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Patent GB-2270965-A (GB)
Title: Video game machine with radio link.
Inventor: WANG JIUNN-GUEY
IPC: A63F13/06
Filed: 1992-09-24
Abstract: The video game machine comprises a casing (1, 2) shaped to be gripped at opposite ends by the hands of a player and containing video game control circuitry (3); game playing control keys (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19) positioned towards the opposite ends of the casing so as to be operable by the player when gripping the opposite ends of the casing; and a radio signal transmitter (21) provided on or in the casing for transmitting a game signal by radio transmission to a receiver for a television set This construction removes the need for wires between the control keys and the control circuitry, and between the control circuitry and the television set. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2259874-A (GB)
Title: Printed substrates having relief surfaces
Inventor: PAPAIOANNOU COSTAS
IPC: B41M3/06
Filed: 1992-09-28
Abstract: A layer of varnish is applied to a printed surface and a second layer of material is applied on top which is an intermittent layer thereby providing a tactile effect in addition to a visual effect. Furthermore the second layer of material can be applied to the substrate such that the area of application matches a particular element depicted by the layer of print which will remain viewable through the layers applied thereto. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2271479-A (GB)
Title: Dimmable H.F. flourescent lamp driver with regulated output
Inventor: TAILOR MAHENDRA
IPC: H02M7/537
Filed: 1992-10-07
Abstract: A switching device 4 is turned on by a RS latch 8 in response to a pulse from a high frequency oscillator 9 and the switch is turned off when a comparator 7 detects that the primary current of a transformer has reached a reference level. The intensity of lamp 3 therefore does not change until variation of the supply voltage Vin, but can be adjusted by varying the reference input to comparator 7. The circuit may be used with the supply Vin derived from mains A.C. without filtering, and the low reactance of the circuit obviates the need for power factor correction. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2272367-A (GB)
Title: "Sick bed"
Inventor: HUNG YUNG-FENG
IPC: A61G7/015
Filed: 1992-11-16
Abstract: A multi-function and automatic sick bed, comprises left and right elevating mechanisms, and front and rear elevating mechanisms, with each of the aforesaid elevating mechanisms including motor, gears, screw rod and connecting rod; each elevating mechanism being adjustable to provide a comfortable position for a patient's head, legs or feet. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2271263-A (GB)
Title: Tool for manually, loosening and aerating soil
Inventor: BRUNET ERIC NICOLAS
IPC: A01D9/00
Filed: 1992-11-26
Abstract: A tool for manually tilling, loosening and aerating soil and removing vegetation has relatively short handles 7 that are spaced apart to permit the handles to be brought around the sides of the operator during use. Tines 3 for engaging the soil are mounted on a crossbar 1 and are of a length to project into the soil for tilling and turning the soil. The handles are mounted in a pair of sleeves 5 fixed to the crossbar at opposite ends of the crossbar. The sleeves provide a means for holding the handles in position without welding or otherwise affecting the handle materials and thus provide strength and durability of attachment. The sleeves may have means for releasably holding the handles in the sleeves. The handles may be of varying lengths, or adjustable in length, and the tines may be 2 or more in number and may be supplemented by other ground engaging means, such as cutting blades. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2274487-A (GB)
Title: Security container
Inventor: DEAN THOMAS WILLIAM GEORGE
IPC: G07F9/06
Filed: 1993-01-20
Abstract: A security container comprises a box (1), an upper, compartmented money receiving drawer (3) slidable into the upper part of the box, and a lower compartmented security drawer slidable into the lower part (9) of the box. The money receiving upper drawer is provided with hinged base parts (7) which in the open position partially withdrawn from the box retain notes in the upper drawer but in the closed position within the box allow the notes to fall into the lower security drawer. First lock means are arranged to retain the lower drawer in the box and a cover plate is insertable over the lower drawer with the first lock means being releasable only when the cover plate is located over the lower drawer to prevent access thereto. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2263279-A (GB)
Title: Separation of proteins and dyes
Inventor: JOHNSON RICHARD ALAN
IPC: C07K14/765
Filed: 1993-02-09
Abstract: Problem: when proteins are purified using a protein-binding dye immobilised on a chromatographic matrix, the dye or a portion/derivative may leak into the eluant. Solution: an ion-exchange resin (e.g. Dowex-1) and a disrupting material (e.g. salt and a fatty acid such as sodium octanoate) are used to separate the dye from the protein.
