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Patent GB-2458216-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus to simulate coal or wood burning domestic fire
Inventor: BAIRD PAUL CHRISTOPHER
IPC: F21S10/04
Filed: 2009-03-12
Abstract: A flame simulating assembly 10 includes a light source 28, a front screen 20, a rear screen 26, a flicker element 30, and a first 22 and second 24 simulated ember bed, located between front screen 20 and rear screen 26, and rearward of rear screen 26 respectively, wherein flicker element 30 is arranged to reflect light from source 28 trough ember beds 22, 24 such that light reflected through the second ember bed 24 is projected onto a back surface 25 of rear screen 26. Flicker element 30 may rotate to create a constantly changing reflection pattern on screens 20, 26 and be located to the rear of ember beds 22, 24, and below second ember bed 24 or vertically in line with first ember bed 22. Front 20 and rear 26 screens may be vertical. Assembly 10 may include an electric heat source, contained in the upper section (12, Figure 1) of assembly 10 with a controller (36, Figure 1) to control the heat source.
Patent GB-2460729-A (GB)
Title: Miniaturised non-radioactive electron emitter
Inventor: BAETHER WOLFGANG
IPC: G01N27/62
Filed: 2009-03-26
Abstract: A non-radioactive electron emitter of simple and compact design is disclosed which is cylindrical in shape and which has an internal chamber 6 which forms a vacuum chamber. A substrate 7 forms the floor of the arrangement and has, in the internal chamber 6, a plurality of field emitter tips 5 comprising carbon nano-tubes which are secured to the substrate 7. A layered structure forms the cover of the arrangement and has, reading from the outside towards the internal chamber 6, an electrode layer 13 which acts as a counter-electrode, and which is applied to a membrane 10 which is impermeable to gases and permeable to electrons. A substrate 11 has a cutout in the form of a window 12 in the region above the field emitter tips 5 and acts as a carrier substrate for the membrane 10 and the electrode layer 13. A circumferential wall 14 formed by an electrically insulating material completes the vacuum chamber. The field emitter tips 5 and the electrode layer 13 are connected to a source 15 of DC voltage, which means that the electrons emerging from the field emitter tips 5 are accelerated through the vacuum chamber, the window 12 and the membrane 10 and onto the electrode layer 13 and pass through the electrode layer 13 and enter an ionisation area 3 outside the electron emitter 1. Further possible structures are discussed wherein extraction grids (Fig. 9, 16) are added to the apparatus so that the electron emitter may be operated in a pulsed manner.
Patent GB-2468926-A (GB)
Title: Tubular connector
Inventor: PATTERSON ROWAN WARRICK
IPC: F16B2/14
Filed: 2009-03-27
Abstract: A connector 1 for clamping a component around a tubular member comprises a collar 2, a plurality of movable dogs 16 mounted in the collar and actuation means for driving the movement of the dogs. The collar 2 has an inner wall 4 and an outer wall 5, the inner wall 4 intended to surround the tubular member with a gap 56 between the inner wall 4 and an outer surface of the tubular member. The Inner wall 4 has a plurality of apertures 12 each aperture leading to a passage 14. The dogs 16 are slidably seated in the passages 14 for radial movement. The actuation means includes a movable block 22 and movement means 32 to 6 axially move the block 22 which has a radially outer surface 23 in sliding contact with surface 25 of the outer wall 5. Blocks 22 have radially inner surfaces 24 and dogs 16 have corresponding radially outer surface 26 that are in sliding contact with each other. At least one pair 24, 26 of these contacting sliding surfaces are oppositely inclined so relative axial movement of the block 22 causes the dog 16 to be driven in a radially inwardly across the gap 56 to grip a tubular member.
