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Patent GB-2098561-A (GB)
Title: Ship's propulsion means
IPC: F16C1/02
Filed: 1982-05-11
Abstract: In ships' propulsion means, if an auxiliary mechanism is connected to the propeller shaft between the propeller and the gearbox, longitudinal space is wasted. If, however, said shaft is extended through the gearbox to enable said mechanism to be connected to its forward end to avoid said waste, it has been impracticable to mount the gearbox flexibly on the hull to reduce vibration and noise. This problem is solved by providing the gearbox with a tubular output shaft 24 surrounding with clearance a forward zone of the propeller shaft extension 13 and connecting said output shaft to the propeller shaft by means of a tubular flexible coupling assembly 29, 30, 34, 35, 36, 37 surrounding with clearance an aft zone of said extension, said assembly being surrounded with clearance by a sleeve 17 connected to the propeller shaft and carrying a thrust bearing 21. The propeller shaft, extension and sleeve are journalled in bearings rigidly mounted on the hull, but the arrangement enables the gearbox including its output shaft to be unrestrictedly flexibly mounted thereon. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2103800-A (GB)
Title: Measuring instrument
Inventor: HARRIS WILLIAM ROBERT OWEN
IPC: G01B11/08
Filed: 1982-07-30
Abstract: A measuring instrument (10) for determining the diameter of a cylindrical object (15) comprises a pair of arms (12) having a predetermined, possibly adjustable, included angle (2 phi ) therebetween and which contact the object (15) tangentially. A probe (13) which is movable relative to the arms (12) along the bisector of the angle (2 phi ) contacts the object (15) and the distance between the end (18) of the probe (13) in contact with the object (15) and the apex (17) of the angle (2 phi ) between the arms (12) is determined by a scale or by means of a transducer (14) which produces an electrical signal to be fed to a digital readout or to a calculator for determining the radius of the object (15) directly. In an alternative embodiment the arms (12) and probe (13) are replaced by light beams which touch the surface of the object tangentially at the cut-off limit. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2109582-A (GB)
Title: Optical projectors
Inventor: BALLS COLIN
IPC: G03B23/18
Filed: 1982-09-20
Abstract: A slide projector consisting of a chassis having two optical slide projection assemblies mounted therein, an adjustment mechanism for adjusting the alignment of the two assemblies relatively to one another in both a vertical and a horizontal plane.
Patent GB-2108572-A (GB)
Title: Hand restraining band clamp
Inventor: SMITH REGINALD A G
IPC: E05B75/00
Filed: 1982-10-04
Abstract: A hand restraining band clamp strap 1 and a head 2 through which the shank may be passed to form a loop to receive the wrists of a person to be restrained. An end piece 3 forms an abutment for the hand of the person applying the restraint and may be fitted after passing strap 1 through head 2. A pawl 12, held loosely within the head 2, permits the strap to pass freely in the tightening direction and allows some relaxation from the fully tightened position while it is carried by movement of the strap to the position of Fig. 9, where it is detained by stop 15. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2134318-A (GB)
Title: Magnetrons
Inventor: PICKERING ALAN HUGH
IPC: H01P5/08
Filed: 1983-01-22
Abstract: The RF energy from a magnetron's anode resonant circuits is coupled out to a rectangular waveguide 21, excited in the TE11 mode, by a rod 2a of high dielectric constant, low RF loss, material clad, except at its ends, with a conductive coating and sealingly mounted through the magnetron's vacuum envelope, the envelope- internal end face of the rod being positioned adjacent to, and possibly touching, an end face of the anode, with a part of the rod end face aligned with one of the anode cavities. Rod 20 may be of alumina, magnesia, or beryllia, and may be brazed to the pale piece 12b through which it extends. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2114422-A (GB)
Title: Directly cookable frozen-batter product
Inventor: LUNDQUIST BURTON RUSSELL
IPC: A23L15/00
Filed: 1983-02-01
Abstract: A process for preparing a batter product, containing at least eggs, which can be cooked directly from a frozen state in either a conduction heating device or a radiation heating device comprises the essential step of freezing the batter product into a shape having a thickness within a range of 6 to 15 mm. This permits the batter product to be thawed, coalesced and cooked to the desired consistency without loss of shape or objectionable "doneness" variation in the finished product. In an additional step particularly adapted to cooking the batter product of a specified thickness in a microwave oven, the peripheral regions of the batter product are radiation shielded to prevent a premature thawing and accompanying overcooking of those regions.