Patent GB-2275565-A (GB)
Title: An electric cable
Inventor: LEUNG TONY KIT LUN
IPC: H01B7/38
Filed: 1993-02-18
Abstract: An electric cable structure 1 comprises two cables 2, 3, a jacket of flexible insulating material extruded about the cables 2, 3 to surround each of the cables and maintain them in untwisted generally parallel relation. The jacket is substantially circular in cross-section, being comprised of halves 5, 6 each of a substantially semi-circular cross-section joined together at the central axis of the cable structure by a thin web 7 to permit, if desired, each half 5, 6 of the jacket to be separated from the other. The separated halves each have a flat surface so that they can be mounted easily on a ceiling, wall or floor. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2277706-A (GB)
Title: A multi part rubber sole and method of manufacture thereof
Inventor: LO CHIE-FANG
IPC: A43B13/12
Filed: 1993-04-23
Abstract: The invention offers the three colour side wall rubber soles in easily changeable mode. It refers to integrated multi-colour rubber soles manufacture thereof by a mould set with the changeability of colour rings in various series. The invention may be directly applied to the streamline of soles for shoes. The invention is simply designed and provides interchangeability of colours within the sole during manufacture thereof. The mould set comprises panel 1, having sole-shaped pressers 11, colour separating panels 2, 4, a plate colouring ring 3, a pattern plate 5, a handle 13 and a corrugated structure in regions where panel and plate contact each other. A sidewall guarding separating line is set along lateral sides of panel 1. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2277367-A (GB)
Title: Solenoid-operated spool valve
Inventor: ROMER PETER GRAHAM
IPC: F15B13/044
Filed: 1993-04-24
Abstract: A solenoid-operated spool valve 6 for use in a clutch control system has a valve body 11 with a spool 20 reciprocable within a bore 12 and a return spring 30 at one end of the spool which acts between the spool and an end cap 33 mounted in a screw-threaded portion 34 of the bore 12 such that the axial position of the end cap is adjustable to determine the position of the spool during activation of the solenoid by electrical current. The minimum torque load required to turn the end cap 33 within screw-threaded bore portion 34 is determined by a resilient clip friction damping device 40 acting between the end cap 33 and the valve body 12. The clip 40 is U-shaped, its free end portions 41 being bent normal to the remainder of the clip. The portions 41 are pushed between rebated portions of the end cap 33 and the screw-threaded bore 34. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2267858-A (GB)
Title: Thermally insensitive connecting seam
Inventor: SCHNURR EDKHARD
IPC: F16B1/00
Filed: 1993-05-12
Abstract: A connecting seam connects a base body (10) and an intermediate ring (14) composed of different metals exhibiting different thermal dilatation coefficients. The connecting seam is provided by an annular connecting element (20) composed of two metal layers (22, 24) interconnected by roll-bonded cladding. The thermal dilatation coefficient and the metallic properties of each of these metal layers (22, 24) is similar to those of a collar (18) on the body (10) and the intermediate ring (14), respectively, adjacent thereto. The collar (18) and the intermediate ring (14) are both connected to the connecting element by welding, soldering or cementing. The intermediate ring (14) carries a dome, (Fig. 1 not shown) such as a seeker dome on the front of a missile airframe. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2268968-A (GB)
Title: Lock mechanism with improved burglary resistance.
Inventor: MIELONEN PEKKA
IPC: E05B29/00
Filed: 1993-07-06
Abstract: A cylinder lock mechanism with improved burglary resistance, including a lock body (5) housing a turnable lock cylinder (6) enclosing a set of locking discs (7) and an elongate locking bar (8), which in its locked position is partly located in a groove (9) in the inner surface of the lock body (5) and partly in a slot (10) in the lock cylinder (6) to prevent turning of the lock cylinder (6) relative to the lock body (5). The slot (10) in the lock cylinder (6) is provided with at least one protrusion (13) extending transversely with regard to the slot (10) and arranged preferably in the inner end thereof. The locking bar (8) is provided with a depression (14) arranged to cooperate with the protrusion (13) and prevent displacement of the locking bar (8) in the elongate direction thereof out from the slot (10) in the lock cylinder (6). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2271162-A (GB)
Title: Cross-groove homokinetic universal joint
Inventor: FUKUMURA YOSHIKAZU
IPC: F16D3/227
Filed: 1993-09-29
Abstract: A cross groove type homokinetic joint is disclosed which requires no boot adaptor, and is thus less expensive than a conventional joint. The joint is provided with an arrangement for preventing the balls from dropping out1 while enabling a shaft (5), secured to an inner ring (1) of the joint, to assume a large working angle ( theta ) relative to an outer ring (4) of the joint. The inner ring (1) has grooves in its outer surface, balls (3) received one in each of the grooves of the inner ring, and a cage (2) retaining the balls. The outer ring (4) has grooves (4a) in its inner surface in which the balls (3) are received and guided. A boot (8) is directly fixed to the outer ring. A circlip (10) is fitted to the inner surface of the outer ring (4) near its open end, to prevent the balls (3) from dropping out. An additional circlip (11) is fitted to the inner surface of the outer ring (4) remote from its open end, to limit the maximum working angle of the shaft (5). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2274013-A (GB)
Title: Sign panel framing.
