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Patent GB-2270304-A (GB)
Title: Corrugated board feeding and folding apparatus.
Inventor: MIZUNO KENJI
IPC: B31B50/04
Filed: 1993-09-01
Abstract: A corrugated board 10, to be folded by bars 36, is fed by endless belts 20, the board being securely held in place on the belts by suction generated within tubular members 16, the suction being communicated via apertures 16a in the tubular members, slots 18a in belt guides 18, and holes 20a in the belts themselves. Each belt guide 18 is of low friction material and extends the full length of the respective tubular member 16. The return run of the belt 20 is within the tubular member 16. Pressure rolls (figures 5 and 6) may act on the upper surface of the board. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2271082-A (GB)
Title: Printing presses.
Inventor: BOEHME ANDREAS
IPC: B41F31/36
Filed: 1993-09-20
Abstract: For adjusting the positions of the axis of a roll in printing apparatus, for example in offset printing presses, mechanisms are provided at each end of the roll which permit a straight line radial displacement and clamping of the roll in an attained working position. A double-acting drive (24) coaxial to a roll support (2, 5) acts on a mushroom-shaped control piston (17) and a radially-movable piston (16). The piston (16) serves to shift the roll holder (5) along a roll guide against the force of a spring (10). To clamp the holder in position, an arrangement is provided of a biased support bell (21) and clamps (19) which are wedged between the support bell (21) and control piston (17). A double-acting pneumatic ram (24) is moved in opposite directions either to shift the control piston (17) or the support bell (21), in order to displace the axis of roll (1) in one direction or the other. The housing (12) is rotatable relatively to its support for adjusting the direction in which the roll holder is moved. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2274936-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle passenger restraint system
Inventor: MAHON GEOFFREY L
IPC: B60R21/01
Filed: 1994-01-21
Abstract: An electronic accelerometer is used to generate an acceleration signal for a passenger restraint system in a motor vehicle. The electrical signal is processed to emulate an electromechanical sensor to detect crashes. Such processings involves applying the signal @(t) and a reference voltage VREF1 to a summing amplifier 32 which generates a signal corresponding to the difference and applying the difference signal to an integrator 34. The output of the integrator is fed to a comparator 38 in which it is compared with a reference VREF2. This arrangement emulates a ball-in-tube electro mechanical sensor. The electrical signal may also be differentiated to obtain a jerk signal also used to detect abnormal accelerations, Fig. 3, not shown. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2275021-A (GB)
Title: Rotary printing press for the two-sided printing of sheets
Inventor: WIRZ ARNO
IPC: B41F13/10
Filed: 1994-02-09
Abstract: In order to make it possible to print both sides of a sheet in one pass with optionally more than three colours, with the space required for the printing press being small, a rotary printing press consists of two horizontally tandem-arranged satellite printing units (2, 3) with a feeder (12) and a delivery (13) being disposed between the printing units (2, 3). The invention is suitable for use in multicolour rotary printing presses that can be employed as perfectors. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2275636-A (GB)
Title: Camshaft and method for casting the camshaft
Inventor: MACDONALD ALEXANDER KENNETH
IPC: B22D15/00
Filed: 1992-09-11
Abstract: A method of producing a chilled iron camshaft from a chromium containing cast iron is described. The cast iron material contains between 0.5 wt % to 1.2 wt % of chromium, the camshaft having a white iron structure adjacent chill inserts in a casting mould and a grey iron structure in substantially all other regions remote from the chills, the method comprising the steps of assembling a sand casting mould having a camshaft shaped cavity and also having chill inserts adjacent the cavity regions where white iron is desired, preparing a molten metal charge of cast iron having a carbon equivalent lying in the range from 3.5 up to 4.0 wt % and adding sufficient nucleant prior to pouring to fill the mould cavity, to ensure that under cooling of residual liquid remaining after solidification of the white iron structure adjacent the chills remains above the iron-cementite eutectic temperature prior to solidification into grey iron. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2274721-A (GB)
