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Patent GB-2448604-A (GB)
Title: Copy-Protected Documents
Inventor: SILVER JACK
IPC: B42D15/00
Filed: 2008-04-17
Abstract: The invention relates to documents of value incorporating features that prevent them being accurately copied by image reproduction means such as a scanner or photocopier. A document of value (10) bears an image comprising a material doped with a rare-earth element wherein the image has a first appearance under daylight and has a second appearance under synthetic white light. A copy (14) of the original document (10) is not colour identical to the original document. Typical colour changes are from yellow/green to yellow or orange to pink and purple to pale green when reproduction is attempted. Preferred rare-earth elements are erbium, neodymium and holmium which are doped into an yttium lattice. An appropriate printing ink is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2460496-A (GB)
Title: Music device with contact sensitive sound creation regions
Inventor: PERCIVAL MARK JOHN LEE
IPC: G09B15/04
Filed: 2008-06-06
Abstract: A music device 10, for example a music teaching aid, comprises a user interface device 12 such as a floor mat which includes a plurality of sound creation regions 54 each associated with at least one sound. Each sound creation region 54 includes a sensor arrangement (53) for sensing when said region 54 is contacted by a user, preferably comprising: two conductive components, separated by an insulator having apertures to allow electrical connection of the conductive components upon application of pressure. A processing arrangement 16 is interactively associated with the user interface device 12, and is capable of being associated with a speaker arrangement 14 to cause the speaker arrangement 14 to emit a sound associated with the sound creation region 54 contacted by the user. The processing arrangement 16 may be configured to provide instructions to the user via a display arrangement 30 such as a television screen or computer monitor.
Patent GB-2461063-A (GB)
Title: Wearable non-slip instrument support
Inventor: CADD JOHN JOSEPH PATRICK
IPC: G10D3/18
Filed: 2008-06-19
Abstract: A wearable instrument supporting means comprises: an instrument mountable support (10) having a surface (11); and a wearable support 1 having at least one region 4 that has a non-slip relationship with the surface (11) of the instrument mountable support (10). The non-slip region 4 of the wearable support 1 is positioned to contactably align with the surface (11) of the instrument mountable support (10) when the instrument is in normal use. The non-slip relationship may be frictional, mechanical or magnetic. The wearable support 1 may include a non-stretch retainer to allow the support 1 to be worn around the neck of a user. The instrument mountable support (10) is preferably flexible and may be fitted to the chin-rest of a musical instrument such as a violin or viola.
Patent GB-2453010-A (GB)
Title: Plasterboard anchor
Inventor: BEVERIDGE ROBERT JUSTIN
IPC: F16B37/12
Filed: 2008-06-20
Abstract: A plasterboard anchor for fixing an object to a wall surface having an outer plasterboard layer 12 and an underlying structure 10 such as a brickwork substrate or a second plasterboard layer, the outer layer 12 being spaced from the underlying structure 10 by a cavity 16 comprises a threaded portion 52 for engaging with the outer layer 12 and means 54 for engaging or co-operating with the underlying structure 10. A threaded fastener engages the anchor to fix an object to the wall surface.
Patent GB-2454080-A (GB)
Title: Antipropionibacterial formulations
Inventor: SEVILLE SCOTT
IPC: A61K31/05
Filed: 2008-03-14
Abstract: Use of a compound of formula (III) below; <EMI ID=1.1 HE=53 WI=116 LX=440 LY=786 TI=CF> <EMI ID=1.2 HE=7 WI=23 LX=918 LY=1538 TI=CF> wherein each of R1 and R2 is independently selected from methyl and ethyl and R3 is hydrogen, or a derivative thereof, as an agent against propionibacteria and conditions caused by such bacteria. The compound (III) or derivative may be used in particular for the treatment of acne.
Patent GB-2451987-A (GB)
Title: Assessment of the effects of topical administration of chemodenervating pharmaceuticals
Inventor: EDELSON JONATHAN
IPC: A61K39/02
Filed: 2008-11-27
Abstract: The present invention provides methods for assessing the activity of topically administered chemodenervating agents. In some embodiments, methods for assessing the activity of topically administered chemodenervating agents involve determining the extent of inhibition of acetylcholine release near the site of administration. In some embodiments, methods for assessing activity of topically administered chemodenervating agents involve observing a reflex motion of a limb of a subject.