Patent GB-2457177-A (GB)
Title: Polyethylene and polypropylene blends for liquid packaging films
Inventor: BRECK ALAN KEITH
IPC: B32B27/32
Filed: 2007-09-05
Abstract: There is disclosed a flowable material packaging film comprising at least a resin blend of (a) from about 33 wt% to about 80 wt% of at least one ethylene-C4 to C10-  a  -olefin interpolymer having a melt index of from 0.4 to 1.5 g/10min (190{C, 2.15kg), a density of from 0.900 to 0.916 g/cc; and (b) from about 67 wt% to about 20 wt% of at least one heterogeneous interpolymer of propylene with ethylene or ethylene and butene comprising from about 71 mol% to about 86 mol% propylene and from about 29 mol% to about 14 mol% ethylene or ethylene and butene, the interpolymer having an overall weight average molecular weight (Mw) of at least about 400,000, a xylene soluble phase of not less than 30% (wt), with the xylene soluble phase having a Mw of at least about 275,000 and said heterogeneous interpolymer of polypropylene has a density of from 0.875 to 0.91 g/cc; and the film has a Hot Tack Initiation Temperature in the range of from about 100{C to about 140{C and a Hot Tack Strength of not more than about 5 N/inch in the temperature range of about 100{C to about 150oC, when fabricated at a thickness of about 50 microns and tested using a JB Instrument Hot Tack Tester set at a 0.5 second dwell, 0.2 second delay time, 40 psi seal bar pressure and 250 mm/second peel rate; and the film has a flex crack resistance such that it develops 5 or less pinholes per 300cm2in 10,000 cycles of Gelbo Flex testing as measured according to ASTM F392. The film exhibits flex crack resistance and thus is useful in the manufacture of pouches and bags made from such films. Processes for making such pouches and bags which may include aseptic conditions are also described.
Patent GB-2469342-A (GB)
Title: A system and method of image transmission using stereographic images
Inventor: GODAR ANTHONY WILLIAM
IPC: H04N13/00
Filed: 2009-04-09
Abstract: A method of image transmission comprises acquiring s10 a pair of stereoscopic images from a stereoscopic camera. The displacement of corresponding image features between the pair of stereoscopic images are evaluated s20 and features that fall outside a predetermined range are rendered unviewable s30. The rendering may be via pixilation, a low pass filter or by replacing with a different image. The processed image is transmitted to a remote viewer s40. The stereographic camera may be a pair of cameras arranged at angles with respect to each other, such that the longitudinal lens axis intersect at a finite distance which may be the distance to an object of interest. One of the cameras may be of broadcast quality whilst the other camera is not. Also disclosed is computer program for implementing the method of the invention.
Patent GB-2460762-A (GB)
Title: Composite insulating panel with solar collector
Inventor: CAROLAN JAMES
IPC: E04B7/20
Filed: 2009-06-10
Abstract: A composite insulating panel 1, particularly to provide a more efficient system for cladding a building, comprising a translucent upper sheet 2 and a lower sheet 4 between which is an insulating body 5, a solar collector 10 is located between the upper sheet and the insulating body. The solar collector may comprise a flexible material and may extend across the whole width of the panel or may be in the form of strips. The upper sheet may have raised portions into which the solar collector may extend. The solar collector may be adhesively bonded to the upper sheet. There may also be a barrier such as a film between the solar collector and the insulating body. There may be projections at the sides that underlap or overlap with adjacent panels.
Patent GB-2464221-A (GB)
Title: Dynamic converter control for efficient operation
Inventor: GREEN ALAN M
IPC: G06F1/26
Filed: 2008-05-21
Abstract: Power consumption is dynamically managed in a computer system having at least two parallel power converters (406) in order to improve efficiency. A maximum power capacity for each of the power converters is determined (408) and then power consumption of the computer system is monitored. If the power consumption of the computer system can be provided by less than all of the parallel power converters then one or more of the power converters is turned off (410), such that a reduced number of parallel power converters remains turned on. A reduced maximum power capacity of the reduced number of parallel power converters is determined and a power cap value is set for the computer system that is less than or equal to the reduced maximum power capacity. The computer system is throttled (412) at the power cap to prevent power consumption of the computer system from exceeding the power cap value.
Patent GB-705016-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to preparations for the hair and scalp
IPC: A61Q5/06
Filed: 1952-04-22
Abstract: A preparation for the hair and scalp consists of an inert carrier, thiopropionaldehyde and calamine dispersed in the carrier.  For its manufacture, petroleum jelly is heated to 180 DEG C, onion, which constitutes the source of the propionaldehyde, is added, the charred residue thereof is then removed, liquid paraffin is added, the mixture is boiled, and calamine is then stirred in.  Water may be added to the preparation prior to application to the hair.
