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Patent GB-2133909-A (GB)
Title: A control circuit for a microcomputer
Inventor: KRUGER TILMANN
IPC: G06F11/14
Filed: 1984-01-12
Abstract: In an operating-voltage-dependent control circuit(s) for a microcomputer (MC) a reset circuit (RS) is provided which resets and starts the microprocessor of the microcomputer. On the one hand, long mainsfailure bridging times for the microprocessor and the working store of the microcomputer are desirable but, on the other hand, superfluous re- loadings of the working store are not. A bistable storage circuit (FF) is provided which changes over, in the event of an operating voltage which is too low for the operation of the working store, into its first switching state. In this switching state, upon occurrence of a reset signal of the reset circuit (RS) an initialisation (re-loading) signal for the working store is obtained. The second switching state of the storage circuit is switched after the start of the microprocessor. If the operating voltage does not fall to a value which endangers data safety in the store, on a following rise in operating voltage the microprocessor is reset and started without initialisation of the store. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2136782-A (GB)
Title: Pilferproof closure
Inventor: HERBERT JAMES FREDERICK
IPC: B65D41/34
Filed: 1984-03-20
Abstract: A pilferproof closure made from malleable metal having a top and a depending skirt has a circumferentially extending slit 13 interrupted by frangible bridges 14 to form a retaining band 15 below the slit. The retaining band has cut on its inner surface a circumferentially extending score line 16 and/or a set of axial score lines 17 extending from the free edge of band towards the slit for making it more difficult to tamper with the closure without leaving visible sign of the tampering. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2137323-A (GB)
Title: Self-loading pistol type firearm with slide breech block insert
Inventor: SMITH DAVID EDWARD
IPC: F41A15/14
Filed: 1984-03-22
Abstract: In a firearm of the self-loading pistol type having a reciprocating breech block slide (B) with a detachable breech block insert (F) holding a cartridge extractor (M) and a firing pin (S), the insert (F) is held in position in the slide (B) by means of the rear sight (N) of the firearm. The rear sight is of bifurcated construction, the two limbs locating in respective vertical slots in the sides of the insert (F) and the top in a transverse slot in the slide (B). One limb of the bifurcation may contain screw means (PP) for adjusting the height of the rear sight, such adjusting means thereby being protected against damage and dirt. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2169756-A (GB)
Title: Adaptor for miniature fluorescent lamp
Inventor: SILVER DAVID SELWYN
IPC: H01R33/94
Filed: 1984-06-11
Abstract: An electrical socket adapter for a compact fluorescent lamp assembly comprises a housing (25), a connector (26) projecting from the housing for coupling the adapter with an electrical socket, an adapter socket connected electrically to the connector (26) and arranged to receive the connector (27) of a lamp (18), and a ballast (28) which interconnects the connector (26) and the adapter socket for providing a stabilised voltage supply for the lamp. The ballast (28) and the adapter socket are mounted within the housing (25), and the ballast defines a mounting recess (29) which receives the adapter socket. There is a uniform weight distribution of the ballast about a central axis of the adapter socket. In an alternative configuration, the connector (26) may be mounted in the ballast recess (29), and the socket at the other end of the adaptor. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2160716-A (GB)
Title: Electrical pin
Inventor: BATES ARTHUR
IPC: H01R13/44
Filed: 1984-06-20
Abstract: An electrical pin for an electrical plug includes a contact portion 14 for engagement in use with a contact element of a socket, a connector portion for connection to a cable and an intermediate portion 18 effecting electrical connection between the contact and connector portions. The axis of the intermediate portion is offset from the axis of the pin and the intermediate portion is surround by an electrically insulating sleeve 19. A projection 22 on the sleeve engages in a recess 21 in the contact portion to prevent relative angular movement between the sleeve and the contact portion, the surfaces of the contact portion 14 and sleeve 19 being continuous. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2162306-A (GB)
Title: Domestic fireplace
Inventor: NEWMAN F G
IPC: F24B1/183
Filed: 1984-07-19
Abstract: An improved domestic fireplace having a high rate of transfer of heat from the burning fuel and combustion gases to the water incorporates a water boiler 5,10,12 which extends in a continuous manner behind the grate 19 to the sides of the grate and beneath the grate, so as thereby largely to define the grate 19. The part of the water boiler 12 which extends beneath the grate 19 is either completely continuous or so little interrupted (Fig. 1) that only a minor proportion of the air supply to the grate can pass through it. For example, 75% or 90% or more of the air supply to the grate may come from above the grate bottom. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2147463-A (GB)
