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Patent GB-2278334-A (GB)
Title: Squeeze bottle
Inventor: BUTCHER ROGER ANTHONY
IPC: B05B11/04
Filed: 1993-05-18
Abstract: A squeeze bottle 1 of plastics material has a body 2 of generally oblong-rectangular, elongate shape in horizontal section, the opposed side walls 3 of which are each formed with opposed indents to define inwardly extending opposed protrusions 5 of cylindrical shape. The spacing-apart of the end faces 6 of the protrusions in the relaxed bottle determines the available stroke achievable by squeezing the side walls 3 such that the end faces 6 abut each other. The protrusions 5 are positioned substantially centrally of the side walls 3 in order to define the stroke relatively precisely. The bottle may be combined with a sprayer device having a dip tube. The bottle may be a one-piece moulding. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2280360-A (GB)
Title: Mobile container
Inventor: CLARK DEREK WILFRED
IPC: A47B61/06
Filed: 1993-07-31
Abstract: The container 1 may be used both as a transportation trunk and as a piece of furniture. This enables a single container to be used for both transportation of goods and their storage. The container has wheels 10 and a door 5 and may he provided internally with shelves (15, Fig. 4) or a wardrobe hanging rail. It may be made of multi-laminated plywood. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2283647-A (GB)
Title: Fishing line
Inventor: HURST DAVID ALBERT
IPC: A01K91/00
Filed: 1993-11-11
Abstract: A composite fishing line comprises a multi-filament core (5) surrounded by a braided tubular sheath (6). The composite fishing line is particularly useful as an angling end-rig. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2273714-A (GB)
Title: Process for the prepartion of dispersible quinacridones
Inventor: JOHNSON DAPHNE R
IPC: C09B67/20
Filed: 1993-12-20
Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for conditioning quinacridone pigments by     (a) preparing an aqueous slurry of a crude quinacridone; (b) thoroughly mixing the aqueous slurry with about 0.3 to about 2.9 parts by weight, relative to the quinacridone, of at least one C1-C12 alkyl ester of a C7-C12 aromatic carboxylic acid at a temperature of between about 70 DEG C and about 200 DEG C;   (c) hydrolyzing the alkyl ester used in step (b); and (d) collecting the quinacridone pigment.
Patent GB-2285591-A (GB)
Title: Filtration device for pipe outlet
Inventor: FIRTH ROBERT GEORGE
IPC: B01D29/15
Filed: 1994-01-11
Abstract: The filtration device 2 comprises a hollow cylindrical housing 4 within which is positioned a removable filtration cartridge 6. The device 2 co-operates with an inlet pipe 8 which is arranged to direct fluid to be filtered to a region around the cartridge 6. Filtrate then passes through a filtration membrane of the filtration cartridge 6, as represented by arrows 10, and leaves the device via outlet 12 defined in an outlet housing 13. The filtration cartridge 6 comprises a hollow perforated core 20 (Figure 2) around the outside of which is provided a perforated nylon sleeve 22 (Figure 3). Respective ends of the sleeve are folded back upon themselves and positioned within respective ends of the core. They are secured in position by a respective lower securement member 42 and a lid 60, each of which includes a member (52 and 54, Figures 1 and 4; and 74 and 76, Figures 1 and 5 respectively) which fits within the core and is arranged to clamp the ends of the sleeve in position. A handle 14 is secured to the housing 4 and is arranged to be gripped by one hand of an operator whilst the other hand of the operator may operate a valve (not shown) which is positioned close to, but upstream of, the inlet pipe 8. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2275469-A (GB)
Title: Water filtration
Inventor: VISSER TIMON JACOB
IPC: C02F1/00
Filed: 1992-09-17
Abstract: A point-of-use water filtration and dispensing unit comprises an unfiltered water storage container (16) removably supported above a filtered water reservoir (11). The container has an inlet (17) for unfiltered water and an outlet (25) communicating with the reservoir, with the water in the container being exposed to atmospheric pressure. The filtered water reservoir communicates with a dispensing outlet (13) having tap means (14) which in its closed position resists the hydrostatic pressure of the water in the reservoir and the container. A seal (19, 20) removably seals the reservoir to the container, and a filter (30) is removably located within the unfiltered water container such that water flows through said filter by gravity feed as filtered water is dispensed from the reservoir. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2276956-A (GB)
Title: Fuel control method and system for engine with variable cam timing
Inventor: CLINTON ERIC LEE
IPC: F02D41/14
Filed: 1994-04-06
Abstract: The amount of fuel injected in an engine with variable cam timing is more accurately reflective of engine operating conditions by accounting for the phase angle of the camshaft relative to the crankshaft in the calculation of the cylinder air charge. The cam phase angle for the existing engine speed is sensed and used in the calculation of a manifold filling coefficient which modifies the leakage compensated air flow data obtained from a mass air flow meter. A predicted final cylinder air charge is calculated based on the modified air charge from the manifold filling model and the required fuel for a desired air/fuel ratio is based on the calculated cylinder air charge. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2281868-A (GB)
Title: Hydrodearomatization of hydrocarbons
Inventor: SUDHAKAR CHAKKA
IPC: C10G45/50
Filed: 1994-09-20
Abstract: A naphtha or a middle distillate hydrocarbon is hydrodearomatized by hydrotreating in the presence of a catalyst containing boron, non-noble Group VIII metal, and Group VIB metal on a carbon support.