Patent GB-2121677-A (GB)
Title: Pulley assemblies for cording systems on curtain suspensions
Inventor: WILSON GRAHAM CHARLES
IPC: A47H11/06
Filed: 1983-03-09
Abstract: A pulley assembly for a cording system for use in a cornice pole assembly, the pulley assembly including a pulley 12 and pulley holder 13 arranged to fit into the hollow end of a cornice pole, the pulley holder 13 having an element 15 to engage a web 11 in the pole to secure and locate it in position, the pulley 12 being retained in the pulley holder 13 when the pulley holder is itself retained in the pole assembly. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2121610-A (GB)
Title: Broadband microstrip antennas
Inventor: BHARTIA PRAKASH
IPC: H01Q9/04
Filed: 1983-05-05
Abstract: A microstrip antenna is disclosed consisting of a flat metallic patch 10 spaced from the ground plane 11. To increase the bandwidth of the antenna a pair of varactor diodes 15, 16 are provided positioned at opposite sides of the patch and connected between it and the ground plane. The antenna is fed by a coaxial cable connected to the point 14. The patch may be circular. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2123292-A (GB)
Title: Topical corticoid-containing preparations
Inventor: ZIMMERMANN INGFRIED
IPC: A61K9/10
Filed: 1983-07-07
Abstract: Topical preparations comprising 0.005 to 2% by weight of an anti- inflammatorily active corticoid are formulated as a finely dispersed mixture of an oil/water emulsion and a water/oil emulsion. The preparations are stable even when substantially diluted.
Patent GB-2129169-A (GB)
Title: Thermal storage systems using liquid as a thermal store
Inventor: HARLAND PETER GEOFFREY
IPC: F24D19/10
Filed: 1983-08-26
Abstract: In a thermal storage or liquid heating system utilising a main heater or heaters 13, 14 at the bottom of a tank 10 energised from an off-peak power supply controlled by a logic unit 20 and switch 22 under the control of a temperature sensor 16, there are provided auxiliary heating means 25 with a 24-hour power supply 26 controlled by a temperature sensor 35 with a presettable control amplifier 36. The logic unit 20 ensures that the auxiliary supply is energised only outside off-peak periods when the return water temperature is below a predetermined value, when the tank top temperature is below a predetermined value and when a room temperature sensor calls for heat. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2127853-A (GB)
Title: Selective plating
Inventor: RICHARDS MICHAEL ARTHUR
IPC: C25D5/02
Filed: 1983-09-30
Abstract: A method of selective plating a component (1), which method comprises contacting upper and lower faces of the component (1) with upper and lower masks, respectively, so that the lower mask exposes a part of the component to be plated, positioning the component (1) over a plating tank and selective plating the component with a plating medium (18), the plating pressure and the hardness of the material comprising the upper mask (16) being such that the upper mask (16) is deformed during plating so as at least partially to mask the edge(s) of the said exposed part.
Patent GB-2159633-A (GB)
Title: A box, especially for an electric meter or the like
Inventor: BOURRIERES PIERRE
IPC: G01R11/24
Filed: 1984-06-01
Abstract: A box for protecting an electric meter or similar apparatus against fraud, theft and the like comprises a hollow body (1) provided with an aperture (2) and a cover (3) adapted to close the aperture (2) of the body (1). The cover (3) carries a locking mechanism (29) operable by a key (33) and provided with a locking member (34) rotatable with respect to cover (3) between a locked position in which the member (34) engages retainers (37) of the body (1) and a release position. The locking mechanism (31) allows removal of the key (33) when the locking member (34) is in the locked position and unremovably retains the key (33) when the locking member (34) is in the release position. The box comprises spring loaded bolt means (43) for irreversibly maintaining the locking member (34) in the locked position when the locking member (34) and the retainers (37) are mutually engaged. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2160511-A (GB)
Title: Machine for making paper booklets
Inventor: JONES STANLEY GERNARD
IPC: B65H45/24
Filed: 1984-06-20
Abstract: Apparatus is provided in which booklets of interleaved cigarette papers can be made from continuously moving strands of strip paper in which a cutting knife used to sever the paper strips precisely follows movement of the strip. Movement of a driven input shaft (51) is brought onto the moving platform (25) and used to operate the cutting knife (29). Paper from bobbins (10, 11) is converged by formers (15,17,18) and a spreader (16) into a strand advanced by nip rolls (21,22) through cutting station (25). The knife (29) in the station cuts a booklet from the strand while the station (25) moves with the strand. A driven rotatory shaft (76) of non-circular section transmits its rotation to sleeve (81) that slides therealong so the station (25) reciprocates relative to shaft (76). The sleeve (81) is operably connected e.g. by gearing or by a cam and follower to the knife (29) so that rotation thereof brings about the cutting movement.