Title: Cable clamp
Inventor: JENSEN NIELS DUE
IPC: H01R13/58
Filed: 1984-09-18
Abstract: A cable clamp for electric lines or cables for instance in a plug is formed by a slider (1) with grooved surface portions (1a, 1b), said slider being insertable along a channel (4) with substantially corresponding grooved surface portions (4a, 4b) so as to engage said channel. The grooved surface portions (4a, 4b) of the channel may be laterally reversed relative to the grooved surface portions (1a, 1b) of the slider (1). The channel (4) is preferably open-topped to provide removal of the slider in a direction transverse to its insertion direction. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2169891-A (GB)
Title: Controlling currents in glass melter
Inventor: KRUMWIEDE JOHN FRANKLIN
IPC: C03B5/193
Filed: 1985-01-18
Abstract: A method of melting glass comprising feeding a layer of glass batch materials onto a pool of molten glass at an upstream end of a furnace (13), withdrawing molten glass at a downstream end of the furnace (15), providing heat to the furnace above the pool of molten glass so as to melt the glass, whereby a "spring zone" of rising glass currents (16) is established in the pool between the downstream end of the batch layer and the downstream end of the furnace and, on the upstream side of said zone, injecting gas into the molten glass at a plurality of locations (20,21) extending transversely across the furnace so as to enhance the rising glass currents. The rate of gas injection can be greater near a side wall of the furnace than in the centre immediately upstream of the spring zone so as to direct side portions of the throughput stream into the spring zone. The rising currents of the spring zone can be enhanced by bubbling a stream entering the spring zone at a first elevation (20) and then bubbling the same stream at a higher elevation (21). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2174801-A (GB)
Title: Determination of gasborne fibres
Inventor: JOHNSTON ARTHUR MCCONNELL
IPC: G01N15/06
Filed: 1985-05-10
Abstract: An apparatus for determining gasborne fibre concentration has a heating zone (1) for a sample of gas containing dust. A laser beam (9) heats each dust particle before the gas sample enters a transport zone (4) having two infra-red radiation detectors (6, 7). The signals from the detectors are compared at 10 to detect the loss of temperature associated with the larger surface area of a fibre compared to a normal dust particle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2159230-A (GB)
Title: T-connector for a crossbar junction in a facade
Inventor: OBERROHRMANN AUGUST
IPC: E04B2/96
Filed: 1985-05-23
Abstract: To connect a crossbar member (2) to an upright member (1) of a facade, a main body (6) is fixed in a chamber inside the crossbar member by means of screws (30). Non-rotatable flanged pins (9) are mounted in the main body (6) slidably under the force of springs (15). When fitting the crossbar member, the flanged pins (9) are pressed into the chamber within the crossbar member (2) and at the point of connection latch into bores provided in a side wall (22) of the upright member (1), to extend into the chamber (23) within the upright member. The flanged pins (9) are then anchored relative to the upright member by pins (24) which are driven through transverse bores in the flanged pins (9). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2163565-A (GB)
Title: Optical processing apparatus
Inventor: LAYCOCK LESLIE CHARLES
IPC: G06E3/00
Filed: 1985-07-24
Abstract: An optical processing apparatus is described capable of subtracting a first image (7) from a second image (9) where at least one of the images is varying with time. The apparatus includes means (3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15) for producing first and second light beams (B1', B2') from respective discrete regions of a programmable spatial light modulator (1), the beam B1' being spatially modulated with the negative of the first image (7), and the beam B2' being spatially modulated with the second image (9). The apparatus also includes means (19, 21, 23, 24, 25) for combining the beams B1', B2' to produce a third image corresponding to the fist image (7) subtracted from the second image (9). The use of two programmable spatial light modulators is thus avoided. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2164128-A (GB)
Title: Air admittance valves
Inventor: BOKOR SHAUN DAVID
IPC: E03C1/295
Filed: 1985-08-23