Patent GB-2285097-A (GB)
Title: Turbojet afterburn unit
Inventor: BEULE FREDERIC
IPC: F02K3/10
Filed: 1994-11-10
Abstract: A turbojet engine is provided with an afterburn unit having non-deformable flame catcher arms 10, in which each flame catcher arm 10 has a streamlined cross-section which is sharp at its upstream end 22 and convexly curved at its downstream end 23, and the final stage of vanes 7 of the turbine blading each has an upstream part 24 which is fixed relative to the engine structure and a downstream part 25 which is pivotable between a first configuration, in which it extends substantially in a radial plane 28 containing the engine axis, and a second configuration, in which it is oriented in a direction K which is oblique to the said radial plane 28. The arrangement provides for turbulence production to facilitate mixing of gases during afterburner operation, and a low-drag configuration when afterburner operation is not required. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2295812-A (GB)
Title: Coupling Device
Inventor: MILLER GARY
IPC: E02F3/36
Filed: 1994-12-08
Abstract: A coupling device for connecting a bucket (32) or like attachment to the dipper arm (8, Fig 2) of an excavator comprises a body member provided with first means (4, 6) enabling connection to the dipper arm (8) and second means including opposed open-sided recesses (18, 20) for receiving associated spaced-apart pin members (34, 36) on the attachment (32, Fig 2) to connect the device to said attachment (32). The second means further includes an externally-threaded shaft (24) mounted on the body and carrying an internally-threaded closure member (30), drive means (22) rotating the shaft (24) to move the closure member (30) therealong into a locking position co-operating with one of said pin members (34) to retain said pin member (34) in the associated recess (20), the co-operation between the threads on the shaft (24) and the closure member (30) being of a self-locking nature whereby the closure member (30), once in its locking position, remains therein on deactivation of the drive means (22). Preferably, the drive is hydraulic. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2285491-A (GB)
Title: Bearing assembly with pads
Inventor: CHESTER KEITH IAN
IPC: F16C33/08
Filed: 1995-01-10
Abstract: A bearing assembly for supporting a rotatable shaft comprises a number of bearing pads 40 supported in a housing 41 and the mutually engaging surfaces of each bearing pad and the housing are two surfaces of closely similar shape. These surfaces diverge in a first direction circumferential to the shaft and are each either rectilinear or only very slightly curved in a second direction at right angles to the first direction. The differences between the two surfaces give a contact angle between the surfaces of less than three degrees (preferably less than one degree) in the first direction and of less than one degree (preferably less than 0.1 degree) in the second direction. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2285814-A (GB)
Title: Sewing machine stitch length regulator
Inventor: SCHOPF DIETER
IPC: F16C3/28
Filed: 1995-01-19
Abstract: In a sewing machine a rotary shaft (5) provides lift motion for a feed dog through an eccentric (34) and connecting members (71, 31) and also provides feed motion through the intermediary of an oscillating shaft (7) driven by an eccentric (43) which is radially adjustable on the rotary shaft (5). The eccentric (43) is frictionally clamped between two members (42, 45) secured to the shaft and is adjustable by means of a screw (60, 81) located in the member (45) and engaging threads in a shoulder portion (78) of the eccentric. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2285684-A (GB)
Title: Method and kits for detection of bacteria
Inventor: SANDERS MICHAEL FREDERICK
IPC: C12Q1/689
Filed: 1993-09-22
Abstract: A method for detection, identification and/or quantification of target organisms of specific bacterial genus, species or serotype, based upon the occurrence of release of cell contents, particularly nucleotides e.g. ATP, on lysis of bacterial cell walls on incubation with bacteriophages (phages) specific for them. When new phage particles are released at the end of the phage replication cycle nucleotide levels are measured and compared with controls. The method provides for the detection of specific bacteria in which insertion of the lux gene into the phage genome is not required yet it is faster and more sensitive than known non-modified phage utilising techniques. The method is only limited by the availability of phage types suitable for selective attack of the target bacteria to be detected and can detect a single Salmonella in a sample of milk in under 12 hours.
