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Patent GB-2471531-A (GB)
Title: Buoyant subsea equipment support system.
Inventor: BONE DAVID
IPC: B63B35/44
Filed: 2009-09-22
Abstract: Buoyant subsea equipment support system has a buoyant structure 1 moored above a subbase structure 2 using flexible connectors 3 attached near the seabed. Buoyant structure 1 has water surface piercing upper structure. The platform includes winch support means 5 and other subsea equipment support means 7. The base 2 is formed such that wellheads can be located within or next to its perimeter. The base 2 can be recessed and have holes through it for location of the christmas trees 4. Crane 10 is positionable on a gantry 5 directly over any of the christmas trees on the base 2. Guide frame 11 can be attached to the tethers 3 which holds marine risers 8 in position. A lubricator may be installed at the wellhead.
Patent GB-2469160-A (GB)
Title: A Miniature, Weather Resistant Proximity Reader
Inventor: TYMLIN DAVID
IPC: G06K7/00
Filed: 2009-12-08
Abstract: A miniature, weather resistant proximity reader 1 containing a RFID proximity tag reader. The proximity reader has a housing 3 with a pair of screw posts 17, 19 that extend through the housing to enable the proximity reader to be secured to a wall or other structure. A pair of screw caps cover the screw posts and are secured in the housing via engaging arms that engage with corresponding slots in the housing. A front facing speaker is mounted in the casing and a plurality of speaker holes are formed in the housing adjacent and surrounding the screw post. These speaker holes are in turn covered by a screw cap. The thickness of the screw cap may be reduced adjacent to the speaker holes. An annular gasket 23 may surround the speaker holes. Also disclosed is a process of manufacturing a proximity reader.
Patent GB-2464005-A (GB)
Title: Optical sensor for measuring downhole ingress of debris
Inventor: CHILDERS BROOKS
IPC: E21B47/04
Filed: 2008-06-09
Abstract: An optical sensing member within the anullus zone of a well is disclosed, which sensing member determines the level of debris in the well. When debris accumulates within the anullus zone, said sensing member returns a signal indicative of the level of such debris within the zone. The optical sensing member may include an optical fiber and/or any known optical sensors configured to determine strain, pressure, shape, force, and/or temperature.
Patent GB-147984-A (GB)
Title: Combined invalid cot and stretcher
IPC: A61G1/048
Filed: 1919-04-22
Abstract: 147,984. Master, S. D. April 22, 1919. Litters.-A convertible cot and stretcher comprises L-shaped leg-members d attached to the bottom frame by squared parts of the cross-rails b and nuts f so that they may be placed in several positions to support the cot at different heights. The longer arms h of the leg-members and the projecting ends c of the side bars, may be used as carrying-handles. For additional security, the legs are also secured by bolts o passed through apertures n into the frame members. Instead of a squared stem with a securing nut, a stud l with a fea,ther k may be employed in association with a locking-bolt o. The side members of the cot may be made in parts detachable as at p,. Fig. 9.
Patent GB-591156-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to frames for cigarette cases
IPC: A24F15/20
Filed: 1945-04-21
Abstract: 591,156. Cigarette cases. MYATT, T. H. (trading as COPE & PARTNERS). April 21, 1945, No. 10073. [Class 18] A frame 5 for cigarette cases of non-rigid material, comprises a top bar 6 having downwardly turned end portions 6a which are hinged to the end members 5b of the frame, the portions 6a having recessed parts 6d which co-act with projections 5c on the end members 5b to ensure that the top bar 6 can only be displaced in a backward direction and that it will be maintained in the retaining position when the case is closed. The frame is divided into three equal parts by a U-strip 5a the base of which is riveted to the bottom bar of the frame. The top bar may be provided with means to limit the degree of backward movement thereof. The invention may be applied to cigarette cases having single pockets.
