faces at the ends of the bolts, eg 10B Fig. 5, and on keepers 17A transmit the compression force. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2196766-A (GB)
Title: Computer communication system
Inventor: PITAYANUKUL SANGYAI
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 1986-10-13
Abstract: A computer system for use in a restaurant environment is described. The system comprises a central computer 10 provided with a communication module to enable communication between the central computer and a plurality of remote handheld computers 12. The handheld computers are used by waiters to enter customers orders which are then transmitted by radio or infra-red radiation to the communication module 11. Data concerning menus and available dishes may be transmitted from the central computer 10 to the remote computers. Preferably, in order to prevent collisions in the communication channel, the remote computers are interrogated in turn by the central computer. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2182303-A (GB)
Title: A method and an apparatus for filling of small containers
Inventor: MEHTA MAHARAJ KRISHEN
IPC: A61J3/07
Filed: 1986-10-29
Abstract: Gelatine capsules with bodies 28 and caps 29 are filled by use of a rotating outer drum 1 and an inner drum 13 which can be moved axially into and out of the drum 1 and displaced vertically while within the drum 1. The capsules are first placed in inner drum 13 through openings (20) in slidable covers 19 and in the position shown the bodies 28 are drawn by vacuum into rows of cavities (5) in the outer drum 1. Apertured slide 7 controlled by cam follower (9) closes each filled row of cavities when the drums are indexed to bring another row of capsules and cavities into the bottom position. After removal of the inner drum 13, the outer drum 1 is filled with powder, which is retained by removable end plates (10), and rotated to cause the powder to enter the capsule bodies in the lower part of the drum, the filled capsules being closed by slides 7 prior to stopping drum rotation. Finally the inner drum is brought back and the filled capsule bodies 28 are pushed into the caps 29 in the drum 13 by pins (25) extendible through passages at the lowermost position of cavities 5. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2184555-A (GB)
Title: Assembling a module library for the generation of a PCB test program
Inventor: BEESE HANS-JOACHIM
IPC: G01R31/3183
Filed: 1986-12-11
Abstract: To assemble a module library, for the generation of an in-circuit test program for printed circuit boards, the behaviour of the components on the board is registered at nodes predetermined by the circuit description during a functional test sequence and/or during a simulation program sequence and this behaviour is input into the module library as component information; from this information and the circuit description an in-circuit test program can then be put together.
Patent GB-2187476-A (GB)
Title: Process for the production of a fluid impermeable sintered body
Inventor: DONCH JURGEN
IPC: C22C32/00
Filed: 1987-02-18
Abstract: Essentially metallic sintered bodies impermeable to fluids are produced by adding to a sinterable mixture consisting predominantly of metal powder, a powdered substance preferably a glass, which is inert with respect to the metallic components, melts at the sintering temperature and has a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than the metal. The mixture is shaped in the usual manner and sintered. The metal powder is preferably iron powder, bronze or aluminium. The powdered substance added may also be a mineral or rock powder.
Patent GB-2201744-A (GB)
Title: Tube locking device
Inventor: HANSON PETER DEREK
IPC: F16B7/14
Filed: 1987-02-25
Abstract: A tube locking device to be used with two circular section tubes 5 & 6 which are assembled one within the other and can be positioned so as to provide a variable total combined length. It consists of an assembly comprising a bearing support 2 secured within the end of the inner tube 5, and from which projects a fixed shaft or pin 1 offset from the axis of the tube 5, and upon which an eccentric locking cam 3 is free to rotate. By rotating the tubes relative to each other in either direction the device enables them to be locked together in a particular position, and by a contra rotation to be subsequently released for re-positioning. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2198208-A (GB)
Title: Access gland for pipe wall
Inventor: KITSON CLIVE
IPC: F16L45/00
Filed: 1987-06-15
Abstract: A gland is of the type permitting a TV camera and cable to be fed into a gas main by way of a hole drilled in the wall of the main. The gland 1 has a base 2 adapted for mounting the gland 1 on a gate valve 3 which itself is mounted on the main 35 over a hole 37 drilled in the main 35 and a tube 5 communicating with the base 2 through which tube 5, the camera 40 and cable is inserted. The tube 5 extends from a plate 4 which is rotatably mounted on the base 2. Rotation of the plate 4 causes the tube 5 to vary its position between a first position where the axis of the tube 5 is substantially at right angles to the axis of the main 35 and a second position where the axis of the tube 5 is at an acute angle to the axis of the main 35. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2210961-A (GB)
Title: Cooling devices
Inventor: GATLEY RICHARD
IPC: F25D3/00
Filed: 1987-10-15
Abstract: A cooling device comprises a hollow body (6) moulded of plastics material by a rotational moulding operation, a refrigeration device comprising a generally U-shaped tube extending into the hollow body (6), through which tube in the use of the device a refrigeration fluid is fed, to lower the temperature of a eutectic liquid within the hollow body. The hollow body is caused to flex by an increase in the internal pressure thereof, such as by the application of additional eutectic liquid to the hollow body, to cause ice built up on the hollow body to break. Alternatively the hollow body may be enclosed by a flexible sleeve, which may in part at least be deflected away from the walls of the hollow body by the application of air under pressure, to cause ice which has built up on the flexible sleeve to break. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2203420-A (GB)
Title: Extraction of metal values
Inventor: DALTON RAYMOND FREDERICK
IPC: C22B3/36
Filed: 1988-02-12
Abstract: Metal values (especially uranium values) are extracted from aqueous solutions of metal oxyions in the absence of halogen ion using an imidazole of defined formula. Especially preferred extractants are 1-alkyl imidazoles and benzimidazoles having from 7 to 25 carbon atoms in the alkyl group.