Patent GB-2304518-A (GB)
Title: Watering device
Inventor: HOARAU BRENDAN
IPC: A01G27/02
Filed: 1995-09-06
Abstract: A watering device 11 comprises a water container for location in the vicinity of a plant or plants to which water is to be supplied. The container has at least one aperture 17 in a wall of the container of a size such that with water in the container above the level of the aperture(s) there is a controlled release of water through the aperture(s) over a relatively long period of time. Typically the or each aperture has a projection 21 extending through it so that through the or each aperture the controlled flow is by way of a channel whose cross section is in the form of an annulus whose outer boundary is defined by the aperture and whose inner boundary is defined by the projection. The container may take the form of a C-shape enabling plants to be surrounded by the watering device.
Patent GB-2308333-A (GB)
Title: A receipt system for servicing a vending machine comprising a master record sheet and inspection record slips
Inventor: TILLEY DAVID
IPC: B42D15/00
Filed: 1995-12-19
Abstract: The master record sheet 10 receives information about periodic servicing of the machine and includes punched holes for aligning the sheet on pins of a backboard. Record slips 34 receive information about each inspection and include punched holes 32 of narrower pitch so that a part of each slip can be aligned over a portion of a previous slip and be arranged sequentially on the master record sheet. Copying material is provided on the reverse of each slip so that information entered on a given slip can be copied to the neighbouring underlying record slip and also to the master record sheet.
Patent GB-2295697-A (GB)
Title: Method for error correction in measurement of engine speed
Inventor: WROBEL JEREMY STEPHEN
IPC: F02D41/34
Filed: 1994-08-04
Abstract: A fuel system for an engine (10) includes a fuel pump (13), a controller (14) which controls the operation of the fuel pump so that fuel is delivered to the engine at the required time and in the desired quantity, and a transducer (15) for supplying a demand signal to the controller. The system also includes a transducer (16) which provides signals in response to the passage of indicia on a wheel (12) driven by the engine. The system further comprises means for determining the indicia spacing errors and further means responsive to the generally sinusoidal fluctuation of engine speed which corrects the determined spacing errors. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2300436-A (GB)
Title: Shear reinforcement for reinforced concrete
Inventor: PILAKOUTAS KYPROS
IPC: E04C5/06
Filed: 1996-05-03
Abstract: A shear failure reinforcing system for structural elements, in which thin elongate strips of high stiffness material are anchored around a layer of conventional reinforcement, and/or are anchored around a plurality of layers of conventional reinforcement, such that the strips tie the element and improve its resistance to shear failure.
Patent GB-2299747-A (GB)
Title: Cask stand
Inventor: DALE IAN FRANK
IPC: A47G23/02
Filed: 1994-12-16
Abstract: A stand (10) for wine casks (11) having a rectangular block shape and a lower outlet tap (26). The stand consists of a platform (24) which is elevated above a support surface, and side walls (12) for preventing movement of the cask. A glass support means (30) is removably fitted to the stand.