Title: Wheel examining system
Inventor: FUKUDA YUTAKA
IPC: G01M17/06
Filed: 1991-07-04
Abstract: A wheel examining system (1) for examining a three-axle vehicle includes three different examining sections (3f, 3m, 3r) one of which (3m) may be shifted in a transverse direction to determine a discrepancy in alignment of three axles. Each examining section includes a left-hand clamp means for clamping a left-hand wheel from both sides, a right-hand clamp means for clamping a right-hand wheel from both sides and an interconnecting means. The interconnecting means includes a pantagraph (5) which operatively couples the left-hand and right-hand wheel clamp means to locate those associated with the front and rearmost axles in a symmetrical position about a predetermined center line of said system. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2277965-A (GB)
Title: Steam turbine
Inventor: TIMMINS CYRIL
IPC: F01K23/10
Filed: 1994-05-11
Abstract: A steam turbine system comprises a steam turbine 6 driving electric generator 10, a heat recovering steam generator 8, and a gas turbine 2 driving electric generator 4. The steam generator 8 converts feed water into steam using heat exchanger coils 22, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 32 disposed in duct 20 carrying gas turbine exhaust gases. Coil 22 is a boiler feed water heater, 24a low pressure evaporator, 26 an economiser, 28a high pressure evaporator, 30 a reheater, and 32 a superheater. The steam turbine has a high pressure cylinder 34, an intermediate pressure cylinder 36, and a low pressure cylinder 38. Superheater 32 supplies high pressure steam to the cylinder 34, reheater 30 supplied intermediate pressure steam to the cylinder 36 which supplies an output of low pressure steam to the cylinder 38. A fuel gas burner 56 is mounted in the duct between the superheater 32 and the reheater 30 to provide heat augmenting the heat in the exhaust gases. If desired another fuel gas burner 58 may be provided between the reheater 30 and the evaporator 28, and/or another fuel gas burner 60 may be provided between the gas turbine 2 and the superheater 32. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2289662-A (GB)
Title: Opening cans
Inventor: DUNWOODY PAUL ROBERT
IPC: B65D51/22
Filed: 1994-05-20
Abstract: An end wall 1, for a can 17, comprising an upright peripheral wall 3, a panel portion 6 extending in a radial direction from the upright wall 3 and a substantially circular line of weakness 5 extending adjacent the upright wall in the panel portion, has a recess 7 formed in the panel portion providing space for an opening device 16 in an inoperative transit position from which the opening device may be rotated to progressively break the line of weakness. The recess may have a ramp surface 10 at one end or be chordally defined (29, Figure 6), or be defined in the floor of a channel (49, Figure 15). The opening device 16 is preferably a peg formed on the underside of an annular portion or disc portion 11 fitting over the can end upright wall and rotatable thereon. The can end may be double seamed to the can side wall or be integrally formed therewith (Figures 17, 18), in which case the opening device may screw thread onto the can. The opening device may be used to reclose the can. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2292118-A (GB)
Title: Ring eraser.
Inventor: GREGORY ROBERT JAMES
IPC: B43L19/00
Filed: 1994-08-13
Abstract: An ornamental ring is made of, or incorporates, an eraser. The finger aperture may be a continuous band of material or may be an incomplete arc. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2281517-A (GB)
Title: Sampling bottle for oil and gas/water mixtures with mixing by pumped circulation
Inventor: NYMAN TERJE
IPC: G01N33/28
Filed: 1994-09-01
Abstract: A sampling bottle for a mixture of oil and gas/water, comprising a cylindrical container body (1) having lockable (9, 8) end pieces (2, 3), and a piston (7), includes a mixer comprising a pump-driven (P) nozzle (10), the spray outlet (10') thereof being directed into the interior of the sampling bottle. One of the end pieces (2) is formed with a return channel (5) to the pump (P) to enable the content of the sampling bottle to be recirculated several times through nozzle (10). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2295057-A (GB)
Title: Redundant power distribution in an information processing system
Inventor: CUTTS STANLEY JOHN
IPC: H02J9/06
Filed: 1994-11-14