Patent GB-2146232-A (GB)
Title: A cup
Inventor: NIHLEN TORD
IPC: A47G19/22
Filed: 1984-08-31
Abstract: To minimize or neutralize the negative effects of electrostatic attraction of powder, e.g. powder which with liquid added will produce a cup-full of a beverage, to the underside of a cup 10 when it is stacked inside a lower cup holding a portion of powder, external protrusions 18 are provided on the base of said cup. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2160116-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for the distillation of fresh water from sea water
Inventor: NASSER GAMAL EL DIN
IPC: B01D1/26
Filed: 1983-04-25
Abstract: Process and apparatus for the distillation of fresh water from sea water by a combined film, vertical tube evaporation (VTE) and multiple stage flash (MSF) evaporation in a multiple stage process, in which after passing through a first VTE process stage and prior to entering the following VTE process stage, the salt water is distributed to form a seal between the VTE process stages. The fresh water distillate from a VTE process stage undergoes flash evaporation in at least one MSF process stage for each VTE process stage. The fresh water distillate and brine residue in each case pass together through all the following VTE and MSF process stages in such a way that the brine residue can be removed from the final VTE process stage and the fresh water distillate from the final MSF process stage. The steam used for heating the sea water is successively condensed and passed through all the evaporation stages, starting with the first VTE process stage. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2151942-A (GB)
Title: Plasmapheresis apparatus
Inventor: ANTWILER GLEN DELBERT
IPC: B01D65/08
Filed: 1985-02-25
Abstract: A device 20 for separating a liquid filtrate free of particles larger than a predetermined size from a liquid mixture of said particles such as blood, said device 20 comprising housing means having a particle mixture inlet port 22, a particle mixture outlet port 26, and a filtrate outlet port 28, a microporous membrane 112 mounted within said housing means to define a particle mixture flow channel B, said channel B communicating with said port 22 and said port 26, and means 122 to define a filtrate channel P with said membrane 112 on the opposite side of said membrane 112 from said channel B and to provide flow restriction in said channel P to cause a pressure drop along the filtrate flow path, to thereby passively vary the changes in transmembrane pressure along said membrane 112. The means 122 may comprise elongated V-shaped grooves in support plates 110. Flow restriction may be produced by making the V-grooves shallower at the upstream end, by replacing the V-grooves by surface roughness or by placing flow obstructors, such as cloth or fibrous material between the membranes 112 and the plates 110. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2177051-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle with on-road and off-read suspension settings
Inventor: BOULTON FREDERICK WILLIAM
IPC: B60G17/052
Filed: 1985-07-04
Abstract: A dual purpose vehicle has suspension selectively adjustable to provide either a high ground clearance for use off road or a lower ground clearance for use on road. This can allow the vehicle to function off road in the manner intended, while allowing improved fuel consumption on road as compared to prior dual purpose vehicles.
Patent GB-2161708-A (GB)
Title: Blood vessel clamp
Inventor: WILLIAMS TIMOTHY GABE
IPC: A61M5/168
Filed: 1985-07-05
Abstract: A clamp for occluding a blood vessel 60 or for securing a catheter in a blood vessel (Figure 5, not shown) comprises a tubular sheath 20 or 200 onto the rear end of which is pushed an end cap 30 or 300. A flexible cord 51 or 510 is bonded at its rear end to the tubular sheath. In use, the cord 51 or 510 is wrapped around the blood vessel 60 and its forward end is pushed back along the sheath and out of the cap 30, 300. The pushed-out part of the cord is held in position by a plug 40, joined with the cap 30 or 300, which plug is pushed into the cap and against the cord. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2163150-A (GB)
Title: 3-Aminopropoxyaryl derivatives
Inventor: BERTHOLD RICHARD
IPC: C07D295/092
Filed: 1985-07-05
Abstract: The compounds of formula I where R is alkyl disubstituted by aromatic, heteroaromatic and/or cycloaliphatic groups and Ar, B and p have various significances, and physiologically acceptable hydrolyzable derivatives thereof having the hydroxy group in the 2 position of the propoxy side chain in esterified form are indicated for use as cardiotonic, antiarrhythmic, alpha - and  beta -adrenoceptor blocking and calcium antagonistic agents.