Patent GB-911752-A (GB)
Title: Improved apparatus for the condensation of waste steam
IPC: F28B1/06
Filed: 1961-03-20
Abstract: 911,752. Condensing steam. HERMANN, F., and WARTENBERG, K. W. March 20, 1961, No. 10074/61. Class 64 (3). An air-cooled condenser for waste steam comprises a box 1 having cooling air tubes 2 extending between opposite walls 11, 12, ducts 4 leading the steam into the box and baffles 3 mounted on the cooling tubes 2 for deflecting the condensate from the surfaces of the tubes and conveying it to a tank 9. The baffles may consist of plastic material and the portions thereof surrounding the openings for the air tubes are formed into flanges or flaps. The air tubes have internal bent radial fins, some of which meet at the axis of the tube and the rest terminate short of the axis of the tube. The intake ends of the air tubes are provided with flared members preferably made of plastic material. A plurality of cooling boxes are arranged in inclined position and air is sucked or blown through the air tubes by a blower. The steam is delivered from a main to the extremities and/or the sides of the boxes or to a tank for collecting the condensate from all the boxes.
Patent GB-1019403-A (GB)
Title: Cine films and projection apparatus therefor
IPC: G03B41/10
Filed: 1964-03-10
Abstract: 1,019,403. Cine projectors; cine films. SOC D' EXPLOITATION DES LABORATORIES DU FORMAT REDUIT TIRAGE 16 and J.A.DESCOMBES March 10,1964 [March 15, 1963];No. 10091/64. Headings G2C and G2E. A cine projector 13 adapted to use continuously fed 16 mm film of the "silent" type having two rows of perforations 1, 2 in which a sound track is provided adjacent each row of perforations, each sound track 3, 4 corresponding to one of a pair of film frame sequences A, B, C &c., and a, b, c &c., arranged as two series of alternate frames in complementary superposed positions in the space between said tracks. The height of two frames is the same as the spacing between successive film perforations, and to change from one sequence to the other, lever 17 is moved whereby lever 11 moves roller 10 through one frame height and the film moves through this distance past the projection aperture 9 owing to the spring tension roller 6. At the same time lever 16 switches from one to the other of contacts 19, 20 in the circuits of sound heads 14, 15 registering with tracks 3, 4. Rotating mirror 24 compensates for the continuous feed. The same frame arrangement may be used with film perforated on one side only, or provided with stereo sound tracks. Application to multiple film coinfreed apparatus is mentioned.
Patent GB-1520068-A (GB)
Title: Links-links flat-bed knitting machine having four needle beds
IPC: D04B7/00
Filed: 1976-03-12
Abstract: 1520068 Knitting machines UNIVERSAL MASCHINENFABRIK DR RUDOLF SCHIEBER KG 12 March 1976 [13 March 1975] 10104/76 Headings D1C and D1K A double links-links flat bed knitting machine, for knitting tubular links-links and rechts-rechts fabric, has two pairs of opposed needle beds 1, 2; 3, 4 each pair lying in the same plane and the two planes intersecting along a line parallel to the needle beds and lying between the beds of each pair. Each pair of beds has double ended latch needles 9; 10 transferable between the beds 1, 3 and 2, 4 by sliders 5, 6 and 11, 12. Beds 2; 4 also have plates 7; 13 which, on transfer of needles from beds 2; 4 to beds 1; 3 enable stitches to be dropped off the needles and transferred back thereto within the hooks with the latches open to allow the needles to be withdrawn without losing their stitches while knitting takes place on the other beds. One half of the tubular fabric is knitted on each pair of beds links-links or like patterning being achieved by needle transfer and knitting taking place alternately on the two pairs of beds. The slide may have two sets of cams.
Patent GB-1401917-A (GB)
Title: N-aoyl-n,-alkylhydroxyphenyl alkanoyl-hydrazines
IPC: C09K15/24
Filed: 1973-03-01
Abstract: 1401917 Stabilizing polymers CIBAGEIGY AG 1 March 1973 [2 March 1972] 10108/73 Heading C3P [Also in Divisions C2 and C5] Synthetic resins, e.g. polypropylene, are stabilized against oxidative and/or thermal deterioration by incorporation therein of a compound of Formula I (in which R 1  is C 1-5  alkyl, R 2  is H or C 1-5  alkyl, each of R 3  and R 4  is H, halogen, C 1-18  alkoxy or C 1-18  alkyl and n is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5) and optionally a compound of Formula III (in which R is C 6-24  alkyl and n is 1 to 6), e.g. distearylthiodipropionate.