Abstract: An information processing system comprises a plurality of information processing devices; and a fault-tolerant power distribution system comprising a plurality N+1, wherein N is greater than 1, removable power supplies for providing power to the system, N power supplies being sufficient to provide power to said plurality of devices; and a plurality M removable power distribution units for connecting said power supplies to said devices, the connection of said power supplies with said power distribution units being configured such that on removal of either of said units, the remaining unit is still connected to N of said power supplies to thereby maintain power to said system. As shown, three power supply and cooling fan modules 30, 32, 34 are connected to two cabled distribution units 100, 102 via six connectors 200 - 210 on the modules and four sockets 220- 226 on the units. An arrangement providing power distribution by circuit cards is also described (Fig. 3 not shown). Any two of the three supply modules can supply the total power required. Removal of either of the distribution units still leaves two supply modules feeding the processing devices. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2283690-A (GB)
Title: Wet type flue gas desulfuriser
Inventor: ISHIZAKA HIROSHI
IPC: B01D53/34
Filed: 1994-04-07
Abstract: An absorption tower body including inlet and outlet ducts is provided on an upper portion of and unitarily with a circulation tank, and has a self-supporting structure supported on the circulation tank alone. At least the foremost spray means in a spray unit in the inlet duct has spray pipes provided with spray nozzles for spraying an absorption liquid in the direction in which an exhaust gas flows, and at least the rearmost spray means has spray pipes provided with spray nozzles for spraying an absorption liquid in the direction opposite to the direction in which the exhaust gas flows. Since this apparatus has a unitary structure in which the upper portion of the circulation tank constitutes a part of an absorption tower duct, an absorption tower structure can self-support. Moreover, the absorption tower structure has simple construction, so that it has a high strength. Namely, an additional structure for supporting the absorption tower duct need not be provided, which constitutes the big characteristics of this apparatus. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2296815-A (GB)
Title: Photoresponsive materials
Inventor: FRIEND RICHARD
IPC: H01L51/30
Filed: 1994-12-09
Abstract: A photoresponsive material comprises molecular or polymeric semiconductors in which photogeneration of separated charge carriers proceeds substantially via an intermediate stage of a triplet exciton, where the generation of the triplet exciton may be facilitated by the presence of elements of high atomic number (eg PLATINUM) in which the generation of separated charges from the intermediate triplet excited states is facilitated by the presence of at least two semiconductive components, one of which is of high electron affinity and able to accept electrons (eg FULLERENE), and the other of which is of low ionisation potential and therefore able to accept positive charge carriers, the difference between the electron affinity of the former and the ionisation potential of the latter being sufficiently low so as to allow the ionisation of a triplet exciton which is present on either of the two aforementioned semiconductive components or on a third component. The provision of contact electrodes allows charge to be collected by an external electrical circuit and allows light to be incident on the active photoresponsive material. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2297729-A (GB)
Title: Gardening handcart
Inventor: DAWSON PAUL A
IPC: B62B3/02
Filed: 1995-01-05
Abstract: A gardening handcart has pair of front wheels 10 and a rear wheel 20. The cart frame 14 consists of a pair of A-frames, connected to one another by cross-members. Each A-frame consists of a base member 28 and an upstand 30. A vertical bracing member 34 interconnects the base member 28 with the upstand 30 and cross-members connect the two A-frames together. The front wheels 10, are connected to the free ends of the base members 28. An arm 38 is articulated to the end of each upstand 30 so as to be rotatable with respect to it about an axis parallel to the axles of the front wheels 10. The free end of each arm 38 terminates in a hook 40. The hooks may be used to engage and lift various items of equipment, such as turf rolls, refuse containers etc. When the cart is tilted about the front wheels. The cart can be used for laying turf by wheeling the cart backwards and allowing the turf roll to unwind.