Patent GB-2465993-A (GB)
Title: Footwear
Inventor: WHITE BONNIE PATRICIA
IPC: A43B5/06
Filed: 2008-12-04
Abstract: Footwear 10, e.g. a trainer, comprises an upper 12 and a sole 14, a multimedia transmitter 16 and sensing means 20 provided on the sole, e.g. at the toe and heel ends, wherein the sensing means is responsive to the pace of the wearer such that the transmitter is only operable when the wearer is running or jogging. The transmitter 16 may be located in a compartment 15 in upper 12 or compartment 25 in the sole. The transmitter may transmit audio mp3 or video mp4 multimedia. Controls 21-23 may be provided, to end or begin the multimedia signal independently of sensing means 20, and to change tracks and volume. Speakers may be provided in the shoe for direct playback of audio. A cavity may be provided for batteries, a recharging unit and a removable flash memory card. The transmitter can operate using infra-red, Bluetooth or wifi signals.
Patent GB-2466036-A (GB)
Title: Union nut with profiled aperture for installing over pipe end flange
Inventor: COXON MARK
IPC: F16L19/02
Filed: 2008-12-09
Abstract: A profiled union nut 12 is used to secure a gas pressure regulator 22 to a union boss of a utility meter. The regulator 22 includes a liner 24 with a circumferential flange 26, and the nut 12 has a rim 18 with a non-circular shaped aperture. The aperture has a relatively larger portion allowing it to be slid over the liner flange 26, and a relatively smaller portion which is able to engage the flange which has been inserted and clamp it against the union boss. The nut 12 can be fitted from the flange end of the liner, and so is particularly suited for use with a one-piece regulator and liner (i.e. integrally cast) and with regulators having a liner already attached to the body of the regulator prior to fixing to the meter.
Patent GB-2466072-A (GB)
Title: A Cartesian transmitter with a loop filter adapted in dependence on loop delay
Inventor: AYUN MOSHE BEN
IPC: H03F1/32
Filed: 2008-12-12
Abstract: Loop delay in a Cartesian feedback linearised transmitter is computed during a training episode from the settings of the phase shifter 242 required to achieve phase quadrature balance at two frequencies. The pole and zero frequencies of the loop filters 206,209, and the DC loop gain, are then adapted in dependence on the loop delay to maintain stability of the Cartesian loop while minimizing adjacent channel power. If the delay is found to be excessive the transmitter bandwidth may be reduced or the transmitter may be operated in an open loop mode. Improved loop stability allows a Cartesian loop transmitter to be used for broadband signals such as LTE (Long Term Evolution), WiMax, WCDMA and EDGE.
Patent GB-2456081-A (GB)
Title: Optimized reconstruction and copyback methodology for a failed drive in the presence of a global hot spare disk
Inventor: SANGAPU SATISH
IPC: G06F11/10
Filed: 2007-09-18
Abstract: The present invention is a system for optimizing the reconstruction and copyback of data contained on a failed disk in a multi-disk mass storage system. A system in accordance with the present invention may comprise the following: a processing unit requiring mass-storage; one or more disks configured as a RAID system; an associated global hot spare disk; and interconnections linking the processing unit, the RAID and the global hot spare disk. In a further aspect of the present invention, a method for the reconstruction and copyback of a failed disk volume utilizing a global hot spare disk is disclosed. The method includes: detecting the failure of a RAID component disk; reconstructing a portion of the data contained on the failed RAID component disk to a global hot spare disk; replacing the failed RAI component disk; reconstructing any data on the failed RAID disk not already reconstructed to the global hot spare disk to the replacement disk; and copying any reconstructed data from the global hot spare disk back to the replacement RAID component disk.