Patent GB-374987-A (GB)
Title: An improved bituminous composition
IPC: C04B26/26
Filed: 1931-04-02
Abstract: A bituminous composition suitable for coating or surfacing purposes, or for incorporating in road-making material, comprises low-temperature tar with a fatty pitch suspended therein in a state of dispersion, and an addition of slaked lime or other alkaline compound adapted to accelerate hardening.  Low temperature tar is also found to be a solvent for fatty pitches which may be brought into a state of dispersion by treatment at 150-160 DEG  C. with aromatic amines, phenols, pyridine, mineral or vegetable oils, or turpentine, and such solutions serve as adhesives, or for rendering fabrics impermeable, or for surfacing purposes, their drying being accelerated by alkaline compounds. In an example, 2 parts of stearine pitch are heated with 5 parts of shale oil under a pressure not exceeding 60 lbs. per square inch, up to 150 DEG  C. for four hours, to give a solution, which is then diluted with 40 parts of shale oil and stirred into 250 parts of tar warmed to 50 DEG  C.  After cooling, the product may be used in the cold state, or mixed with stone splits and slaked lime.
Patent GB-1106263-A (GB)
Title: An article turning conveyor
IPC: B65G47/54
Filed: 1966-03-08
Abstract: 1,106,263. Conveyers on vehicles. AMERICAN SUGAR CO. 8 March, 1966 [5 Aug., 1965], No. 10212/66. Headings B8A and B8E. Air freight on belt conveyers 14, 18, 24 is transferred from one conveyer to another by a roller conveyer 22 which comprises an inner frame 84 removably received in an outer frame 80. The conveyer 22 includes two driven rollers 110, 112 provided with wheels 142, the latter being ball bearing supported and rotatable in a plane inclined by 60 degrees to the diametrical plane of the roller 110 or 112. Two other driven rollers 128 have peripheral rubberized coverings 140, and rollers 98, 136, 138 are idlers. A reversible hydraulic motor 124 operates the driven rollers via chain drive 132. Belt conveyer drive.-Each of conveyers 14, 24 is made up of sections and is driven by a coupling which may be disengaged from a stub axle extension (28) of the conveyer (18), Fig. 7 (not shown). Each drive connection between the sections of the conveyers 14, 24 includes slotted sockets (74, 76), Fig. 8 (not shown), which also permit the connection to be disengaged from the conveyer sections. Conveyer 18 is driven by a prime mover of a vehicle 20. Loading and unloading.-In Fig. 2 (not shown) and Fig. 4, conveyers 18, 24 are driven to move cargo toward and away from roller conveyer 22. By reversing the rotation of the motor 124 the rotation of the drive rollers of the roller conveyer is reversed and cargo is delivered to the conveyer 14 instead of conveyer 24. As cargo stacking proceeds along the length of the conveyer from the aft end of the fuselage 10, successive conveyer sections 52, 54, 56 and drive connections may be removed. To discharge cargo, the prime mover 20 is operated to convey cargo toward roller conveyer 22 on conveyers 14, 24 and away from conveyer 22 on the conveyer 18. Additionally the frame 84 of the roller conveyer is rotated through 90 degrees to align the axles of the roller conveyer with the length of the conveyers 14, 24. Modified roller conveyer, Figs. 9, 10, 11 (not shown).-The hydraulic motor drive is eliminated and pulleys (172) on the rollers (110), (112), (128) are driven by an endless belt (160) which is driven by a pulley (162) of the belt conveyer (18). The direction of drive of the conveyer rollers depends upon which way the inner frame (84) is placed in the outer frame (80). In place of the wheels 142 the rollers (110), (112) may have antifriction bands (148), (150), Fig. 9 (not shown).
Patent GB-401959-A (GB)
Title: Fabrics and articles of footwear made therefrom
IPC: A41H41/00
Filed: 1933-04-05
Abstract: 401,959. Boot &c. uppers. UNITED STATES RUBBER CO., 1790, Broadway, New York, U.S.A.-(Assignees of Adamson, P., 1790, Broadway, New York, U.S.A.). April 5, 1933, No. 10250. Convention date, Oct. 26, 1932. [Class 17 (ii).] A stretchable elastic fabric with a suede finish for making shoe uppers, or parts thereof such as inserts in the vamp portions, or straps, is woven with the warp or weft or both wholly or partly of elastic threads consisting of textile-covered rubber cores so as to be stretchable in either one or both directions. The fabric 1, Fig. 2, is coated on one or both sides with one or more coatings of flock 5 by means of a rotating or vibrating screen, rubber cement or latex adhesive 4 being used, the product being dried, vulcanized and loose fibres brushed off. The elastic threads may comprise round rubber cores 6, Fig. 3, made by direct extrusion of latex and covered whilst under tension with right and left windings of textile threads, or braided over. These covering threads and the inelastic threads of the fabric may comprise cotton, silk, or wool, and the flock may comprise cotton, wool, rayon, silk, or mohair. U.S.A. Specifications 1,545,257 and 1,822,847 are referred to. The remaining parts of the shoe may be ordinary suede material, or leather or ordinary fabric.