Patent GB-2285378-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for drawing tangent circle
Inventor: MORITO MASAO
IPC: G06T11/20
Filed: 1994-03-15
Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus which can stably generate a circle at a desired position tangent to a figure element such as a free curve. Two figure elements are first indicated to a figure element displayed on a screen and identifiers of these figure elements and the coordinates of the indicated positions are obtained (S1). Next, one coordinate point co on a line having the indicated positions an its end points is set for the center c of an initial circle (S2). An improved value is calculated under the condition that a circle having the center c and a radius r is tangent to the two indicated figure elements (S3). The difference between the improved value and the set value is detected, and the improved value so calculated is used as the set value when calculation of the improved value is repeated (S4). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2286030-A (GB)
Title: Connector assembly
Inventor: MATKOVICH VLADO I
IPC: A61M5/14
Filed: 1993-10-01
Abstract: A connector assembly includes first and second fillings (100, 200) and first and second membrane assemblies (170, 270). Each filling (100, 200) defines a respective aperture (141, 231). Each membrane assembly has a layer (172a, 272a) sealing the aperture and a removable contamination containment layer (182a, 282a) overlying a respective sealing layer. The first and second fillings (100, 200) may be resiliently coupled in biased opposition to urge positive contact between the first and second removable contamination containment layers (182a, 282a) and/or the first and second sealing layers (172a, 272a). In one application, a connector assembly according to the invention may define a fluid communication path for handling a fluid without allowing the level of contaminants in the fluid to increase. A connector assembly according to the invention may be used to handle a biological fluid while maintaining the fluid free of viable contaminating microorganisms or preserving its sterility, for example. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2288481-A (GB)
Title: Restaurant service
Inventor: GREEN ADAM LLYWELLYN
IPC: G07C11/00
Filed: 1995-04-13
Abstract: A method and apparatus for signalling the requirement for waiter service in a restaurant comprises signalling means for the restaurant tables. Signals are transmitted to an indicia generating unit 2, for example by radio transmission means. The indicia generating unit 2 cooperates with a reception sequence detecting unit for distinguishing between the signals on the basis of the order of receipt. The indicia generating unit 2 identifies at least the table which is at the top of the table priority sequence. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2299932-A (GB)
Title: Portable seat and computer stand
Inventor: MURPHY DAVID
IPC: A47C9/08
Filed: 1995-04-19
Abstract: A portable seat and support for a computer consists of a foldable seat 6 together with a stand which holds the computer. The stand and seat can be separated, the stand collapsed, the seat and struts 1a, 2 folded up and wheels on strut 2h moved into position so that the seat can be moved around. In use, the seat is unfolded and the computer support is secured to the seat and erected. In the folded position, the seat has hooks which can accommodate a briefcase or a computer.
Patent GB-2289679-A (GB)
Title: Compounds for targeting
Inventor: EPENETOS AGAMEMNON ANTONIOU
IPC: A61K47/48
Filed: 1994-01-17
Abstract: A compound comprising a target cell-specific portion and a directly or indirectly cytotoxic portion, characterised in that the target cell-specific portion recognises the target cell with high avidity. The cytotoxic portions of the compound may be a subunit of an oligomer, may contain a binding site for a small molecule, may be streptavidin, may be a dimeric ribonuclease or may be DNAso-I. The target cell-specific portion may comprise two or more binding sites for the target cell, may be an antibody or fragment thereof, or may be an ScFv. A compound suitable for cell agglutination, particularly haemagglutination. A compound comprising a mediator portion and a directly or indirectly cytotoxic portion wherein the mediator portion recognises a target cell-specific molecule and provides a means of indirect targeting. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2299274-A (GB)
Title: Golf club
Inventor: MAURICE BRIAN ARMSTEAD
IPC: A63B53/04
Filed: 1995-07-07
Abstract: A golf putter, has a head (5) and a shaft (1), wherein the head (5) may have an arcuate base (11) having a radius of curvature of e.g. about 10 cm, or less. The head (5) has a planar striking surface (7) and is symmetrical about a plane parallel to the striking surface, the axis of the shaft (1) lying in the plane of symmetry. In preferred embodiments, the head (5) is at least about 3-5 cm thick in a direction perpendicular to the striking surface (7). The head may be provided with a ridge or marker (17) perpendicular to the striking surface. Weight portions (13,21) are provided located adjacent the outer edges of the head, each portion (13,21) being arranged substantially symmetrically about the plane of symmetry.