Patent GB-2456092-A (GB)
Title: Carbon pre-treatment for the stabilization of PH in water treatment
Inventor: RYAN THOMAS ANTHONY
IPC: C01B32/50
Filed: 2007-07-17
Abstract: Treatment of un-wetted or low moisture activated carbon with a suitable quantity of carbon dioxide provides a material which, on contact with water, controls pH in treatment water. Use of this treated activated carbon in a water treatment system provides water having an essentially neutral pH which is immediately potable thereby eliminating the necessity to drain and dispose of any soak water. The contact pH of the treated carbon remains within the potable pH range for treatment of more than 100 bed volumes. Additionally, the modified carbon may minimize metal leaching from contaminants in the water.
Patent GB-2457394-A (GB)
Title: Ablutionary installations
Inventor: NICHOLS JOHN
IPC: E03C1/044
Filed: 2007-12-07
Abstract: A shower system in which the cold water supply (3) to a thermostatic electric shower (1) is pre-heated by heat exchange with wastewater from the shower (1) in a heat recovery unit (21) connected to an outlet of a shower tray (17) for collecting and draining wastewater discharged from a shower head (9). The shower (1) is thermostatically controlled and responds automatically to compensate for the pre-heating of the cold water supply to maintain substantially constant a selected water temperature such that pre-heating the cold water supply does not cause the temperature of the outlet water discharged by the shower (1) to increase during operation of the shower (1).
Patent GB-2472057-A (GB)
Title: FIFO queue coupling device for communication between systems using Linux pipe semantics
Inventor: BUENDGEN REINHARD
IPC: G06F9/46
Filed: 2009-07-23
Abstract: A coupling device for communication between operating systems in a cluster has a number of FIFO queues. The operating systems have an application programming interface which uses Linux pipe semantics to read from and write to the queues. The coupling device maintains the data structures and locks needed to represent Linux pipes. This allows the use of standard mount, open, write, read and close function calls to the operating system kernel to be used to access the FIFO queues on the coupling device. A write function call with more data than will fit in a single queue entry is split into several entries. A read function call, for less data than will fit into single queue entry, will return an error code indicating that it has failed and not alter the queue. The operating systems my run on a single computer system or be distributed across several computer systems.
Patent GB-2472416-A (GB)
Title: Medical liquid droplet apparatus
Inventor: YU NENG-CHIH
IPC: A61M15/00
Filed: 2009-08-05
Abstract: The apparatus comprises a driving base 30 and a polymeric film 31, the driving base is capable of providing a vibrating energy. The polymeric film, having a plurality of tiny openings 311 formed thereon, each of which is between 2-6 micrometers (d) and the center to center distance being 60-180 micrometers (P). The polymeric material may be plastic, Teflon (RTM) or polyethylene. The vibration unit may be an ultrasonic or a piezoelectric unit. The base may comprise a ring-like metal energy conductor 302 and a ring-like vibrating source 301.
Patent GB-2475528-A (GB)
Title: Trailer braking system having independently operable brakes on either side of the trailer
Inventor: HARRISON DUDLEY JOHN
IPC: B60T8/1764
Filed: 2009-11-23
Abstract: A braking system for a trailer 16 having at least one axle on which are mounted two ground-engaging wheels 26, 26', 28, 28', one of which is provided on a first side of the trailer 16 whilst the other is provided on a second side of the trailer 16. Each wheel 26, 26', 28, 28' has a brake which is operable independently of the other by means of a brake actuator assembly (26b, 26b', 28b, 28b', 46, 46', fig 3). The method includes controlling the difference between the brake pressure applied by the brake to the wheel 26, 28 on the first side of the trailer 16 and the brake pressure applied by the brake to the wheel 26', 28' on the second side of the trailer 16 so that it does not exceed a predetermined maximum pressure differential. The maximum pressure differential may be set dependent on vehicle speed. The method may provide roll over stability control braking and/or anti-lock braking (ABS).