Patent GB-1323791-A (GB)
Title: Tread belt drives and links therefor
IPC: B62D55/12
Filed: 1971-04-20
Abstract: 1323791 Endless tracks for vehicles RUSTON-BUCYRUS Ltd 20 April 1971 [8 May 1970] 10294/71 Heading B7H The sprocket-engaging portions 8 of an endless track link la, 1b or 1c have fore and aft drive surfaces 9, 10 shaped to prevent incorrect meshing. Each link has a portion 4 which engages the sprocket wheel rim (18) (Fig. 7, not shown), two sprocket engaging portions 8 and fore and aft linking ears 15 and 16. Each drive surface 9, 10 has a lower convex portion (11) (Fig. 3, not shown) and an upper concave portion (12) complementary to the sprocket drive teeth 20a, 20b, 20c. In use a drive tooth 20a engages a drive surface 10 of a link la initially at point 22, and, as shown by teeth and links 20b, 1b, and 20c, 1c as the sprocket rotates the point of contact moves radially outward through 23 to 28, and the line of driving force 24, 29 moves outwardly of the link pin centres 25, 27 respectively. This arrangement prevents links moving radially outward of the sprocket and causing incorrect meshing. The sprocket consists of a hub and integral rim to each side face of which are connected three three-toothed segments, this arrangement facilitating replacement. If wear occurs at the hub rim a hoop may be placed about the rim to restore it to the original diameter.
Patent GB-415976-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in compression ignition oil engines
IPC: F02B23/06
Filed: 1934-04-05
Abstract: 415,976. Oil engines. GARDNER & SONS, Ltd., L., and GARDINER, J. H. S., Barton Hall Engine Works, Patricroft, Manchester. April 5, 1934, No. 10318. [Class 7 (iii).] A fuel nozzle d and a recess g in the piston a are arranged eccentrically with respect to the piston axis, and the combustion chamber has its centre of volume nearer the piston axis than the centroid of the plan area of the combustion chamber. The combustion chamber which is formed with a round ended milling cutter rotated about the axis j, is shaped as the closed end of a cylinder with a rounded corner.
Patent GB-869679-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to liquid-dispensing devices
IPC: B67D1/04
Filed: 1959-03-25
Abstract: 869,679. Siphon bottles. HOMEWOOD, G. S. H. March 25, 1960 [March 25, 1959], No. 10386/59. Class 14 (1). In a siphon bottle, the valve-receiving terminal member 7, Fig. 2, which is mounted at the head of the siphon tube 4 includes a neck portion of plastic material, e.g. nylon, resiliently sprung over the tube to provide a seal between the tube and member 7, the upper end of the tube being formed with a lip 5 which engages under an inwardly-projecting sealing- ring in the member 7. As shown a number of sealing-rings 9 are provided for selective engagement by the lip 5. In Fig. 3 the terminal member 12 is integral with the siphon head 13 and includes a series of sealing-rings 14, a polythene valve 16 co-operating with a seating 18 to control the dispensing of the liquid.
Patent GB-216643-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to apparatus for stopping or controlling the supply of power in factories
IPC: F16P3/00
Filed: 1923-04-17
Abstract: 216,643. Padmore, A. T., and Everton &. Wilson, Ltd. April 17, 1923. Operating belt forks.-In means for cutting off the supply of power in factories, operable from any room in which power is used, the stop means is controlled by an operating-shaft carrying fast and loose pulleys belt-driven from the main shaft, the striking-gear for the belt being operatively connected to all the rooms. The main driving-belt 3 is shifted from a fast pulley 5 to a loose pulley 6 by a fork member 11 having prongs 12, this member forming a nut for a screw-threaded shaft 8, which is carried in a frame 7 and driven from the main shaft 4 bv a belt 17 and fast and loose pulleys 16, 15. The member 1 is held against rotation by a forked arm 13 engaging a rail 10 on the frame 7. The belt 17 can be shifted on to the fast pulley 16 by a fork 18 pivoted either on an extension of, or bracket secured to, the frame 7 or, as shown, on an arm 20 carried by a separate bracket 21 embodying a bearing 22 for the shaft 8. Handles 28 distributed about the factory are connected by guided cables 24 to the fork 18, so that, by pulling any of them, the shaft 8 can be rotated to shift the main belt 3 and stop the drive. One of the prongs 12 is connected by a cord 29 to a spring-pressed slidable rod 30 carried by the fork 18, whereby the belt 17 is automatically returned to the loose pulley 15 by movement of the main fork. To restore, the drive, there are provided hand-wheels 38 connected by chain, belt, or other gearing 34 to a wheel 33 fast on the shaft 8.
