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Patent GB-2148442-A (GB)
Title: Fasteners for clamps
Inventor: MACKINNON HUGH GORDON
IPC: F16B2/06
Filed: 1984-10-25
Abstract: A fastener 6 suitable for use in a clamp 1, comprises an elongate member 9 provided with a head 11 having a channel or groove 13 in one side extending generally transversely with respect to the longitudinal axis of the elongate member 9. One or more such fasteners 6 is used in a clamp 1 in which the channel or groove 13 is dimensioned for receiving a free edge portion of a strap 5, on a first member 2, and the elongate member 9 has an engagement portion 8; the clamp 1 comprising a clamping member 7 having an abutment portion 16 for abutment with a second member 3 and having at least one aperture 19 spaced from said abutment portion 16 for receiving therethrough at least part of said engagement portion 8 of a respective fastener 6. The clamp 1 includes engaging means 22 for securing together the clamping member 7 and the fastener 6 at said engagement portion 8 so as to clamp the second member 3 between the clamping member 7 and said first member 2. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2150002-A (GB)
Title: A power pack for an irrigator
Inventor: BRIGGS LESLEY ROBERT
IPC: F02B3/06
Filed: 1984-11-05
Abstract: The power pack has a frame generally indicated by arrow 1 which, in use, is placed on the ground with ground engaging means 2 adapted to engage with the ground to hold the frame 1 stationary. The rear of the power pack 1 has connections for the three-point linkage of a tractor (not shown). The frame 1 supports a prime mover 5 which may, for example, be a diesel or petrol driven internal combustion engine. The prime mover 5 is adapted to drive a rotary fluid/hydraulic pump 6 which is connected to a fluid reservoir 7 via hoses (not shown). The frame 1 additionally supports either or both, as is shown in the example, a winch drum 8 and a hose reel 9. The winch drum 8 is driven by a hydraulic motor, driven from prime mover 5, and a ratchet means to reel in a cable 10 connected thereto. The cable 10 is connected at its other end to any known irrigator which is to be pulled toward the power pack to irrigate the area therebetween. The hose reel is driven by hydraulic motor 15 actuated by prime mover 5. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2157485-A (GB)
Title: A method of mass spectrometer analysis
Inventor: FRANKS JOSEPH
IPC: H01J49/14
Filed: 1984-12-12
Abstract: In order to increase the sensitivity of mass spectrometer analysis, the generation of ions to be analysed is increased by ionising those particles sputtered from the specimen in an uncharged state. This can be done by bombarding the sputtered material in the gaseous state with electrons, which may be excited secondary electrons, produced for example by bombardment of the specimen with neutral particles, or chemical ionisation methods can be used. The sensitivity can also be increased by making a solution of the material to be analysed and increasing the diffusion rate of the material to the surface of the solution, for example by ultrasonic agitation or electric fields.
Patent GB-2154168-A (GB)
Title: Rolling stand and method of flat rolling metal strip in a rolling stand
Inventor: BOLTE WILHELM
IPC: B21B1/36
Filed: 1985-02-12
Abstract: A multi-roller rolling stand has guide rollers 3, 7 which are arranged upstream and downstream of the 3 rolling stand 5 in the strip run direction, and are skewable about pivot axes 9, 10 arranged at right angles to said roller axes and in the centre of each roller in order to influence the strip run. Wandering of the strip is detected by sensors 14, 15 and is counteracted by pronounced skewing of guide rollers 3, 7 via adjusting devices 11, 12 under the control of regulating device 13. The central adjustment of the strip run is made before the rolling and is maintained upon commencement of the rolling and during the rolling by continual correction. The central adjustment of the strip run is made before the rolling and is maintained upon commencement of the rolling and during the rolling by continual correction. The advantage of such a rolling stand lies in the fact that the strip is rolled to close tolerances within the region of the rolling calibre with a maximum cross-sectional reduction per pass. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2154631-A (GB)
Title: Non-foaming water-loss reducer
Inventor: BLOCK JACOB
IPC: C09K8/035
Filed: 1985-02-20
Abstract: A non-foaming water-loss controller composition is made by adding an anti-foamer to solid particles of a polyvinyl alcohol reaction product. The anti-foamer is present in an amount from about 0.5 to 20% by weight of the polyvinyl alcohol reaction product. The product can be used in making drilling fluids which will not foam. By using this composition, the well drilling operator does not have to measure and add any anti-foamer at the well site.