Patent GB-551051-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to blanket feeder for glass melting tanks
IPC: C03B3/00
Filed: 1941-08-06
Abstract: 551,051. Charging glass-melting tanks. STEVENS, A. H. (Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.). Aug. 6, 1941, No. 10017. [Class 51 (ii)] Glass making materials are fed from a hopper 35, Fig. 2, on to the surface of the molten glass in a glass tank by a reciprocating plate 40 arranged at the base of the hopper which is provided with a rotary screw charge leveller 43. The charge is fed in a uniform layer on to the glass in the tank and is gradually moved forward into the heating zone. The plate 40 is connected to a frame 50 mounted between rollers 52 and driven by a motor 75 through a crank and connecting rod and rack and pinion gearing 55, 56. In the modification shown in Fig. 6, the charge is fed into the tank from a hopper 221 by a reciprocating plate 115 and a reciprocating water cooled slide 215. The plate 115 and slide 215 are mounted on separate independently driven carriages 100, 200 and are moved forward together to feed the material into the tank and the plate 115 and slide 215 are then withdrawn successively.
Patent GB-541594-A (GB)
Title: An improved animal food and process for manufacturing same
IPC: A23K50/15
Filed: 1940-06-08
Abstract: 541,594. Food for animals. BACHER, A., and MACMANUS, D. A. June 8, 1940, No. 10042. [Class 5 (ii)] An inorganic nitrogen salt, e.g. ammonium bicarbonate or sulphate or a mixture of the two, is mixed with a liquid or semi-liquid proteincontaining material such as distillery wash or used brewers' yeast, and the resulting paste is mixed with a pulped or comminuted carbohydrate which has been hydrolysed in the presence of a mineral acid under pressure in an autoclave. The carbohydrate may be cereal straw, potatoes, mangolds or turnips. The acid may be sulphuric. A culture of a fastgrowing micro-organism, preferably Torulopsis utilis, may be added, as may also potassium sulphate or ammonium phosphate for the purpose of favouring the growth of the organism. During mixing 'the mixture may be aerated.
Patent GB-237339-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to receiving valves such as are used in connection with pneumatic ticket carrier apparatus
IPC: B65G51/02
Filed: 1924-04-23
Abstract: 237,339. Western Electric Co., Ltd., and Jenkins, G. M. O. April 23, 1924. Pneumatic dispatch apparatus.-A receiving valve apparatus for pneumatic ticket carrier apparatus is provided with means actuated by the ticket for cutting off the vacuum to permit release of the ticket. Figs. 2 and 3 show the apparatus in front and side view, partly in section, and Fig. 1 shows the electric solenoid apparatus attached to the receiving apparatus. The folded ticket 41 arrives from any point through a tube connected to the receiver on the right band of the partition 3, a vacuum being maintained through a gauze door 20 and a passage 7 leading to a source of vacuum. A valve 5 is provided to adjust the degree of vacuum. The gauze door 20 is fixed on a rod 18 which projects from the casing and carries an insulated arm 22 to operate spring contacts 23, 24 in the circuit of a slow-acting relay controlling the circuit of a solenoid 25 when the ticket 41 clings to the gauze door 20 and rocks it. The core 26 of the solenoid 25 has an extension 27 controlled by an adjustable spring 28. The extension 27 is slotted, and extended across the slot is a pin 34 passing through a slot 33 in a link 32 mounted on a rod 15 which extends back into the casing and acts as the pivot of the door 14. An insulated arm 37 on the rod 15 engages a spring 38 to break contact between the normallyclosed springs 38, 39 which are in the circuit of the solenoid 25. The spring 28 then restores the arm 27 and core 26 of the de-energized solenoid 25 to its normal position and the rod 15 is rocked to close the door 14 after the ticket 41 has fallen through into a receptacle beneath. Chains 13 connect the door 14 to a leaf spring 11 which is kept open when the door 14 is closed, but automatically shuts when the door is open to shut off the vacuum from the ticket receptacle.