Patent GB-2161859-A (GB)
Title: Throttling pintle-type i.c. engine fuel injection nozzle
Inventor: SCHOPF HANS-JOACHIM
IPC: F02M61/16
Filed: 1985-07-17
Abstract: The longitudinal fuel bores (6a, 6b, 6c) which run through the nozzle body (7) and lead to a pressure chamber (12) have asymmetry such that fuel flowing into the pressure chamber (12) exerts forces on the injector valve (10), causing the valve to rotate and prevent carbon deposition in the nozzle outlet. The bores may differ in size, inclination relative to the nozzle axis or location relative to the nozzle axis. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2185366-A (GB)
Title: Multi-phase PSK demodulator
Inventor: ISANG CHUNG KWAN
IPC: H04L27/227
Filed: 1985-07-29
Abstract: A multi-phase PSK (phase shift key) demodulator is applied to recover binary encoded serial data from a continuous multiphase modulated signal source. This demodulator mainly comprises a carrier detector 17, hard limiters 11,14, a harmonic phase-locked clock regenerator 12, a digital multi-phase demodulator 15, a data clock divider 13 and a reference phase synchronizer 18. The digital multi-phase demodulator 15 receives the output of the harmonic phase-locked clock regenerator 12 and N-th phase rectangular wave PSK signal to produce demodulated binary encoded parallel data. Then the demodulated parallel data is converted into serial data via a parallel-to-serial converter 16. The reference phase synchronizer 18 can obtain a phase reference from a leader preamble or a continuous distributed sync word. Thus transmission is not required for phase resynchronization. The regeneration of the carrier-related clock signal and data demodulation are independent of data pattern if the input signal is preemphasized or conditioned. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2169695-A (GB)
Title: Gas turbine fuel delivery system
Inventor: EKSTED EDWARD ERNST
IPC: F02C7/22
Filed: 1985-12-09
Abstract: A fuel delivery system for the combustor 14 of a gas turbine engine comprises a combustor support pin 26, a fuel atomizer 22, and a tube 30 for delivering fuel to the atomizer. The combustor support pin provides axial support for the combustor and includes a duct 28 in which the fuel delivery tube is removably located. Fuel is delivered into an annular duct 36 by the tube via a circumferential groove 56 of progressively reducing depth. Swirl vanes 50 control air flow at the entry to the duct 36. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2172922-A (GB)
Title: Unit marine structure
Inventor: SUZUKI YOSHIO
IPC: E02D3/12
Filed: 1985-04-26
Abstract: In order to set a unit structure on a soft sea bed, it is necessary to reform the soft sea bed by injecting a cement-containing hardening agent thereinto and kneading the mixture of the hardening agent and the earth in the sea bed, for the purpose of preventing a building to be constructed on the unit structure from being displaced or deformed due to the load on the unit structure and the horizontal load. A unit structure is set on such a reformed sea bed, and used for the drilling of an experimental oil well and the production of oil at sea. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2169506-A (GB)
Title: Seat adjusting mechanism
Inventor: STEIFENSAND MARTIN
IPC: A47C3/026
Filed: 1986-01-02
Abstract: A seat adjusting mechanism for adjusting the angle of a chair seat comprises a seat support (3) pivotally attached to a lower support which, in turn, is attachable to a chair base. Locking elements are arranged between the seat support and the lower support to lock the seat support, and consequently the seat, in one of several discrete positions. The locking elements comprise a pivotable locking bar (18) movable between several vertically displaced projections (16, 17) to lock the seat in position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2174915-A (GB)
Title: A ball and the manufacture thereof
Inventor: MANNING MARGARET
IPC: A63B37/00
Filed: 1986-05-07
Abstract: A ball such as a cricket or a hockey ball is manufactured by mating curved cover sections (10, 12) with one another to form a hollow spherical cover about a preformed core (21). Bonding material (18, 20) in the space between the core and the cover serves when set to bond the cover sections to the core and to hold them in position about the core. The core may have projections to locate it centrally within the cover. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2175901-A (GB)
Title: Water soluble salt of monoxidil and its use in treating hair loss
Inventor: DI SCHIENA MICHELE G
IPC: A61Q7/00
Filed: 1986-05-22
Abstract: The novel water-soluble salt of 5-oxoproline with 6-piperidino-2,4-diaminopyrimidine-3- oxide of the formula:   <IMAGE> is employed in cosmetic and/or pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of loss of hair or in pathological forms such as alopecia, flaking dermatitis, etc..