Patent GB-2171671-A (GB)
Title: Containers
Inventor: STORER KEVIN
IPC: B65D21/02
Filed: 1985-02-22
Abstract: A container (10) has a base (11), an upstanding wall (12) attached to or integral with the base (11) and cooperating guide means (18, 23) at or adjacent the free edge of the wall (12) and/or at or adjacent the base (11), said cooperating guide means (18, 23) being adapted to cooperate with a corresponding co-operating guide means (18, 23) of a further container (10) whereby said container (10) and said further container (10) may be stacked one on top of the other. The wall (12) has further cooperating guide means (31) adapted to cooperate with further corresponding cooperating means (37) of a further container (10), whereby said container (10) and said further container (10) may be engaged with one another side-by-side. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2171351-A (GB)
Title: Fastener dispensing and affixing device
Inventor: WALL ROBERT EDWARD
IPC: B25C5/13
Filed: 1985-02-27
Abstract: A device for dispensing and affixing cable clips (104) to a surface has an impact head (10) movable in a cylinder (12). The impact head is movable against the force of a spring (16) by means of a piston (24) movable in a second cylinder (22) by fluid pressure generated in a hand-operated gear pump (26), to which piston (24) the impact head (10) is attached. The pump is operated to force fluid via a non-return valve (29) into the cylinder (22), thereby displacing the piston (24) and the impact head (10), allowing a clip (104) to move from a feed channel (80) into a dispensing channel (15). The impact head is held in its displaced position by the fluid pressure, due to a slide valve (48) situated in a passage (46). When the slide valve is opened, the fluid pressure is relieved and the spring (16) forces the impact head (10) to its initial position, thereby securing the clip (104) in the surface. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2160102-A (GB)
Title: Electric arthroscopy knife
Inventor: BUESS DR GERD
IPC: A61B18/14
Filed: 1985-04-04
Abstract: An electric arthroscopy knife for surgical operations upon and in joints, especially the knee, consists of an exposed electrically cutting metal surface (2) made of a burn-on alloy (1) for dental purposes, an electrically insulating ceramic material (3) for dental purposes burned on the burn-on alloy (1) and covering the surfaces of the non-cutting parts, and a long haft (5) rigidly and electroconductively connected (4) to the burn-on alloy (1), which haft (5) comprises, on an electrically insulating coating (6), an insulated handle and a plug contact. The knife can be in various shapes and has been shaped as a hook or forceps. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2175631-A (GB)
Title: Window
Inventor: DUNCOMBE PHILIP
IPC: E05D15/526
Filed: 1985-05-24
Abstract: In an espognolette mechanism for a turn-tilt window 1 a safety device 6 mounted on the sash 3 permits sliding movement of the mechanism 10 on rotation of the handle 5 to the tilt mode but prevents movement to the turn mode until it has been manually released. The device 6 comprises a spring urge slider (29 Figures 5, 6 not shown) engaging a stud (30) on the bar (12) of the mechanism. In the safety position a collar (38) of the stud is engaged by the bifurcated end of the slider; in the release position the end is moved to engage a narrower shank (37) portion. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2162014-A (GB)
Title: Navigation and flight guidance
Inventor: LERCHE HORST-DIETER
IPC: G01C21/00
Filed: 1985-07-10
Abstract: In a method of navigation and flight guidance in which perceived and stored terrain data are correlated, a sensor is used which is directed towards the ground and scans the flight path 3 perpendicularly to the direction of flight with a pivoting mechanism. The same sensor is used for end-phase guiding, for example homing and/or target surveying, by switching over the pivoting mechanism in a forward-looking direction (Fig. 3). The sensor may be an EHF sensor or a laser device. …<IMAGE>…
Patent GB-2181027-A (GB)
Title: Digital to vestigial sideband conversion
Inventor: POWELL WILLIAM HUGH
IPC: H04N7/24
Filed: 1985-09-24
Abstract: Television and other video information is usually handled in vestigial side band (VSB) analogue form, but a digital form is better for transmission and storage. Hence the VSB signal is placed in a delta sigma (pulse density modulated) form in a coder. At the receiving end the digital signal is applied with a local clock to a decision circuit 1 whose output is applied to a gate 8, also clock controlled. The parameters are such that the gate output is a carrier at the clock frequency amplitude modulated by the TV or video. This is applied to a band-pass filter whose output is the original VSB signal. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2168975-A (GB)
Title: Amides and compositions thereof having anti-inflammatory and analgesic activity
Inventor: JANUSZ JOHN MICHAEL
IPC: A61K31/165
Filed: 1985-12-11
Abstract: Substituted aromatic ???-araalkanamide compounds, and pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof, of the formula:   <IMAGE> wherein n, is 0 or 1, n2 is 0 or 1, n3 is 0 or 1, n4 is an integer between 0 and 12, n2+n3=1, R1 is selected from the group consisting of H, OH, and a short-chain ester, R2 is selected from the group consisting of H, OH, OCH3, and OCH2CH3, R3 is H or CH3, and R4 is O or S.