Patent GB-186577-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to provision safe supports
IPC: A47J47/00
Filed: 1922-04-10
Abstract: 186,577. Haluska, A. Sept. 29, 1921, [Convention date]. Meat safes.-A provision safe is mounted on an exterior wall of a building, adjacent to a window, and is adapted to be swung into or away from the window opening. A bracket 5, secured to the wall, has two arms 8 between which one end 10 of a rod 11 is pivoted, the other end 12 being pivoted to a platform 14 of lazy-tong construction, braces 15 being provided. The safe 18 is bolted to the platform 14 near to its remote end, a loop 20 being provided for extending and swinging the platform. A catch 16 engages notches in the upper arm 8 for retaining the safe either in the window opening, perpendicular to the wall or parallel to the wall away from the window.
Patent GB-1421742-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for controlling the flow of gas
IPC: F15D1/02
Filed: 1972-03-04
Abstract: 1421742 Gas chromatography PYE LTD 2 March 1973 [4 March 1972] 10210/72 Addition to 1241867 Heading B1H [Also in Division G3] The invention of the parent Specification 1241867 wherein gas is passed through a long flow passage of a control element which is heated to change the viscosity and therefore the flow rate of the gas, is modified essentially by the provision of a gas flow transducer in connection with the inlet of the control element to produce an output signal which is a continuous function of the gas flow rate. The output signal can control means for changing the temperature of the control element. The transducer may be a hot-wire or ionisation anemometer, a piezoelectric crystal, a thermistor, a thermocouple, a resistance thermometer, or a differential heatexchange device responsive to the heat transferred 'between the gas and an element of the transducer. One or more such elements of the transducer may be formed by resistive arms of a Wheatstone bridge circuit, which arms may be formed by winding a wire around a tube along which the gas flows or formed by the walls of the tube itself, Fig. 2 (not shown). The control element may be heated by an electric current passed through the tube walls as disclosed in the Parent, or the current may be passed through an electrical conductor in thermal contact with the control element, e.g. an electric resistance wire wound around the element. Both the output signal current and the flow controlling heating current may be passed through the tube walls or through the conductor, one of the currents being a.c. and the other d.c. The control element can be immersed in an inert gas, Fig. 1 (not shown). The element may be a tube made of platinum, nichrome, stainless steel; glass, ceramics or P.T.F.E., or a tube filled with powder formed, e.g., from particles of glass, ceramics plastics or carbon, or filled with glass beads, graphite fibres, wire wool, fritted glass, or sintered metal. Alternatively, it may comprise a plurality of tubes arranged as disclosed in the parent, or it may comprise a block of porous material, e.g. sintered metal, bonded glass frit, porous carbon or graphite or a rod of porous pottery material, the cylindrical surface of the rod or some of the faces of the block being covered or coated to an impervious state. The control element may be used to control the flow of carrier gas in gas chromatography apparatus. Such apparatus may be arranged to automatically monitor atmospheric pollution over extended time periods in which case the control element can be associated with an additional length of tube, e.g. a capillary tube, in the carrier gas supply or in the column, and a small heating current is applied to the additional tube to reduce the flow rate of the carrier gas during those periods when no analysis is being made.