Patent GB-2205560-A (GB)
Title: Treatment of gas streams containing hydrogen sulphide
Inventor: WATSON RICHARD WILLIAM
IPC: C01B17/04
Filed: 1988-05-06
Abstract: A first hydrogen sulphide containing waste gas stream from an oil refinery is combusted in a first combustion chamber 16 using pure oxygen to support combustion. The combustion products are cooled in heat exchanger 20, and a part of the combustion products are recycled to the chamber 16 to moderate the temperature therein. The remainder of the combustion products are mixed with a second hydrogen sulphide containing waste gas stream of different composition from the first stream. A proportion of the hydrogen sulphide content of the mixed stream is combusted in combustion chamber 28 again using pure oxygen to support the combustion. The resulting sulphur dioxide reacts with residual hydrogen sulphide to form sulphur vapour.
Patent GB-2220639-A (GB)
Title: Cable dispensing device
Inventor: TAYLOR GRAHAM
IPC: B65H49/32
Filed: 1988-07-06
Abstract: A cable dispensing device comprises a base and a cable-drum cradle. The base comprises a non-slip cruciform arrangement 4. The cradle incorporates an openable upper bar 12 for cable-drums, and cable guiding eyelets 9, one for each drum. The cradle rotates about a vertical axis on the base so that cable may be drawn from the drums and through the eyelets without tangling by an operator remote from the dispenser. As the operator moves around the dispenser the cradle orients itself towards him as cable is drawn off a drum. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2211582-A (GB)
Title: Articulated transmission joint having a large telescopic travel in particular for an automobile
Inventor: ORAIN MICHEL
IPC: F16D3/205
Filed: 1988-10-25
Abstract: The arms 2 of a tripod element bear against rolling tracks 9 of a bowl element 10 through roller segments 6 which are in swivelling contact with the arms 2 and in rolling contact with the rolling tracks 9. Each roller segment carries a boss 102 movable in a recess 203, 204 of a branch 212 of a slidable clip 113. In normal service, the roller segment rolls in the associated track 9. In the event of an extreme extension or compression of the joint, the clip is driven by the boss 102 until it abuts by a shoulder 127 against a step on the bowl element or against the inner end of the bowl element 10. The clip then axially blocks the boss 102 and, as the case may be, constrains the roller segments 6 to pivot for clearing the travel of the arm 2 toward the end T2 or T3 of its travel. 
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Patent GB-2221916-A (GB)
Title: Aqueous dispersions of alkoxylated alcohols and printing inks containing the dispersions
Inventor: BAKER TIMOTHY J
IPC: C09K23/00
Filed: 1988-10-26
Abstract: Water-based dispersions usable as printing ink additives are prepared using high molecular weight, linear, alkoxylated, primary alcohols having an average chain length in the hydrocarbon portion of the alcohol of from about 22 to about 150 carbon atoms. The preparation comprises slowly adding the alkoxylated alcohol, which has been heated to a temperature above its melting point, to water which has also been heated, and thereafter cooling the dispersion while stirring.