Abstract: An air admittance valve for connection with a stack pipe e.g. of a toilet system, and operable to admit air to the pipe in response to the occurrence of negative pressure within the pipe, comprises a valve body (10) defining a valve chamber (12) and a generally tubular part (14) which is connected with the stack pipe and which opens into the chamber (12). The tubular part (14) is spaced inwardly of a surrounding wall of the valve chamber (12) so as to provide therebetween an air inlet (21). A generally annular valve element (27) extends inwardly from the wall of the valve chamber (12) over the air inlet 21 and has an outer peripheral portion attached to the wall, an inner peripheral portion which normally rests on a valve seating (18) extending around the tubular part (14), and a flexible intermediate portion (33) which is formed by a bellows-like configuration in an elastomeric annulus so as to allow ready displacement of the inner peripheral portion with respect to the valve seating (18). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2174838-A (GB)
Title: Travelling wave tubes
Inventor: KING ROBIN CHARLES MOORHOUSE
IPC: H01J23/00
Filed: 1986-03-11
Abstract: A coupled cavity travelling wave tube has a coupling wall/ferro-magnetic pole piece formed as an iron-copper-iron sandwich 9, 11, 10 with a coolant channel 6 therein defined at least in part by the inner copper member 11 of the sandwich. Where the coolant channel is defined also in part by a surface of an outer ferromagnetic member, at least that surface is electroplated to protect it from corrosion by the coolant. As shown, the beam hole in the drift tube 4 may have a cylindrical copper liner 14. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2188246-A (GB)
Title: Fall arrest safety device for pole climbers
Inventor: GREENWAY WILLIAM ERNEST
IPC: A63B27/00
Filed: 1986-03-27
Abstract: A fall arrest device for a pole climber which has a main yoke (30) with resiliently biased arms (34) at each end for partly encompassing a pole. The resiliently biased arms (34) are movable in the same plane as the main yoke (30) and also urge the secondary yokes into contact with the pole to accommodate a range of pole diameters. Handles are attached to each arm (34) for gripping by the pole climber to move the arms (34) so that the fall arrest device can be raised or lowered, and each arm also has eyelets (43) for receiving safety straps attached to the pole climber. In a preferred embodiment the arms have sharp projections (48) for biting into the pole. A pull on the strap, due to slippage of the pole climber, causes the arms to move towards each other and the sharp projections (48) to bite tightly into the pole. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2176890-A (GB)
Title: Monoclonal antibodies for human non-small cell lung carcinomas
Inventor: HELLSTROM INGEGERD
IPC: G01N33/532
Filed: 1986-05-16
Abstract: The present invention is concerned with two novel monoclonal antibodies which define carbohydrate antigens associated with human non-small cell lung carcinomas («NSCLC») and certain other human carcinomas. The antibodies bind to normal human cells to a much lesser degree than to tumor cells. The antibodies find use in diagnostic methods such as the detection of malignant cells associated with NSCLC and in therapeutic methods. The invention also comprises a method for determining the presence of a malignant condition in the lung of a subject. The method involves examining tissue from the subject for the presence of antigens which are Le<sup>x</sup> or Le<sup>Y</sup> antigen or which have the characteristics of Le<sup>Y</sup> and Le<sup>x</sup>.
Patent GB-2176038-A (GB)
Title: Coin discriminator
Inventor: WINKLES BILLY B
IPC: G07D5/02
Filed: 1986-05-20
Abstract: An apparatus for discriminating between coins of different value by determining their sizes. The coin discriminator includes a two-dimensional, coin-measuring array of optical sensors arranged to establish predetermined coin-measuring boundaries, a channel for guiding coins past the coin-measuring array, and circuitry for determining when a coin has been guided by the channel to a trigger point where its diameter can be measured by the sensor array. When a coin approaches the trigger point, the circuitry activates the sensor array. Then, when the coin reaches the trigger point, the circuitry triggers a measurement circuit which identifies the size-and value-of the coin by sampling the activated sensor array to determine the furthest measurement boundary from the trigger point that is crossed by the coin. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2190753-A (GB)
Title: Measuring quartz crystal resonance frequency
Inventor: WILLIAMSON ROGER JAMES
IPC: G01R29/22
Filed: 1986-05-23
Abstract: For determining the resonant frequency of a quartz crystal blank (36) the crystal is driven by two beat frequencies derived by mixing (34) a low and a high frequency (f, F), one beat frequency being in resonance. The beat frequencies are then mixed (35) with the original high frequency (F) to recover the low frequency. At resonance the input and output low frequencies are in phase, e.g. as sensed by an amplifier or phase comparator (37). The technique obviates the need for tuning out of the shunt reactance of the crystal. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2183327-A (GB)
Title: Wall ventilator and cavity wall ventilation system
Inventor: GIBSON COLIN FREDERICK
IPC: F24F13/08
Filed: 1986-10-15