Patent GB-2306278-A (GB)
Title: Selection of error correcting method in a radio communication system
Inventor: KOWAGUCHI SATOSHI
IPC: H04Q7/38
Filed: 1996-10-11
Abstract: In a radio communication system having fixed or mobile slave stations 20 which can communicate with a master station 10, each of the master and slave stations has an error correcting coding/decoding section, 12 or 22, which can operate according to a plurality of error correcting methods. The master station detects the error rate in an upward transmission path from a slave station, and if the detected error rate is higher than a reference value, the master station produces a switch control signal causing the master station to switch from a currently used error correcting method to another method. The switch control signal is also transmitted to the slave station to effect a corresponding change in error correcting method therein. The error correcting methods may be assigned sequence numbers, switching of error correcting methods being sequentially carried out in order of the sequence numbers. The different error correcting methods may use different error correcting codes, such as a block code, a convolution code, a random error correcting code, a burst error correcting code, and a byte error correcting code.
Patent GB-2321927-A (GB)
Title: A releasable coupling
Inventor: INSLEY BRYAN GEORGE
IPC: F16B7/04
Filed: 1997-02-04
Abstract: A releasable coupling for joining together a first and second tubular member for a display board frame is described. The dimensions of the tubular members being such that the first tubular member can slide within the second, the first tubular member including a lug which protrudes through an appropriately sized hole in the wall of the first tubular member, the lug being mateable with an appropriately sized hole on the second tubular member. The lug is mounted on a resiliently deformable support located inside the first tubular member and extending transverse to the longitudinal axis of the first tubular member to prevent slippage. A display board frame comprising a plurality of said tubular members is also described. A method of constructing such a display board frame is also defined. The support is shaped so that its outer surface mimics the shape of the internal surface of the first tubular member.
Patent GB-2310438-A (GB)
Title: Reinforcing material for dental appliances and prostheses
Inventor: KOBASHIGAWA ALVIN I
IPC: A61C19/06
Filed: 1997-02-19
Abstract: A composite material for dental use comprises a resin reinforced by a fabric ribbon, the ribbon comprising high-strength material such as aromatic polyamide or polyethylene interwoven, preferably braided, so that fibres (31) extend diagonally of the ribbon whereby the width of the ribbon may be adjusted as required e.g. to fit a prosthesis. The ribbon may be formed in flat or tubular form. The fibres may be plasma-treated for enhanced adhesion of the resin.
Patent GB-2314479-A (GB)
Title: Special to normal moving picture reproduction mode transition
Inventor: SAKAMOTO HIDEO
IPC: H04N7/173
Filed: 1997-06-18
Abstract: A multimedia data processing system for the reproduction of inter-frame encoded moving picture data comprises a system processing portion 8 connected to a first storing means, 7, for storing separated video and audio data. The system processing portion comprises a second storing means (17, Figure 2) for storing the header data corresponding to the separated video and audio data. When the reproduction mode is changed from special (such as pause or slow motion) to normal modes a data stop request is sent to the multimedia server 2 and a normal reproduction command results in the stored header data being sent to the server 2 so that the block data which is close to the time of the change is sent to the data processing portion, 3. The system prevents the skipping of frames normally associated with the transition from special to normal reproduction modes. The encoded picture data comprises blocks of data each comprising a header portion and minimum picture data elements each of which elements also includes a header portion.
Patent GB-2314142-A (GB)
Title: Hydrodynamic torque converter having a lock-up clutch with conical friction faces
Inventor: OTTO DIETER
IPC: F16H45/02
Filed: 1994-07-04
Abstract: A hydrodynamic torque converter having a housing 2 containing a pump wheel 7, turbine wheel 10, guide disc 12 and a lock-up/bridging clutch 15 with conically formed friction faces 21, 22. A ring piston 17, having on either side an oil fillable chamber 18, 20, supports at least one of the friction faces 22 which can be brought into frictional engagement with a counter friction face 21. Chamber 18 is formed radially inside the friction faces 21, 22 between the ring piston 17 and a component part 4 supporting the counter friction face 21. Channels 25, which may zig-zag or meander, are provided in the radial area of the friction faces 21, 22 in at least one of the components forming or supporting the friction faces. These channels 25 even with engagement of the friction faces 21, 22 allow a cooling oil flow from chamber 20 through the channels 25 radially inwards in the direction of the rotary axis of the torque converter. After leaving the channels 25 the radial flow of oil is directed by a guide channel 18a, located between component parts 17, 24, so as to provide a closed circuit force flow between the parts 17, 24. A regulator valve (542, fig 8a) may be provided in the channels 25 so as to maintain a constant oil volume as temperature varies.
