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Patent GB-2290402-A (GB)
Title: A wheeled motor vehicle security system
Inventor: DAYKIN MARK GERARD
IPC: B60R25/10
Filed: 1994-06-09
Abstract: The security system uses the output from one or more rotation sensors 17 normally used for detecting wheel rotational speed to detect unauthorised vehicle movement and to trigger an alarm 18. The normal use of the sensors 17 are as part of another vehicle system such as an anti-lock braking system which would not normally be used while the vehicle is stationary and immobilised. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2280838-A (GB)
Title: Footwear
Inventor: GRAVER STEPHEN EDWARD
IPC: A63C1/18
Filed: 1994-08-10
Abstract: An item of footwear 30 comprises a platform 1 and first and second straps 5 and 8, the free ends of which are interconnected in a readily-releasable manner for attachment around the ankle of a wearer, and the other ends of which are fixed to the same side 9 of platform 1. The free end of the second strap 8 may be fixed to an intermediate point of the first strap 5. The platform may have support legs 20 with adjustable lengths for use in decorating ceilings. The foot retaining strap arrangement may also be used with sandals, sports shoes, skates, crampons and skis. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2281705-A (GB)
Title: Ring-type painting gun with air atomizing nozzle
Inventor: TSUZUKI MASAYO
IPC: B05B1/30
Filed: 1994-08-22
Abstract: A ring-type painting gun (3) has a gun body (4) having a circumferential opening (7) so as to allow for entry of an elongate workpiece (W) to be painted, and a plurality of nozzles (5) radially disposed so as to eject paint towards a central portion of the gun body. The painting gun (3) is moved in a longitudinal direction of the workpiece (W) when the workpiece is placed inside the gun. Each of the nozzles (5) is constituted by an air atomising nozzle for atomizing the paint by atomizing air. An amount of the paint to be ejected from each of the nozzles is set to 5 - 35cc/min per 1kg/cm<2> of atomizing air pressure. For use in painting workpieces having complex cross-sectional shapes eg a vehicle door sash. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2280176-A (GB)
Title: A coupling arrangement for coupling a dispenser head to a container valve
Inventor: AUGUSTINUS PER KURT
IPC: B67D1/08
Filed: 1993-03-03
Abstract: A coupling arrangement serves to couple a dispenser head (1) to a valve (2) which is mounted in a connecting piece (3) on a container (4) for a liquid, such as beer under pressure from a gas, e.g. COË. Sealing between the two parts (1, 2) takes place by means of a sealing ring (16) which is arranged axially slidably in a recess (17) in the dispenser head. The head moreover contains a slide (9) which can be moved vertically up and down with a handgrip (10) to close and open the container and the pressure gas inlet, respectively. The slide downwardly has a first outwardly directed collar (28) to lift the sealing ring clear of the valve when the container is to be closed and the dispenser head to be removed. The slide moreover has a second outwardly directed collar (29) to cause the sealing ring to engage the valve before the slide opens the valve and the gas inlet. To ensure effective sealing and easy removal the sealing ring (16) has a relatively large, annular rib (19) of triangular cross-section on the underside. By means of the coupling arrangement a dispenser head can easily and without any difficulty be mounted on a valve in a pressure container for a liquid under pressure from a gas and be removed from it. Further, the operating staff will not be splashed with liquid when the container is opened. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2281476-A (GB)
Title: Digital switching system connecting buses with incompatible protocols and telephone answering system
Inventor: ANDERSON KENT D
IPC: H04M7/00
Filed: 1993-05-05
Abstract: A digital switching system connecting buses with incompatible protocols and a telephone answering system and private automatic branch exchange with integrated voice and textual message recording. The digital switching system (10) permits a digital switching matrix (12) having an input bus and an output bus to connect information selectively therebetween in response to control signals applied to switches of the switching matrix. A plurality of information systems (18, 20 and 22) each having a different bus protocol are electrically connected to the input and output buses of the switching matrix to permit information transmitted on a conductor of any of the information buses to be received by another conductor of any of the information buses through the input bus, the switching matrix and the output bus. A host processor controls the plurality of information systems, and may be used to commonly control textual message and voice message recording systems within a telephone answering system and commonly control telephony functions and textual message and voice recording systems within a PABX. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2283416-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle seat with a seat padding