Inventor: TILL JAMES ALFRED
IPC: G09F15/00
Filed: 1994-01-21
Abstract: A fastener 95 fittable between adjacent sign frame members 92, 93 to secure the same together in an extruded sign frame comprises frame-engaging portions 109, 110 adapted to slidably engage with cooperating portions 107 of the adjacent frame members to secure them mutually together. At least one of the frame-engaging portions 109, 110 is provided with tooth means 112 projecting therefrom and arranged so as to offer relatively little resistance to engagement of the fastener with the respective frame member but to bite into a portion of the frame member to prevent or restrict subsequent disengagement of the fastener from the frame member. The fastener is suitable for use in a frame construction for use with top-hanging sign panels in which the panel is filled into the upper frame member 92 by inserting an upper edge of the panel, provided with a rib, from the front at an angle to the plane of the frame and then moving the panel into the suspended condition in which the rib rests on a flange 97 provided within the upper frame member. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2286240-A (GB)
Title: Glove box ventilation
Inventor: ALLSOP PETER JAMES
IPC: B25J21/02
Filed: 1994-01-26
Abstract: A glove box ventilation system, for use with one or more glove boxes (12) each having a casing (15) defining a working space (11) and a glove (14) secured to the casing (15) and protruding into the working space (11), includes; a header (30) connected to an extract fan (36), the connection (31) between the header (30) and the fan (36) being such as to provide substantially no pressure drop over the design working range and the fan (36) being designed to operate over a substantially flat part (32) of its characteristic, and means for connecting the header (30) to one or more glove boxes (12).   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2275299-A (GB)
Title: Clamp assembly
Inventor: HEINE HELMUT
IPC: G02C9/04
Filed: 1994-02-15
Abstract: A clamp assembly comprises a clamp (12) having two levers (1, 2) pivotally linked together with first ends of the levers being closable together to form clamping laws (5, 6) and second, opposite, ends of the levers being formed as manually openable grips (3, 4) for separating the clamping jaws, which are spring loaded toward one another. The clamping jaws (5, 6) are forked in shape, the branches of the forks, and the ends thereof, being arranged to be spaced from one another so that they extend across, or extend over, a bridge of a pair of eyeglasses to be placed on inner, upper edges of spectacle glasses (13) or on an eyeglass frame (14). A first lever (2) of the clamp (12) is provided with a clamp coupling element (10) which is selectively attachable to, and selectively detachable from, an optical-device (not shown). The clamp assembly makes possible an easy and quick exchange of optical devices for attachment to eyeglasses. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2286811-A (GB)
Title: Receptacle such as feeding bottle with sub compartment
Inventor: THOMAS GARY WAYNE
IPC: A61J9/00
Filed: 1994-02-24
Abstract: A receptacle, eg a baby's feeding bottle, comprises a main compartment 11 for receiving milk and an integral sub-compartment 14 which projects axially upwards into the main compartment 11 from the base 15 of the bottle. In use, the sub-compartment 14 can be filled with ice cubes to cool hot milk in the surrounding main compartment 11. The subcompactment may be rectangular or square in section. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2288287-A (GB)
Title: Electrical connector
Inventor: KAVIANI HOMAYOON BEHKISH
IPC: H01R25/00
Filed: 1994-03-10
Abstract: An electrical connector 10 having male connector means 16 - 20 electrically connected to female connector means 22 - 26, and internal terminal means (60, 66, 70, 78, figure 2B, not shown) for receiving electrical connector wires 14 and for forming an electrical connection between said wires and said male connector means. The connector 10 can comprise a mains supply plug/adaptor. The plug body is in two parts and includes wire guiding partitions, a cable clamp and a shutter. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2276744-A (GB)
Title: Memory module with parity bit emulation.