Patent GB-974491-A (GB)
IPC: A01G3/02
Abstract: 974,491. Hand shears. WILKINSON SWORD Ltd., and H. B. RANDOLPH. Feb. 24, 1961 [March 1, 1960; Oct. 4, 1960], Nos. 7150/60 and 33936/60. Heading B4B. [Also in Division E2] In a hand tool such as scissors, secateurs or the like comprising two co-operating members movable about a connecting pivot 12, the pivot is rigidly fixed to the member 11 and has an inclined bearing surface 12b which engages an inclined bearing surface 10c rigidly fixed relative to the member 10, and the members have a limited freedom of relative movement at right angles to the pivot axis so that the reaction at the bearing surfaces resulting from cutting tends to produce relative movement of the bearing surfaces in a direction to urge the members towards one another parallel to the pivot axis. The bearing surfaces may be conical or spherical. Each member comprises a blade 10b, 11b secured to a backing portion made of light material, such as aluminium alloy, integral with the handles, and the pivot passes through an aperture 10c<SP>1</SP> in the blade 10b so that the head of the pivot lies in a recess 10e in the member 10. The head and aperture are preferably shaped so that the members can be separated in a certain relative angular position. A spring 14 is provided to urge the members towards the open position. The rake of the cutting edge of one or both of the blades may vary along the length of the blades. Specification 916,411 is referred to.
Patent GB-2321759-A (GB)
Title: High-speed data recording on DVD-RAM
Inventor: KIM SUK-BUM
IPC: G11B7/0045
Filed: 1998-01-26
Abstract: A data recording method for error-correction-coding (ECC) which encodes and modulates data of a file to be recorded in units of a data block, and records the encoded and modulated data on a digital versatile disk-random access memory (DVD-RAM). Dummy data is added to make a last data block when the size of a file to be recorded is not an integer multiple of a data block, and then the last data block is ECC-encoded and modulated for recording the same on a DVD-RAM. The recording of data is performed in a recording region of a DVD-RAM where no data is recorded, without reading and regeneration of previously recorded data, and also starts from a recording region just next to the last data even when the last data of the previously recorded file includes dummy data.
Patent GB-2323162-A (GB)
Title: Flicker photometer
Inventor: BONE RICHARD ANDREW
IPC: G01J1/22
Filed: 1998-03-04
Abstract: In a flicker photometer to measure the level of macular pigment in the eye of a subject, a light source 1 produces two beams of light of different wavelengths that are alternately directed to the eyepiece 2 via a rotating chopper 18. The intensity of one of the beams is adjusted by the subject until no or minimal flicker is observed by the subject. The intensity adjustment means comprises a wedge-shaped attenuation filter 20 that is positioned in the path of one of the beams by an electric motor 22. In a further embodiment the light source, filter and chopper are located on a table 60 so that is moveable by means of motor 80 or handle 68 so that the photometer can be used with both short and long sighted subjects. The chopper 18 alternately allows transmission 2 of attenuated light via window 6 to the eyepiece or reflects light via its bevelled edge (186,188,figure 18) to the eyepiece. Use of the bevelled edge of the chopper leads to a compact layout.
Patent GB-2331912-A (GB)
Title: Preparation of ice cream novelties
Inventor: TUCKER JOHN VINCENT
IPC: A23G9/48
Filed: 1998-03-16
Abstract: Ice cream novelties are prepared by forming an ice cream core 2 on a stick 1, coating a viscous liquid 4, e.g. caramel, on the core at below 0C, and covering the coated core with an outer layer 5, e.g. of chocolate. The ice cream core may be coated with chocolate 3 before application of the caramel layer. The caramel coating may be applied by dipping the ice cream core, supported by the stick, in a reservoir of caramel, the reservoir having a weir such that the core passes through the reservoir and over the weir. Caramel that spills over the weir is collected and recycled.
Patent GB-2336038-A (GB)
Title: Surface cooling of electrical machines
Inventor: SAMBATH HENG PHALLA
IPC: H02K9/04
Filed: 1998-04-02
Abstract: In an electrical machine such as electric motor comprising a casing, which contains rotatable components, air direction means is provided and constructed and arranged to direct an air current over the exterior of the machine. The air direction means may be in the form of a cowl which may be an extension of or secured to a fan housing.