Patent GB-2290908-A (GB)
Title: Semiconductor memory device capacitors
Inventor: CHIN DAE-JE
IPC: H01L27/108
Filed: 1992-09-07
Abstract: A storage capacitor has a storage electrode 36 and a dielectric layer 40 formed on the storage electrode, wherein the storage electrode 36 is of polysilicon and includes a plurality of microtrenches and/or microcylinders formed on its surface. Further, the storage electrode 36 with the plurality of microtrenches and/or microcylinders is formed by forming hemispherical grains on a surface of the storage electrode, forming an etching mask layer on side walls of the respective grains, and performing an anisotropic etching by using the etching mask layer as a mask. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2307081-A (GB)
Title: Hospital security alarm system
Inventor: COULL RICHARD DAVID JAMES
IPC: G08B21/22
Filed: 1995-10-05
Abstract: The sensor part of the alarm is a pad placed under the mattress of a baby's cot giving the following advantages over alternative systems using plastic tags;  (1) There is no longer anything in direct contact with, or fitted onto, the baby, and the alarm is therefore harder to 'fool'. (2) As the alarm sensor is on the cot and not around an exit door, the alarm is sounded as soon as an abduction is attempted.  The system also comprises an extension alarm which can be kept at a permanently manned location - i.e. the nurses station, or a security centre, and units, worn about the person of the nurses and the parents of the baby, which deactivate the alarm system when in the vicinity of the child's cot. The system rearms itself when no "authorised person" (a person holding, or carrying, one of these units) is in the vicinity of the cot.
Patent GB-2299056-A (GB)
Title: Device for fastening and tensioning packings on rotary printing cylinder
Inventor: GRUNDKE EDGAR
IPC: B41F27/12
Filed: 1996-03-22
Abstract: The device for fastening and tensioning one or more packings on a cylinder of a sheet-fed rotary printing machine, comprises an axially extending groove formed in the cylinder body, and clamping jaws (9) located within a tensioning rail (5) for gripping a packing (2). A rotatable shaft (11), with shaped cutouts on its periphery, cooperates with fixed fingers (13) and rotates within the rail (5). When a cutout is aligned with an associated finger, a spring (12) is able to push the shaft and rail upwardly, thereby relaxing the grip provided by the jaws on the packing.
Patent GB-2316242-A (GB)
Title: A surface box
Inventor: EMMERSON JOSEPH WILLIAM
IPC: H02G3/18
Filed: 1996-08-09
Abstract: A surface box (1) of the kind which has a cavity (6) for receiving cables and the like, said box (1) including at least one fixing member (9) which in use is adapted to engage at least one sidewall (19) of an opening (15) in a surface (17). The fixing member comprises a section punched from, and therefore integral to, the side wall of the surface box. The member is resiliently deformable and is disposed at an acute angle to the side of the box such that it is depressed as the box is inserted into the whole and yet anchors the box if an attempt is made to remove it.
Patent GB-2316463-A (GB)
Title: Flow control
Inventor: TWIDDY BERNARD
IPC: F23N1/00
Filed: 1996-08-15
Abstract: A flow control system 1 for ensuring that the pressure Pb of the gas flow which is input to burner 2 is regulated regardless of gas supply pressure fluctuations has two flow lines 4,5 in parallel, each having a valve unit 6,7, with a pair of solenoid valves 8 and a single-mode governor 9. Flow line 4 has a fixed-orifice restrictor 10 which causes a pressure differential between points 11 and 12 such that flow lines 4 and 5 share the flow when operating at "high-fire" operation mode. Valve units 6, 7 are standard, conventional mass-produced and widely used valve units which are hence low cost, it being more economical to use two of them in system 1 to give the larger flow capacity required, rather than using one specially-designed valve unit of the large required capacity.
Patent GB-2306774-A (GB)
Title: Semiconductor device having aluminium interconnection
Inventor: KUSUYAMA KOICHI
IPC: H01L21/768
Filed: 1996-10-14
Abstract: The interconnection comprises a titanium-aluminium film with (111) orientation formed directly or indirectly on an insulating film on a semiconductor substrate, and an aluminium film or an aluminium alloy film with (111) orientation formed on the titanium-aluminium film by epitaxial growth. A TiN layer and/or a Ti layer may be interposed between the insulating film and the Ti-Al film. With such structure, electromigration endurance of the aluminium interconnection is improved and a wiring structure can be achieved with high reliability.
Patent GB-2319692-A (GB)
Title: A telephone re-dialling facility
Inventor: CHANG JACKSON
IPC: H04M1/27485
Filed: 1996-11-26
Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for automatically re-dialling a stored telephone number in which the apparatus stores the digits of a telephone number dialled by a caller and also the time intervals which elapse between digits as they are dialled. When the number is then re-dialled the stored intervals are automatically inserted between the digits. This is important when making long distance calls which require the caller to pause during the dialling sequence.