Patent GB-567761-A (GB)
Title: Road traffic control systems
IPC: G08G1/08
Filed: 1943-06-25
Abstract: 567,761. Road-traffic signals. SIEMENS & GENERAL ELECTRIC RAILWAY SIGNAL CO., Ltd., and RIDDLE, H. J. N. June 25, 1943, No. 10302. [Class 118 (ii)] In a controller for a road traffic signalling system there is provided a switching arrangement comprising sets of horizontal conductors 53 and sets of vertical conductors 54 spaced therefrom behind panels 52 but which may be bridged thereto at any desired point by removable plugs 55 engaging apertures therein. There are at least as many sets as there are phases in the traffic to be controlled and further sets are provided for special requirements, e.g. for giving a signal or alarm if a fault develops. Each set is similar in construction but operates different relays, &., that shown in Fig. 1A having thirty vertical conductors and six horizontal conductors, the lower two of which are connected to the amber and red lamp contacter relays of the phase A from which right of way is to be taken, whilst the upper four are connected to the ambers and greens of the phases Band C to which right of way is to be given. A cylinder 33 having thirty contacts 34 arranged helically on its surface is arranged to be raised periodically so that one of its contacts 34 engages a contact 40 on one of the vertical conductors 54 and to be rotated intermittently so that the contacts 34 engage the conductors 54 at one second intervals. The cylinder is journalled in a U-shaped frame 36 pivoted at 38 and having an armature 46 secured to its central portion, the armature co-operating with a fixed electromagnet 37 so that when the latter is energized the frame 36 is rocked counterclockwise to bring the cylinder into contacting position and a ratchet 40 on the cylinder shaft into a position wherein it is operatively engaged by a driving pawl 29. When the cylinder is raised, reverse movement of the ratchet is prevented by a pawl 49. Driving pawl 29 is constantly rocked through a bell crank lever 26 rocked about its pivot 27 by a rod 19 reciprocated vertically from an induction disc motor 7, the pawl making one complete stroke per second. The shaft of the cylinder also carries a small drum 41 to which is secured one end of a steel band 42 which passes round the drum and is secured at its other end to a stiff spring 43. When the electro-magnet 37 is de-energized the U-shaped frame swings clockwise under the weight of the cylinder, moving the latter out of the position in which its contacts engage the conductors 54 and removing the ratchet 40 from the control of the holding pawl 49 so that the spring 43 rotates the cylinder clockwise to return it to the position wherein, on the cylinder being raised, the first contact thereon contacts the first vertical conductor. Specification 567,762 is referred to.
Patent GB-1383364-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for bending elongated objects
IPC: B21D7/025
Filed: 1972-03-06
Abstract: 1383364 Bending tubes COJAFEX NV 6 March 1972 [5 March 1971] 10303/72 Heading B5A [Also in Divisions B3 and C1] The cross-section of a plastics tube or other elongated member is controlled during bending by heating a narrow transverse zone of the tube while applying a bending moment, the zone lying at least in part in plane which does not pass through the centre of curvature of the arc into which the member is to be bent. Fig. 4, shows a tube being bent by an arm (not shown), pivoting about axis 1, the heated zone being inclined to the plane 4 transverse to the tube and passing through axis 1, so that the heated zone is downstream of plane 4 on the inside of the bend at 2e, and upstream on the outside of the bend at 2d. The tube may be cooled downstream of the heater, which may be adjustable. It is stated that displacement of the tube wall during bending may be compensated for or even over-compensated. The heated zone may be parallel to plane 4, but upstream (Fig. 2), or downstream (Fig. 3), of it, or may be in part in plane 4 and in part inclined to it (Fig. 5). The position of the heater may be adjustable, and may be adjusted automatically in response to the sensed ovality of the tube. Heating may be effected by induction heating or other radiation, or convection.
Patent GB-831154-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in apparatus for the treatment of tea leaf
IPC: A23F3/12
Filed: 1957-03-29
Abstract: 831,154. Tea rolling. SAYAMA TEA ESTATES Ltd., and WORTHINGTON, W. R. March 25, 1958 [March 29, 1957], No. 10304/57. Class 129. Tea leaf is treated in apparatus comprising means close to a large diameter roller to provide a nip for tea leaf carried between them as the roller is rotated, the means or the roller or both being vibrated. As shown, the leaf is nipped between two cylindrical metallic rollers 1, 2 of substantially the same diameter mounted on substantially parallel shafts carried in pairs of bearings 3, 4. Bearings 4 are secured to a frame member and bearings 3 are adjustably secured to a frame member 7 to allow adjustment of gap 8. The rollers are driven at substantially the same speed in the directions of arrows B, C. Frame member 7 is vibrated in a horizontal plane perpendicular to shaft 5, e.g. by an eccentric 9 joined to the frame member by an arm 10. Tea leaf is loaded into a hopper 11 which deposits it on a conveyer 12 which feeds it between rollers 1, 2 after which it falls into a receptacle or on to a conveyer. Scrapers 13 remove any tea leaf clinging to the rollers. In a modification, Fig. 2 (not shown), roller 1 is replaced by an anvil vibrated by an eccentric and having a recess which fits the outside of roller 2.