Inventor: WEINGARTNER RUDOLF
IPC: B60N2/90
Filed: 1994-11-02
Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle seat with an upholstered seat element (4), in particular aircraft seat, with a support element (6) which is formed from foamed plastic and comprises a bearing component (7) made of an elastic foamed plastic (42) with a first weight by volume and an upper component (8) made of an elastic foamed plastic with a second weight by volume which is lower than the weight by volume of the bearing component (7), and a covering material (62), which components are connected to one another, in particular bonded at certain points. If appropriate, a flame-resistant intermediate layer (51) made of mesh or high-temperature-resistant fibres or threads (52) which are laid in a lattice configuration are arranged between the support element (6) and the covering material (62). At least over part of the thickness (12) of the bearing component (7) and/or of the upper component (8), an insertion component (9, 84) is arranged between a front and/or rear end edge (11, 25) of the bearing component (7) and/or upper component (8) and approximately a central region of the same. The latter is harder than the bearing component (7) and/or upper component (8). The weight by volume of the insertion component (9, 84) is lower than the first weight by volume of the bearing component (7). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2297502-A (GB)
Title: Cutter and blower-assist cylinder for a forage harvester
Inventor: HOWELLS BRYAN
IPC: A01F29/06
Filed: 1995-01-31
Abstract: A cutting cylinder for a harvester also functions to assist with blowing the chopped material towards an outlet chute. The blades are arranged on the cylinder's outer surface as two sets of knives fixed in a V pattern, with the apex leading, so that axial rotation of the cylinder throws the chopped material forward and to both sides of the cylinder. The blower-assist is produced by angled cleats 18 fixed to the end flanges of the cylinder.
Patent GB-2291821-A (GB)
Title: Disposable reactor vessel
Inventor: KATH GARY S
IPC: B01L3/00
Filed: 1995-07-24
Abstract: A disposable transportable reactor vessel (9) can be prepared by modifying a blowmolded eye-dropper pipette. The eye-dropper pipette (1) is modified by locating a porous plug in the stem (2) up to the neck (3) of the squeezer (4) and by looping the stem into the shape of a u-tube around the squeezer until the stem tip (10) is oriented in a downward direction. The porous plug, which may be made of high density polyethylene, glass, sintered metal, nylon, polysulfone, polycarbonate or polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE), permits selective passage of fluid while preventing resin flow. The stem may be inserted into a holder (6; figure 4) such that the pipette is axially aligned with the holder to facilitate use in a robotic system. Small scale solid phase chemical reactions may be conducted using such a reactor vessel. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2309730-A (GB)
Title: Hinged roof ladder
Inventor: BREWER LESLIE
IPC: E06C1/34
Filed: 1996-02-01
Abstract: A roof ladder comprising two or more sections of equal size which will fold flat onto one another and open out with each section moving on an arc of 270{ about an axis of the hinged connection, so that when fully opened the ladder will adjust to the contour of a roof with different pitch angles.
Patent GB-2297952-A (GB)
Title: Suspension control system for vehicle shock absorbers
Inventor: IWASAKI KATSUYA
IPC: B60G17/018
Filed: 1996-02-09
Abstract: A suspension control system for use with an automotive vehicle supported on front and rear road pairs of road wheels. Shock absorbers SA are provided between sprung and unsprung masses of the vehicle at the front and rear road wheel side tower positions for providing variable damping force characteristics. Behaviour of the vehicle at the front road wheel side left and right tower positions is sensed by vertical G sensors 1FL and 1FR respectively. A predetermined transfer function is used to calculate the behaviour of the vehicle at the rear road wheel side tower positions based on the sensed behaviour at the front of the vehicle. The damping force characteristics of the shock absorbers mounted at the front road wheel side tower positions are controlled based on the sensed behaviour at the front of the vehicle. The damping force characteristics of the shock absorbers mounted at the rear road wheel side tower positions are controlled based on the calculated behaviour for the rear of the vehicle.