Abstract: The wall ventilator comprises a hollow ventilating member through which air can flow, and a plurality of baffles 8 disposed within the ventilating member and adapted to alter the direction of air flow through the ventilating member. The baffles are arranged to divide the air flow within the ventilating member into a plurality of ventilation paths, so that air cannot flow through the ventilating member without flowing through one of the ventilating paths. The baffles are provided with strengthening ribs 13 extending substantially transverse thereto. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2183880-A (GB)
Title: Speech translator for the deaf
Inventor: MONTGOMERY BILLY A
IPC: G10L15/26
Filed: 1986-11-19
Abstract: A speech translator has a phoneme recogniser for detecting phonemes and a display for displaying them. An interface communicates between the recogniser and a telephone line. The phonemes recogniser may be provided in the user's home. Alternatively a plurality of phoneme recognisers may be provided in a central telephone office or in the office of an independent service provider. The user may be provided with a keypad, for reply, coupled to a pre-recorded announcement module and a text-to-speech module. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2202808-A (GB)
Title: Tipping goods vehicle with adjustable bogie
Inventor: GOODWINS JOHN
IPC: B62D53/06
Filed: 1987-03-26
Abstract: A tipping semi-trailer or trailer goods vehicle is provided in which a sliding bogie can be moved between a running position projecting to the rear of the vehicle chassis and a discharge position under the vehicle chassis with the vehicle fully laden and using the available tractive effort of an associated tractor vehicle. The vehicle has a chassis (10), a tipping frame (12) pivoted to the chassis (10) and a ram (14) connected between the chassis (10) and the tipping frame (14). The rear end of the chassis (10) is supported on a bogie (16) connected to the chassis (10) by means defining a linear bearing by which the bogie (16) can move between the running position (Figure 2) and the discharge position (Figure 1). The linear bearing includes rollers so that movement of the bogie (16) in a vehicle having a filled body can occur at relatively low traction of an associated tractor vehicle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2208062-A (GB)
Title: Hanger
Inventor: WILKES MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: B65D33/14
Filed: 1987-03-28
Abstract: A hanger for suspending a bag (5) on a rail (2) is formed of resiliently deformable plastics material and comprises an elongated support portion (4) permanently attached to the bag. A further portion (3) projects from the support portion to define therewith an elongated opening (13) and a gap (8) through which the rail can enter the opening when the hanger is temporarily deformed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2199336-A (GB)
Title: Electro-rheological fluids
Inventor: BYATT DENNIS WILLIAM GEORGE
IPC: C10M171/00
Filed: 1987-05-15
Abstract: An electro-rheological fluid comprises liquid crystal material (e.g. type E7) which may have suspended therein a quantity of dry microscopic glass bubbles of which the majority have diameters between 20 and 120 microns and wall thicknesses of between 0.5 and 2 microns.
Patent GB-2196317-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for securing strips to sheet material
Inventor: ROWLANDS DAVID ARTHUR
IPC: B65H35/00
Filed: 1987-09-28
Abstract: The invention provides apparatus for, and a method of, applying lead alloy strip 5, Fig. 1, initially provided with a backing tape 6, to a pane of window glass 35, Fig. 4. The apparatus may be held manually by a handle 1, or a modified form thereof 49 may be slideably mounted on a batten 38 that can be secured in a plurality of positions in register with a template behind the pane of glass 35 at one side of an A-frame 34. A reel 20 of the strip 5 is rotatably arranged on a mounting plate 3 of the apparatus and the strip is passed between rollers 7 and 8 of a roller assembly 4 where the backing tape 6 is parted from the strip 5 and is wound onto a re-wind drum 9. The adhesive strip 5 is entered between rollers 10 and 11, the roller 10 being employable to press the adhesive strip 5 against the window glass 35. A plurality of different roller assemblies 4 are provided of which one assembly 4 may be chosen and arranged on the mounting plate 3 to match different widths of the strip 5 that are supplied on corresponding reels 20. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2197326-A (GB)
Title: Adhesive compositions
Inventor: O'SULLIVAN DAVID FRANCIS
IPC: C08F8/12
Filed: 1987-10-23
Abstract: An adhesive composition applicable in melt form to surfaces to be bonded comprises   (a) a silane-grafted ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, the ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer precursor having a vinyl acetate content of from 18 to 40% and a melt flow index of 20 to 150, preferably 35 to 55, (b) a catalyst for the condensation of said silane-grafted ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, and, optionally, (c) a plasticizer. The adhesive composition is particularly suitable for use in product assembly.   Components (a) and (b) may be packed in separate containers.