Patent GB-2190940-A (GB)
Title: Mineral mining apparatus
Inventor: PATERSON RODNEY GORDON
IPC: E21C35/23
Filed: 1986-05-28
Abstract: A mineral mining apparatus comprises mineral mining picks 4 mounted by pick holders 2 and 3 formed as a circumferentially spaced array on a rotatable drum 1 to be sequentially and successively displaced into engagement with a mineral. Each pick 4 has associated therewith an outlet port (not shown) through which fluid is directed for flushing, cooling and dust suppression of that pick. Impact of the picks 4 with the mineral displaces a valve head 20 or 20a to allow the passage of fluid, supplied from a chamber 8, through a bore 12 in spigot 9 and mounting 16, into a passage 7 communicating with the outlet port in the pick 4. In addition to bore 12, the opening of the valve head 20 exposes a passage 26, which by way of transfer passage 28 and passage 25a communicates with the bore 12a in a trailing pick 4 so that the impact of the leading pick 4 on the mineral actuates the supply of fluid to the outlet port of the leading pick 4 and also to the subsequent trailing pick 4. When the leading pick 4 is disengaged from the mineral the fluid supplied from chamber 8 by way of the leading pick 4 is cut off by closure of the valve head 20. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2191198-A (GB)
Title: 4-Hydroxy derivatives of C-6 or C-7 substituted steroids
Inventor: FAUSTINI FRANCO
IPC: A61P13/02
Filed: 1986-06-02
Abstract: New steroids possessing aromatase-inhibiting activity are of formula (I> <IMAGE> wherein the symbol ---- represents a single or a double bond; R is hydrogen, C1-C6 alkyl, a hydroxy-protecting group, or -CO-R4 where R4 is (a) hydrogen; (b) C1-C22 alkyl unsubstituted or substituted by carboxy, C4-C7 cycloalkyl, heterocyclyl or phenyl; or (c) phenyl, unsubstituted or substituted by C1-C4 alkyl, trifluoromethyl, halogen or C1-C4 alkoxy; or R is -SO2-R5 where R5 is C1-C6 alkyl or phenyl, the phenyl ring being unsubstituted or substituted by C1-C4 alkyl; one of R1 and R2 is hydrogen and the other is C1-C6 alkyl, C2-C6 alkenyl, C2-C6 alkynyl, or phenyl, the phenyl ring being unsubstituted or substituted by halogen, hydroxy,   <IMAGE> (in which each of R6 and R7 is hydrogen or C1-C6 alkyl), or   <IMAGE> where n is 1 to 6 and each of R8 and R9 is hydrogen or C1-C6 alkyl, or NR8R9 is a heterocyclic ring; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.
Patent GB-2195258-A (GB)
Title: Dripmats used for playing games
Inventor: ANDERSON CHARLES E
IPC: A47G23/03
Filed: 1986-08-13
Abstract: For use in playing a game, a set of dripmats each have an identical pattern on a top side, and a reverse side on which a number of value- representative symbols are printed, the value-representative symbols being disposed near the edge of the mat and the arrangement of the value-representative symbols being different relative to the orientation of the pattern on the top side for the different mats of the set. The value- representative symbols may comprise a number of groups of symbols on the mats, each group comprising different numbers of identical symbols disposed around the mat, the arrangement of symbols or groups of symbols with respect to the orientation of the top-side pattern varying between the mats in the set. The mats may be square. polygonal or circular. The mats may be used e.g. to play the game "Spoof", which is played by some pubgoers to decide who will buy the next round of drinks. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2179856-A (GB)
Title: Warm-air hand/face drying installation
Inventor: POSTBESCHILD JOHN WILLIAM
IPC: A47K10/48
Filed: 1986-08-18
Abstract: A warm-air hand or face drying installation has a floor-mounted pedestal 1 with several drying apparatus 10 to 60 around its periphery. A single fan 4 supplies air to each apparatus via a central duct 6 when any one of the apparatus is switched on. Each apparatus has a flap valve 64 and a heater 63. The valve covers either the outlet 62 of the apparatus or a side opening 69 into the pedestal. When any one of the apparatus is switched on, the heater is energised and its valve opens to allow air flow to its outlet and onto the hands of the user. The heaters of other apparatus are not energised and their valves remain positioned such that air flow to the apparatus is directed internally between the pedestal casing and the duct, to the fan inlet. In this way, air flow can be maintained constant regardless of the number of apparatus in use. The fan remains on for a time longer than the heater. <IMAGE>