Patent GB-995317-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to a mechanical basting puller
Inventor: STEWART ROBERT BERTEN
IPC: A41H31/00
Filed: 1964-03-10
Abstract: 995,317. Unpicking basting threads. REECE CORPORATION. March 10, 1964, No. 10163/64. Heading B4B. [Also in Division F4] A mechanical device for pulling basting threads 22 from the fabric 20 of garments comprises a chamber containing a rotatable flywheel 11 provided with needles 12 and blades 13 and having openings 14, 15, 18, the opening 15 leading to a vacuum hose 16. Sharpened edges 23 are provided for severing basting threads caught by the needles. The flywheel is rotated either by means of the air stream passed through the opening 14 or by means of a shaft 29 driven by a motor 38 and having a worm gear 40 engaging a cog wheel 39. The flywheel may be raised or lowered by means of an adjusting screw. A cylinder 26 contains a plurality of multi-membered tweezers 27 for picking up basting thread ends not caught by the needles. The tweezers are rotated clockwise by means of a worm gear 28 on shaft 29 engaging a gear 30 on axle 31. During rotation of the tweezers, the air stream entering the cylinder 26 through openings 18 draws into these openings any basting that may be left in the fabric and positions it just in front of a spreader 32. When the tweezers are rotated, the tweezers' jaws 33 are opened by the spreader and after passing the spreader they return to the closed position and catch the positioned basting. As the jaws 33 continue to rotate they lift the basting from the fabric and move it to a spreader 36 which opens the jaws to release the basting into the air stream which passes out through an air shaft 37 which leads to the vacuum hose 16.
Patent GB-1065535-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to counting mechanisms
Inventor: BARBER CLIFFORD CHARLES
IPC: G06M3/08
Filed: 1964-03-11
Abstract: 1,065,535. Counters. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DEFENCE. June 11,1965 [March 11, 1964], No. 10298/64. Heading G4D. [Also in Division G1] The drive to a cyclometer type of counter is applied to a wheel 5, a wheel 6 of lower denomination being disengaged and displaced to the right by a spring 19. At read-out a lever 16 is rotated, a cam-disc 14 engages the lower wheel through epicycle gearing with the drive to wheel 5, after which a gear-drive 23-29 drives the wheel 5 in reverse until a tooth 12 abuts a pawl 18. The numerals are marked on the wheel in opposite sense so that the wheel 6 now registers the lowest denomination of the measurement. The invention may be applied to a height gauge, Fig. 3, in which the feeler 41 is driven through gearing by an electric motor 42.
Patent GB-396172-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to showcards
IPC: A47F5/11
Filed: 1932-04-11
Abstract: 396,172. Collapsable cardboard display stands. FLETCHER & SON, Ltd. and OLIVER, H. B., Castle Works, Norwich. April 11, 1932, No. 10347. [Class 52 (v).] A showcard of the kind which is formed from a single blank and wherein the central portion of the blank is partly cut out and the side portions are bent round and locked behind the central portion, thus enabling the card to stand erect, is so constructed that when the card is erected the side portions are visible around the central portion and form a background against which the central portion stands out in relief. As shown in Fig. 1, the showcard formed from a semi-circular blank comprises a portion 5 cut along lines 6, and portions 7, 8 connected thereto by scores 9. To erect the card the portions 7, 8 are bent rearwardly in arched form and locked together by a tongue 10 and slot 11 as in Fig. 2. In a modification, Fig. 4, the portion 5 is scored at 13 and bent back to form a display platform 14, a tab 12 on the platform being inserted in a slot in each of the portions 7, 8, these slots being brought into register when the portions 7, 8 are locked together. The cards may be provided with slits or projections for holding articles for display.
Patent GB-301300-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the coating of perforated metal sheets and articles with rubber
Filed: 1928-04-05
Abstract: 301,300. Anode Rubber Co., Ltd., (Assignees of Anode Rubber Co. (England), Ltd.). Nov. 26, 1927, [Convention date]. Reels or bobbins.-Periorated metal reels or spools are completely covered with rubber by deposition from an aqueous dispersion, whereby the edges of the perforations are given a founded finish. The coating may be formed by dipping into latex, which may be thickened and mixed with filers, vulcanizing ingredients &c. The metal may be provided with a coating of a coagulating substance such as calcium chloride, or acetic acid in gelatine. Electrophoresis may also be employed for producing the coating in which case the metal should be coated if necessary with an easily oxidizable metal to prevent gas formation.