Inventor: KONG EDMUND YICK WANG
IPC: G06F11/10
Filed: 1994-04-29
Abstract: A memory module, parity bit emulator, and method which emulate storing and retrieving a parity bit from memory. The memory module includes a memory for storing a data word which is retrieved from the memory during a read cycle. The memory module also includes a parity bit generator. The parity bit generator is responsive to the retrieved data word and generates a corresponding parity bit during the read cycle. The inversion saves substrate space by not having to physically store a parity bit. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2290482-A (GB)
Title: Pictorial competition entry apparatus
Inventor: RENSHAW LOUISE
IPC: A63F3/06
Filed: 1994-05-27
Abstract: A games piece 1 comprises a sheet 2 that is at least partially transparent and has a plurality of location-marking indicia 3 thereon and an adhesive layer 4 on one surface thereof. The piece may be used to mark entries in a "spot-the-ball" competition. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2280585-A (GB)
Title: A grass collection device for a lawn mower
Inventor: KIRTON PETER JOHN
IPC: A01D34/63
Filed: 1994-06-06
Abstract: A lawn mower has a removable collection device for collecting cut grass entrained in a stream of air. The collection device comprises an impermeable outer casing 1 including an inlet for cut grass, a base wall, an upper wall and one or more side walls connecting the base and the upper wall, an inner lining 2 supportable within the outer casing and constituting a container for retaining cut grass and with at least a portion thereof permeable to air, and one or more air exhaust apertures in the region of the base wall of the outer casing for leading exhaust air from the device. In a further embodiment the air stream passes through air permeable cartridges (23, Fig. 3) which are supported from a wall of the casing. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2293539-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to carrot processing machines
Inventor: MCKENNA WILLIAM JAMES
IPC: A23N15/04
Filed: 1994-09-27
Abstract: A carrot processing machine having an accumulation well, an elevating conveyor (16), and sensing means (18, 20, 22, 24). Carrots are delivered into the well by a delivery conveyor and a constant head of carrots maintained by signals derived from a height sensing means controlling the delivery conveyor. The elevating conveyor (16) is provided with a series of pockets (28, 30, 32, 34) into which the carrots are urged by vibration of the well. Cutting blades (124, 126, 128, 130) are provided further along the conveyor for topping and tailing the carrots and segmenting them into short lengths. Endwise movement of the carrots (in their pockets) is achieved by engagement between transversely extending endless belts and the carrots in the conveyor pockets or by tilting the conveyor. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2294281-A (GB)
Title: Fire door
Inventor: TEOW KHEK SOO
IPC: E06B5/16
Filed: 1994-10-06
Abstract: The present invention is an improved fire resistant door having timber frames and at least one leaf incorporating at least one composite panel. The frame comprises rails and stiles 24, 25, 36 made from hardwood. The inner edges of the rails and stiles have grooves to receive the outer edges of the panels. The composite panel comprises at least three layers. The exposed layer 26, 27, 30, 40 (facing the flame) and the unexposed layer 29 (facing away from the flame) comprise subpanels made from hardwood. Sandwiched between the exposed and unexposed layers is an intermediate layer 28 comprising either an insulation material or fire resistant material such as calcium silicate board. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, a double doorset incorporating various three layer panels sustained fire integrity test for approximately an hour. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2283649-A (GB)
Title: Agricultural machinery
Inventor: CAMPBELL STEWART GEORGE
IPC: A01B73/00
Filed: 1994-05-05
Abstract: The invention relates to an agricultural machine that may be towed by a tractor. The machine comprises a frame (2) which supports agricultural instrumentalities such as couters (12), or fertiliser dispensers and a first roller means comprised, in the example described, by a soil crumbling bar (8) and a soil compacting bar (10) which rotate when the machine is towed in direction A by a first tow bar attachment means (22). A second roller means is comprised by road wheels (30) which rotate about an axis parallel to direction A, and which are pivoted to an out-of-the-way position while the machine is operational. When the road wheels (30) are in contact with the ground, second tow bar attachment means (26) are extended in direction B, at right angles to direction A, and the operating instrumentalities (12) are swung upwardly and inwardly to reduce the width of the machine in direction A. Field wheels (36) may be dropped down by power-lacks (40) to lift the machine should the bars (8, 10) become bogged down in use. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2290059-A (GB)