Patent GB-2168294-A (GB)
Title: Life-saving equipment
Inventor: SIMPSON STANLEY GORDON REX
IPC: B63C9/08
Filed: 1986-01-25
Abstract: A lifebelt for use in life-saving at sea in which the lifebelt 10 is substantially of horseshoe configuration and has a bendable element 11 on its inner periphery to allow the area within the horseshoe to be varied to accommodate persons of different bulk, i.e. a child or an adult. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2188613-A (GB)
Title: Suspension display packaging
Inventor: EDWARDS WILLIAM JOHN
IPC: A47F5/00
Filed: 1986-04-04
Abstract: A suspendable display package comprises a pack and a suspension hanger, the pack including a planar suspension portion (1) formed with an aperture (3) to engage a first part of a suspension hanger to support the weight of the pack, and with a cutout portion (4) in the edge adapted to engage the first part of the suspension hanger (2) to prevent relative rotation between the pack and the suspension hanger. A second part (10) of the suspension hanger is cooperable with a rail or the like to suspend the package therefrom. The first and second parts of the suspension hanger (2) may be hinged together, and may also include means to retain the second part of the hanger in its retracted position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2176703-A (GB)
Title: Tissue plasminogen activator
Inventor: JOHNSTON MICHAEL DENIS
IPC: A61K38/00
Filed: 1986-05-27
Abstract: An aqueous parenteral solution of tissue-plasminogen activator, in which the pH is from 2 to 5 can be used to treat thrombotic disorders.
Patent GB-2182919-A (GB)
Title: Bridged layered clays
Inventor: BOUSQUET JACQUES
IPC: C09K3/00
Filed: 1986-10-28
Abstract: There are provided clays of laminated structure (e.g smectites) bridged by metallic oxides selected from oxides of aluminum and zirconium and containing e.g. from 10 to 50% and preferably from 20 to 40% of an oxide of a metal of the group of the lanthanides, preferably of cerium. The presence of cerium improves the thermal resistance during a dry calcination or even under humid air. The clays can be used as catalysts during the conversion of hydrocarbons.
Patent GB-2197695-A (GB)
Title: Load bearing roller assemblies
Inventor: DOUGLAS JACK ERNEST
IPC: F16C29/06
Filed: 1986-11-21
Abstract: A load bearing roller assembly 1 for supporting a member for sliding movement on a track or rail includes a carrier 2 for attachment to the underside of the member, for example a door or window, and a housing 3 mounted on the carrier 2 and having a plurality of rollers 33 for engagement with the track or rail. The carrier 2 includes a support body 3 secured to the member and a support arm 5 pivotally connected at one end to the body 4 and pivotally mounting the housing 3 at the other end. The arm 5 is pivotal relative to the body 4 by means of an adjustment screw 20 for adjusting the height of the assembly 1 and the housing 3 is pivotal relative to the arm 5 in each adjusted position to align the rollers 33 with the track or rail. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2183536-A (GB)
Title: Moulding plastics foam footwear sole
Inventor: FUNCK DR ING HERBERT
IPC: A43B13/12
Filed: 1986-11-27
Abstract: A footwear sole (3) incorporates a flexible prefabricated cushion piece (6) adhesively attached to the ball portion of the sole. The cushion piece has apertures (7) which attach it to pegs (5) on an upper mould portion (1). After introduction of foam into the mould, opening of the latter detaches the cushion piece (6) from the mould portion (1), leaving the cushion piece (6) embedded in the sole. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2185268-A (GB)
Title: A ladder-mending machine
Inventor: ROSSO PIETRO
IPC: D05B7/00
Filed: 1987-01-08
Abstract: The sinker (20) is rotatably mounted on the flat support member (23) and has two projections (21, 22) disposed on the sides of the vertical planes containing the paths of the needles (8, 9) of the machine, opposite to the direction in which the dial or wheel moves. The bent spring (27) tends to so rotate the sinker (20) as to thrust the projections (21, 22) towards such vertical planes, thus ensuring complete closure of the latches of the needles (8, 9) during the return movement thereof (Figs. 8 and 10 not shown). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2186198-A (GB)
Title: Strategic game of the chess family
Inventor: BRIGGS DON S
IPC: A63F3/00
Filed: 1987-01-23