Patent GB-565909-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in doors for poultry houses and the like
IPC: A01K31/02
Filed: 1943-06-25
Abstract: 565,909. Poultry and like houses. ILLINGWORTH, H. A. June 25, 1943, No. 10325. [Class 5 (ii)] The alighting board g is pivoted in the entrance and extended within the house, the extension being hollow and fitted with slidable balls k, whereby excessive weight as of a dog or fox on the board g produces tilting and closure of the opening. The board is provided with a hinge e adjustably bolted to a bracket d, one arm of which serves for a stop for the sloped part m of the ball-run. The counterbalancing effect may be reduced by pins lodged in one of the holes k' preventing the balls from running to the end. Side walls o and a top bar p restrict access to the entrance. The edges i, n are curled to form perches.
Patent GB-117260-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Building Bricks or Slabs and to Structures Formed therefrom.
Inventor: QUILLET EDMOND
IPC: E04B2/02
Filed: 1918-06-22
Abstract: 117,260. Quillet, E. June 23, 1917, [Convention date]. Sea and retaining walls.-Cement or concrete building-blocks for quay walls and structures generally, are formed with through holes b enlarged at the ends to receive solid or tubular dowels x, and with tongues and grooves e, f. The dowels may be made of cement or iron. Figs. 1, 3. 5, 7 show four examples of such blocks. The air spaces g extend through the whole height of a. wall, and metal bars may be embedded in cement in the holes b and tubular dowels x; the spaces between adjacent blocks may be filled with cement. Bars may be embedded in the bed joints. Corner blocks are similarly constructed. Fig. 39 shows a quay wall having the base, body, and top course formed of blocks with three, one, and two spaces respectively. Drainage is effected through blocks a<5>. Slopes or inclines may be faced with the solid or hollow blocks with reinforcements in the joints.
Patent GB-693426-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to devices for feeding tapes
IPC: G03D13/00
Filed: 1949-04-19
Abstract: 693,426. Photographic contact-printing and developing apparatus. PHILIPS ELECTRICAL, Ltd. April 19, 1949 [April 20, 1948], No. 10350/49. Class 98 (ii). [Also in Group XVI] In apparatus for feeding tapes 1 of limited elasticity, e.g. photographic films of regenerated cellulose having a thickness of the order of tens of microns, through a treatment apparatus 4, and comprising a feed-roller 6 and a draw-off roller 7 having substantially equal peripheral speeds, means are provided operated by the variation of a loop 13 in the tape to stretch the tape varying amounts by controlling the tension of the tape and thus maintain constant the length of tape between the rollers 6, 7. As shown in Fig. 1, a film 1 is fed under constant tension from a reel 5, between felt pads 15, 16 constituting the tension control-device, over the roller 6 in contact with a negative film 9 to be copied on the film 1 by exposure to a light source 11, and through a developing and drying- apparatus 4 to the draw-off roller 7. Between the roller 6 and the apparatus 4, a floating roller 14d engages a loop 13 in the film and is carried by a lever 14b supported by one spring 14c and connected by another spring 14c to a lever 14a carrying the upper pad 16. Variation of the loop length due to a slight difference in the peripheral speeds of the rollers 6, 7 or to variations in the film length caused by the treatment in the apparatus 4, alters the friction force at 15, 16 to restore the loop to its original length; thus the film length between the rollers 6, 7 is maintained constant, and the film after leaving the apparatus 4 is immediately ready for projection if required. The pads 15. 16 may act on the film between the rollers 6, 7, i.e. adjacent to the roller 7 or between two of the guide rollers 2 of the apparatus 4, in which case increase of loop length causes decrease of the friction force exerted by the pads 15, 16 and vice versa, in contrast to the arrangement shown in Fig. 1, where the reverse takes place. According to the Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91, the movements of the lever 14b may control the pressure of a leafspring on the periphery of one of the rollers 2, the roller being in the form of a hollow cylinder freely mounted on a driven spindle. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.