Patent GB-2298002-A (GB)
Title: Self sucking centrifugal pump
Inventor: YOKOTA HIROSHI
IPC: F04D9/02
Filed: 1994-10-28
Abstract: A self-sucking centrifugal pump capable of displaying excellent self-sucking and pumping performance without changing the shape of a volute type centrifugal pump which already has a nearly perfect shape. The basic principle of a self-suction operation in which a gas-water mixture is pumped by a vortex current generated in a vane wheel by circulating self-sucking water by utilizing the characteristics of larger and smaller volute chambers formed in an outer circumferential portion of the vane wheel is clearly disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 3039/1953 entitled "Double Volute Chamber Type Centrifugal Pump". In a conventional centrifugal pump of this kind, those skilled in the art were intent on supporting a tail portion of a whirlwind type hollow, which occurs due to a self-suction swirl current for the gas-water centrifugal separation, on a limited part, and could not solve the new derivative technical problems. The present invention has first solved the technical problems definitely by forming in an upper portion of a self-suction water separating chamber e a helical guide flow passage F extending in the direction in which a rising part of a liquid surface occurring due to the centrifugal force of a self-section swirl current is wound down; forming in a bottom portion E of the separating chamber e a wind-out flow passage d extending in the direction in which an outer circumferential portion of the self-suction swirl current is introduced preferentially into a larger volute chamber v2; and forming in a cylindrical wall surface at a lower portion of the separating chamber e a helical guide flow passage G extending in the direction in which an outer circumferential portion of the self-suction swirl current is introduced preferentially into the larger volute chamber v2, the present invention having obtained a self-section type centrifugal pump capable of sending a set current advantageous for a subsequent stage to the same stage. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2303875-A (GB)
Title: Locking slider for slide fastener
Inventor: WAKABAYASHI MASAO
IPC: A44B19/30
Filed: 1996-07-23
Abstract: A locking slider comprises a slider body (1) composed of upper and lower wings (3, 4) joined by a guide post (5), the upper wing (3) having downwardly projecting side flanges (6) and upwardly projecting lugs (11) spaced by the width of a pull tab (2), each lug (11) having a horizontal slot (13) and a pivot hole (14) receiving the pivots (22) of the pull tab (2), the upper wing (3) having insertion holes (15) communicating with the horizontal slots (13); the pull tab (2) having locking pawls (23) insertable through the insertion holes (15) into engagement with the slide fastener elements, Fig 5 (not shown), when the pull tab (2) is pivoted about the pivots (22) to lie flat on the upper surface of the upper wing (3), the slider body (1) and the pull tab (2) being simultaneously molded using cores (25,26).
Patent GB-2317916-A (GB)
Title: Seat belt buckle
Inventor: HARRISON MARK JOHN
IPC: B60R22/12
Filed: 1996-10-07
Abstract: A seat belt buckle which is adapted to releasably engage a latch plate 42 having an aperture 40 therein. The buckle comprises a rigid frame 10 including a base 12 and upstanding side walls 14 adapted to guide the latch plate 42 longitudinally of the frame 10. A locking member 24 is mounted on the frame and carries a downwardly projecting locking element 38. A pair of wings 30 extend laterally from the locking member 24 and engage in the side walls 14 to pivotally and resiliently mount the locking member 24 for movement between upper and lower (latched) positions. The wings 30 are capable of elastic flexing upon axial loading of the locking member 24 by the latch plate 40. At least one stop member 34 extends laterally from the locking member 24 and engages abutments on the rigid frame 10, at least when the locking member 24 is in its lower position, to prevent flexing of the wings 30 beyond their elastic limit and the at least one stop member 34 is joined eg at 37 to an adjacent one of the wings 30 outside the side walls 14 of the frame 10.