Title: Shock absorber for steering column
Inventor: YOSHIMOTO SHIN
IPC: B62D1/19
Filed: 1995-04-27
Abstract: In a shook absorbing steering device for relieving a shock applied to a body of a driver who is hit to a steering wheel by reducing a peak load at an initial moment of a secondary collision, a shock energy caused by the secondary collision is absorbed by flexing a bending portion 28 of an energy absorbing plate 24 having a rear end 25 thereof supported by a car body. A slot 29 is formed in the bending portion and a sectional area of the bending portion is consequently reduced so that the bending portion is relatively easy to deform plastically. The bending portion 28 is located in guides 30 and is held in place by a flexing pin 34 and retention plates 32 on support bracelet 4b mounted on the steering column. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2302535-A (GB)
Title: Particle Dispenser
Inventor: FENNER MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: B65D88/66
Filed: 1995-06-22
Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing powders, granules or particulate products, comprising a hopper having a upper wide cylindrical inlet 2 and narrow lower cylindrical discharge port 6 and an intermediate frustoconical portion 4. A flexible frustoconical liner 18 lines the hopper and has an upper annular flange 22 which forms a gasket between the inlet 2 and the frustoconical portion 4 and a lower annular flange 20 which forms a gasket between the frustoconical portion 4 and the outlet port 6. Openings 30 in the wall of the frustoconical portion 4 are covered by a housing 32 which is mounted on the outer wall of the portion 4 and supplies pulsating air to vibrate the liner to break any bridges formed by the material flowing through the hopper. Alternatively, the liner may be vibrated mechanically.
Patent GB-2302897-A (GB)
Title: Kerbstone
Inventor: LINSLEY STEPHEN WILLIAM ERRING
IPC: E01C11/22
Filed: 1995-07-01
Abstract: A kerbstone has precast holes therein so that two adjacent kerbstones may be joined together by means of pins in a precise and secure manner.
Patent GB-2303140-A (GB)
Title: Detergent compositions
Inventor: BAILLELY GERARD MARCEL
IPC: C11D1/86
Filed: 1995-07-08
Abstract: A detergent composition suitable for use in laundry and dishwashing methods comprises  (a) a foaming surfactant system comprising surfactant selected from anionic, non-ester cationic, nonionic, ampholytic, amphoteric and zwitterionic surfactants and any mixtures thereof; (b) a hydrolysable cationic ester surfactant; (c) an alkalinity system having the capacity to deliver alkalinity to a wash solution as measured by the alkalinity release test method described herein such that the % weight NaOH equivalent of the composition is greater than 5% by weight of the composition; and (d) an antifoam compound wherein the weight ratio of foaming surfactant to cationic ester surfactant is from 100:1 to 2:1 and the weight ratio of cationic ester surfactant to antifoam compound is from 50:1 to 1:5.
Patent GB-2304626-A (GB)
Title: Greetings card with puzzle picture
Inventor: KOTAKE TOSHIHARU
IPC: B42D15/04
Filed: 1995-09-02
Abstract: A greetings card 100 comprising numbered self-adhesive picture portions 22 releasably and randomly attached to a backing sheet 2, such that they can be attached to a numbered grid 3 of a folding card 1 to reconstitute the picture.
Patent GB-2292315-A (GB)
Title: A Drug delivery composition for alpha-adreno receptor blocking agents
Inventor: ILLUM LISBETH
IPC: A61K47/30
Filed: 1994-05-27
Abstract: The invention provides an oral drug delivery composition comprising an  alpha  -adreno receptor blocking drug characterised in that the composition is adapted to release a first portion of the drug in the upper gastrointestinal tract and to release a second portion of the drug by sustained release in the terminal ileum and/or the colon. This composition provides a two phase release profile which maintains sufficient and steady plasma levels for therapeutic effect whilst minimising side effects by avoiding a high peak in plasma levels. The sustained release of the second and optionally the first portion of the drug is achieved by a controlled release system such as a hydrophilic gel matrix. The specific release of the second portion of the drug in the colon can be achieved by coating tablets containing the second portion with a pH or redox sensitive coating such as a polymethylmethacrylate.