Patent GB-1064703-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to scissors and the like and to their manufacture
IPC: B21K11/00
Filed: 1965-03-11
Abstract: 1,064,703. Making scissors. RICHARDS BROS. & SONS Ltd., and W. MULLER. Sept. 8, 1965 [March 11, 1965], No. 10435/65. Heading B3A. [Also in Division B4] A method of making a pair of scissors (see Division B4) consists in bending one end of each of two metal (e.g. carbon steel) rods to form a loop so that the extremity of that end is disposed adjacent to, but spaced from, that part of the rod which is to form that end of the shank remote from the pivot axis, placing the blank so formed between shaped parts of the die in a press which parts are so shaped that when pressure is imparted by them to the blank it is brought substantially to the required shape whereafter the resulting flash is removed and the two shaped rods pivoted together. The method may involve the use of die parts so shaped as to prevent, during the pressing operation, the metal of the extremity of the rod from merging with the metal of the rod which is to form the shank. Alternatively, should the shaping of the die parts be such that the metal of the extremity of the rod merges with the metal of that part of the rod which is to form the shank, the subsequent operation for removing the flash is arranged also to remove the merging metal so as to form a slit between the extremity and the shank. The pressing operation may be hot or cold.
Patent GB-1448053-A (GB)
Title: Electrical charging systems
IPC: H02J7/14
Filed: 1974-03-08
Abstract: 1448053 Multiple battery charging B D KINDER 17 Oct 1974 [8 March 1974] 10438/74 Heading H2H Apparatus for simultaneously charging a main battery and an auxiliary battery, the auxiliary battery being divided into at least two parts comprises means whereby the parts of the auxiliary battery are charged in parallel and discharged in series. A generator 1 of a motor vehicle produces a regulated D.C. output of 14 volts which is directly connected to a main battery 2 of the vehicle and, via an ignition switch 3 and a manually operable change over switch 9<SP>1</SP>, 9<SP>11</SP> to a battery 7 in the form of two 6 volt parts housed in a portable container and usable as an auxiliary battery. During charging the switch 9 is placed so that the two batteries 7 are in parallel to ensure sufficient voltage at the terminals thereof for charging the battery should the voltage drop along the system 11 tend to be considerable. The charging rate of the battery 7 can be varied by operation of switch 16 and a diode 13 prevents discharge of the battery 7 into the battery 2. After charge the battery 7 can be removed from the charging system at a plug and socket device 10 and a load connected thereto, during discharge the batteries 7 being connected in series by changeover of the switch contacts 9<SP>1</SP>, 9<SP>11</SP>. In other embodiments the switch 9 may be an electromagnetic relay and the switch 16 and elements 14, 15, 17 housed in the container with the battery. If desired the elements 14-17 may be replaced by transistors.
Patent GB-996480-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the production of gaseous oxides
Inventor: VESSEY CLIFFORD ALFRED
IPC: C01B17/54
Filed: 1962-03-20
Abstract: Sulphur dioxide is produced by combustion of sulphur or sulphur-containing compounds with air to yield a burner gas, and recovery of sulphur dioxide by condensation, in a process in which some of the sulphur dioxide in the burner gas is separated from the remainder and returned mixed with air to the burner, the air in the mixture forming part or all of the air for combustion.  In Fig. 1 the gases leaving burner 1 pass to condenser 3, and the uncondensed gas passes countercurrent to a stream of chlorosulphonic acid in absorption, column 4. The resulting solution is stripped with dry air in column 7.  There may be a difference in temperature or in pressure between columns 4 and 7. In Fig. 3 the gases leaving burner 30 pass to absorption column 33 and the resulting solution reaches stripping column 37 via <PICT:0996480/C1/1> <PICT:0996480/C1/2> <PICT:0996480/C1/3> pressure-reducing valve 36.  The mixture of air and sulphur dioxide from the column is recompressed at 38 en route to the condenser 39.  In Fig. 4 gases leaving burner 51 pass to absorption column 53 and the resulting solution is flash-vaporized into tank 55.  The sulphur dioxide leaving 55 is recompressed at 57 before condensation at 58.  The residual solution from tank 55 is stripped in column 60.  Specification 796,755 is referred to.