Abstract: A game includes a board with a generally rectangular perimeter having a plurality of contiguously and uniformly distributed, hexagonal playing spaces thereon. Each of the hexagonal spaces includes at least two essentially parallel sides which are oriented such that they are parallel to the sides of the game board which are not occupied by the game's players. The periphery of the game board may be substantially square. Each of the hexagonal playing spaces is identified by one of three color or design indicia. The hexagonal playing spaces having common indicia are positioned in chains or rows which are directionally extended in essentially a linear fashion, parallel to the sides of the game board not occupied by the opposingly positioned players. Two sets of game pieces which are identified by color as belonging to one of two sub-sets are movable about the game board. Each set of game pieces include fifteen game pieces. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2223890-A (GB)
Title: Power socket assembly for ironing boards and other work tops
Inventor: SHELLARD RAY
IPC: H01R13/73
Filed: 1988-09-22
Abstract: A work top, typically a work bench or the pressed metal or other top or board (10) of a folding portable ironing table is provided with an electrical socket assembly (16) including a support (24) hinged to the under side of the top or board, typically to a reinforcing rib (14) thereof and carrying an electrical socket (32) provided with a flexible lead (35). Thus the socket can be swung between a stowed position at which it lies generally parallel to the under surface of the top and a use position at which it depends downwardly therefrom so that an iron or other appliance can be plugged into the socket. The support is retained at the stowed position and, preferably, at the use position by resilient tabs (28, 30) snap-engaging therewith. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2224523-A (GB)
Title: Open flooring
Inventor: TRUBSHAWE B C
IPC: E04C2/42
Filed: 1988-10-21
Abstract: Open flooring comprises an array of load-bearing bars (10), transverse bars (11) at an upper face of the flooring and a perforated sheet (12) at the underside of the flooring. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2225637-A (GB)
Title: Portable apparatus for foetal monitors
Inventor: BRIEN PROFESSOR P M S O'BRIEN
IPC: A61B8/02
Filed: 1988-11-03
Abstract: A hand-held device for monitoring the cardiac rate of a foetus by ultrasonic Doppler measurement of the blood flow is adapted to measure the baseline cardiac rate and variability, the absence of decelerations and the increase following foetal "kicks". Means (9) are provided to allow the operator, e.g. the mother, to enter the occurrence of "kicks" as she feels them during the measurement. The device stores present limits for the various measurements and provides an output understandable to the motor based on the measurements. The output may be a textual or audible instruction such as when to repeat the test or whether to seek medical advice. The device includes a transducer 3, amplifier 5, microprocessor 7, LED display 13, and a speaker 17 and/or headphones and a printer. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2222715-A (GB)
Title: Control system for use with video cassette recorders
Inventor: GILBERT JOHN
IPC: G11B31/00
Filed: 1987-11-02
Abstract: An in-house video system comprising a computer (19) having graphics capabilities, a control system (23), a plurality of video cassette recorders (13) and a plurality of display media (17). The computer (19) and video cassette recorders (13) each produce a video signal for display upon the display media (17). The appropriate video signal is transmitted to the display media via the common transmitter line (15) and receiver lines (16). The video signals are displayed in a sequential manner determined by the program of the computer (19) and the operation of the control system (23). The control system (23) comprises a detecting means (27), a timing means (29), an actuating means (31) and a set of relays (25). The detecting means (27) detects the presence or absence of a video signal on the transmission line (15) via line (35) and generates an active signal when no video signal is detected. The timing means times out a predetermined time period upon generation of an active signal and the actuating means (31) actuates the stop and rewind controls of the particular VCR (13) generating the video signal so as to stop and rewind the video cassette tape from which the previous video signal was generated. Thus, the control system ensures that after the playing of a video cassette tape and the display of the video signals derived therefrom from a VCR the tape is wound back to start upon completion of the display from the tape. The computer (19) functions to display computer graphics during the intervening periods between the displaying of the video cassette tapes and also, controls selection of the particular video or VCR which is to play its video cassette tape.