Patent GB-2227010-A (GB)
Title: A storage container, e.g. for bread
Inventor: COLEMAN JOHN ROGER CHARLES
IPC: A47F1/06
Filed: 1989-01-16
Abstract: A storage container in the form of a bread bin comprises a housing 9 having an open upper end and a lid 3 mountable upon the open upper end of the housing. The housing contains a platform 4 which is spring-biased towards the upper end of the housing so that when a sliced loaf of broad is positioned on the platform the uppermost slice in the loaf is presented at the open upper end of the housing. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2218557-A (GB)
Title: A railway signalling system
Inventor: BARNARD ROBERT EDWARD BLAKE
IPC: B61L27/00
Filed: 1989-05-10
Abstract: A signalling system in which 'authority' is given to a train by radio from a central computer base station and location information is derived by the train from wayside transponders and transmitted back to the base station. The authority consists of specifying transponders in the authorised track section. Thus in a digital data coding system, rather than specify every transponder in the authorised section - an indeterminate message format - the sum of the transponder codes is transmitted, together with the identity of the first and last. An on-board processor sums the transponder codes as they arise and at the end of the section a discrepancy between the accumulated sum and the received sum indicates a faulty transponder and the identity of the particular one. Economy of message transmission and constant message format is thus achieved. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2221434-A (GB)
Title: Drive axle assembly
Inventor: HARRISON TERENCE SYDNEY
IPC: B60G1/00
Filed: 1989-07-31
Abstract: A drive axle assembly comprising a shaft 16 supported by a bearing 18 substantially centrally in a triangular plate 20 which is mounted by its upper apex to an upper chassis member 10 and its lower apices to a lower chassis member 12. The end of the shaft 16 mounts a coupling flange 46 which is connected by a coupling 48 to a further coupling flange 44. The coupling 48 comprises a rigid circular casing which encloses four bonded rubber ball joints 50, 90 DEG  spaced apart. The flange 46 is secured to one opposed pair of the joints 50 and the flange 44 is secured to the other opposed pair of the joints 50. The flange 44 is formed on a wheel hub shaft 26 which mounts a wheel 14. The hub shaft 26 is rotatably supported within a mounting 28 which is adjustably mounted on the upper and lower chassis members 10, 12 allowing the wheel 14 to be movable, providing for alteration to the camber and toe in or toe out thereof. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2222262-A (GB)
Title: A method and means for measuring the depth of cracks
Inventor: DEUTSCH VOLKER
IPC: G01N27/20
Filed: 1989-08-22
Abstract: In the measurement of the depth of cracks (R), using a potential probe (S) connected to a measuring instrument (M) and having two current terminals and additional voltage-measuring terminals (potential probe method), separate calibration devices needed for the checks and collective measurements necessary when using known potential probes and eliminated and the check measurements are made in conjuction with the actual depth-measuring process. 
<??>The potential probe (S) has at least two pairs of terminals (1+2, 3+4) having known but different spacings and which serve as adjustment measuring portions, being connected to an adjustment circuit (JM, UM) in a measuring-instrument microcomputer (M). An additional pair of terminals (2, 3) having a known spacing serve as a crack-depth measuring portion and are connected to a crack-depth measuring circuit (TM) in the microcomputer. The probe is attached to the workpiece so that the adjustment portions lie on opposite sides of the crack, whereas the crack-depth measuring portion contains the crack. 
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Patent GB-2239658-A (GB)
Title: Solid fuel product from rubber
Inventor: FOSTER BRIAN
IPC: C10B53/07
Filed: 1990-01-05
Abstract: A solid fuel product is produced from waste rubber by exposing the waste rubber to a degradative treatment to produce a solid material containing a substantial proportion of carbon and a small proportion of sulphur, and subsequently steaming the solid material in the presence of potassium nitrate. The product is a slow-burning fuel which can burn for several hours at a glowing heat.
Patent GB-2241480-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for controlling attitude of a spacecraft orbiting Earth or other celestial body
Inventor: SCOTT PETER RICHARD
IPC: B64G1/34
Filed: 1990-02-28
Abstract: Apparatus for controlling attitude of a spacecraft (1) orbiting Earth or other Celestial body, includes primary magnet means (2) mountable on the spacecraft (1) for motion relative thereto under the influence of the magnetic field (A) of the Earth or other Celestial body, energy dissipating means (3, 4) locatable on the spacecraft (1) and operable to bring motion of the spacecraft (1) substantially into equality with that of the primary magnet means (2), thereby to damp down rotation of the spacecraft (1), and means (5) for biasing the primary magnet means (2) towards a desired orientation with respect to the spacecraft (1) thereby to control attitude of the spacecraft (1). <IMAGE>