Patent GB-2212444-A (GB)
Title: Desk diary/calendar
Inventor: RIDER DAVID FRANCIS
IPC: B42D5/04
Filed: 1987-11-21
Abstract: A self-standing desk diary which also provides the user with calendar information. There is room for promotional data to be displayed at all times and coloured pictures make the diary an attractive article to be placed on a desk. The user has sufficient space for making notes as well as recording details of appointments. This is the basic concept which would be adapted using coloured lines for better detail; showing the month in various languages, etc <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2199734-A (GB)
Title: Dishwasher with rotary spray arm having means for selectively altering spray direction
Inventor: MERET GIOSUE
IPC: A47L15/23
Filed: 1987-11-30
Abstract: A dishwasher comprising wash chamber 5, baskets, 6, 7 for supporting articles to be washed, and rotary spray arms 9, 11 for spraying wash liquid at the articles is characterised in that rotary spray arm 11 is provided with a manually adjustable, apertured slider 23 whereby jets of wash liquid may be selectively directed upwardly through apertures 12 or downwardly through apertures 22. In a modification, the rotary spray arm 11 is only provided with apertures 12, a removable plug opposite supply pipe 15 and is mounted in such a way that, after removal of the plug, it can be inverted and re-mounted, so that, in use, jets of wash liquid may be directed downwardly instead of upwardly. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2198788-A (GB)
Title: Rotating and alternating piston machine
Inventor: WRYSCH ISO
IPC: F02B75/28
Filed: 1987-04-03
Abstract: The rotating and alternating piston machine is an alternating or free piston machine in which the pistons effect a rotating and alternating movement. Main characteristics: 1) the use of rotation or alternation/rotation, for example in order to control the ports provided in the cylinder walls of two- and four-stroke engines, pumps and compressors; 2) simple conversion of rotating and alternating movement by mechanical or electrical means. The rotating and alternating piston machine offers the possibility of: pumps, including the electric drive, in which there is only one rotating part; direct conversion of the alternating movement of the piston into electrical energy; control of the gas movement by the piston; operation of other ports having specific functions (for example, introducing additional compressed gas, discharge ports operating in succession etc.); free selection of the number of piston strokes per rotation; choice of piston stroke kinematics; powerful rotation or swirling of charge; easily designed compact and inexpensive machines; possible integration of a compressor without having to provide for an additional volume and virtually without any weight increase. In the two-stroke combustion engine, in which the gas exchange is controlled by the pistons (2 and 5), the useful power is available at the central shaft (14), which carries the rotating and alternating piston (2) in a longitudinally-slidable but rotationally-fixed manner. Movement is converted by the oscillating shaft (35) and transmission element (38). The engine is provided with four working chambers and has a 100% mass balance.
Patent GB-2219885-A (GB)
Title: A device for a guitar
Inventor: SHELTON JOHN
IPC: G10D3/14
Filed: 1988-05-21
Abstract: A device for increasing the tension on a guitar string 4 to increase the pitch of the string 4 includes a control link 16 for mounting within the guitar body 1 by a spring biassed mounting 23 to extend generally in the direction from the guitar neck 2 to the guitar bridge 5. One end of the link 16 is connected to a string tension member 19 for applying a tension load to the string 4 and the other end is connected to an operating lever arm 8 adapted for connection to a guitar strap. The lever arm 8 is pivotal by a force applied by a performer to the strap to displace the control link 16 against the spring bias and apply a tensile load to the string 4 through the tension member 19 to increase the pitch of the string 4, the control link 16 returning under the spring bias on release of the applied force so that the string 4 reverts to the original pitch. The control link may be a rod or a cable. The tension member may act directly on the string as shown, or may act indirectly on the string by moving the bridge. <IMAGE>