Patent GB-2240599-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and fitting for coupling plastics pipes
Inventor: ASHDOWN CHARLES JOHN
IPC: B25B27/10
Filed: 1989-09-29
Abstract: An apparatus for coupling two pipes 1 using a fitting 2 includes an elongate frame 10, a first clamping device 15 mounted on the frame for releasable engagement with a pipe 1 to clamp the pipe to the frame 10 and a second clamping device 14 mounted on the frame 10 for releasable engagement with an intermediate portion (5) of the fitting 2 to clamp the fitting to the frame. The clamping device 15 is mounted for movement along the frame 10, and an actuator device (24) is engageable with the first clamping device 15, to drive it towards the second clamping device 14. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2232288-A (GB)
Title: Novelty illumination device
Inventor: FERRAIOLI STEPHEN
IPC: G09F21/04
Filed: 1990-04-06
Abstract: The novelty illumination device is in the shape of an animal or other figure, and incorporates illuminating means which is actuable by an electric or electromagnetic source on actuation of said source to give a warning that said source has been actuated. In one embodiment the device is in the shape of a toy dog 10 and the illuminating means corresponds to a feature of the dog's head, e.g. the eyes 14, which are electrically connected to an electrical circuit of a motor vehicle to illuminate when said electrical circuit is closed, e.g. the brake lights circuit. In another embodiment, said device is in the shape of a figure and the illuminating means corresponds to a feature of the figure or an object carried by the figure. More than one illuminating means may be provided each actuable by different electrical or electromagnetic sources. The electrical source may be an electrical circuit connected to the device to energise the illuminating means when the circuit is closed. The electromagnetic source may be a radio transmitter to actuate a receiver associated with the device. The device may be electrically connected to a telephone circuit so as to illuminate when the telephone receives a call or electromechanically linked to a doorbell and so as to illuminate by radio control when the doorbell is actuated. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2238574-A (GB)
Title: Scaffold fitting
Inventor: PARKER DUNCAN
IPC: E04G7/12
Filed: 1990-05-02
Abstract: The fitting comprises a body 10 defining a seat 11 for a scaffold tube, a cap 13 mounted for pivoting relative to body 10 about a first axis 16 between open and closed position and a retaining mechanism 14 for releasably retaining cap 13 in the closed position relative to body 10; the mechanism 14 includes an elongated shank 19, a setable abutment on shank 19 for exerting a closing force on shank 19 at a position remote from first axis 16 and a pivot pin 24 projecting from shank 19 transverse (e.g. perpendicular, Figure 3, or at an obtuse angle, Figure 5) through an opening in body 10 to form a cantilevered pivot connection between body 10 and shank 19, which connection permits relative pivoting of body 10 and shank 19 about a second axis 20. As shown in Figures 1, 3, pin 24 is integral with shank 19 and the abutment comprises a washer 21 and nut 22 on end portion of shank 19 formed with a screw thread 23. Figures 4-7 show alternative embodiment. Figure 4 has a separate pivot pin (124). In Figure 6 shank (319) is cranked. In Figure 7 body part (425) which receives second pivot pin (424) is offset with respect to portion of the body on which the cap is pivoted. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2241070-A (GB)
Title: Finder of camera having macrophotographing mode
Inventor: ABE TETSUYA
IPC: G03B13/14
Filed: 1991-02-14
Abstract: A finder for a camera having a photographing optical system (T, Fig. 2) and a finder optical system (F, Fig. 2) independent therefrom and having a macro-photographing mode, is provided with a variable power lens system L1 to L4 to vary the magnification thereof and a field magnification varying device (16, Figs 4 and 5) adapted to move the variable power lens L2 and L3 to decrease the magnification on transfer to the macro-photographing mode; thereby to alleviate the problems of parallax. As shown, L1 and L4 are fixed. A field frame plate L5 may bear a first macro frame m1f, a second macro frame m2f, and an object distance frame sf, <IMAGE>