Patent GB-2320488-A (GB)
Title: Self-service drinks dispenser
Inventor: RYAN CHARLES RAYMOND
IPC: G07F7/02
Filed: 1996-12-19
Abstract: A system for delivery of beverages, such as beer, that accurately measures the volume of liquid dispensed and will present and store further related information, for example the total price charged for the amount dispensed. The invention also accurately controls the flow-rate of the liquid, this being a significant influence on good quality delivery of beer, lager, cider and other drinks. The invention includes a mechanism for the measurement of liquid flow 5. The signal from this is routed to an electronic device and is interpreted and processed to provide various information outputs. The invention will be under the control of the user so that dispensing can be started and stopped at will. The invention also includes a mechanism for controlling the flow-rate of the liquid. The invention will also, optionally, halt the flow of liquid after a predetermined volume, for example one glass, has been dispensed. A display 8 indicates the volume of liquid dispensed and the cost thereof. A card reader 11 is adapted to debit this amount from a customer's credit card.
Patent GB-2316829-A (GB)
Title: A telephone handset with a noise-cancelling microphone mounted in a connector
Inventor: REX JAMES
IPC: H04R1/40
Filed: 1996-12-24
Abstract: The handset comprises a noise-cancelling microphone 24 mounted within connector block 12. One side of the microphone's diaphragm is coupled to a front microphone port 27 and the other side of the diaphragm is coupled to a back microphone port 26. The ports open onto the same surface of the handset and are substantially aligned with the expected location of the user's mouth. First and second order microphone embodiments are described.
Patent GB-2321110-A (GB)
Title: Member for mass flow measurement
Inventor: STRUBBE GILBERT JULIEN IRENEE
IPC: G01F1/20
Filed: 1997-01-11
Abstract: A member for measuring mass flow of grain in a combine harvester, is subjected to a force (or moment or torque) by the flow of grain along the surface of the member, the member being in the form of a pivoted curved deflector 51 (or the blade of a propeller or Coriolis meter), one of the parameters of the surface 53 being chosen to minimise the effect of changes in the coefficient of friction between the mass flow and the surface 53, on the detected force. The parameters include the length of the curve 55 and/or the straight 56, the angle of inclination of the mass flow inlet 28, the inlet velocity, and the direction of force measurement. The displacement of the deflector 51 is sensed by sensor 52.
Patent GB-2327124-A (GB)
Title: Rotational position indicator
Inventor: OLLIVER BRIAN VICTOR
IPC: G01D5/42
Filed: 1997-07-10
Abstract: A device to indicate the relative position of a rotated wheel with incremental indication of number of completed rotations and the direction of same. The device is self contained requiring no other influence except for gravity and to be afixed to the controlling wheel. The operation is by way of displaced material carried in a archimedian type scroll or spiral where gravity is the displacing force combined with the rotation of the controlling wheel.
Patent GB-2318709-A (GB)
Title: Private key with random and sequential components
Inventor: JOHNSON DONALD B
IPC: G06F7/58
Filed: 1997-10-08
Abstract: An integer for use as a private key comprises a first non-repeating progressively varying component 23 generated by a sequencer such as a counter 20, and a second randomly generated component 28 from a random number generator 26. The two components are transferred to a shift register 24 and are combined together to form an integer stored in a secure register 30 as a private key. The output of the random number generator may be used as the initial input to the counter (fig 4), or a permutation unit may be connected between the counter and shift register (fig 5). The counter may be arranged to increment at intervals of one or greater and at regular/irregular intervals.
Patent GB-2321534-A (GB)
Title: Collision avoidance system for a vehicle
Inventor: RICHARDSON DAVID L
IPC: G01S13/931
Filed: 1997-10-30
Abstract: The system has a vehicle steering sensor 26 sensing the direction in which the vehicle is being steered, a source or radiation 10, and a movable reflector 14 which directs the radiation in a desired direction 15. A closed loop control system, responsive to the output of the steering sensor 26, moves the reflector 14 so that the beam is directed in generally the same direction as that in which the vehicle is turning. The reflector may either rotate or translate to change the beam direction. As described, a fixed reflector 12 directs microwave radiation from feed horn 10 onto elliptic paraboloid reflector 14 which either rotates about a generally vertical axis, or translates along a transverse axis of the vehicle.
Patent GB-2325637-A (GB)
Title: Bending corrugated plastics sheet
Inventor: KENWORTHY DAVID MICHAEL ANTHON
IPC: B29C53/04
Filed: 1998-06-01
Abstract: The invention relates to plastics sheeting which in corrugated form has widespread usage as roofing, walls and partitions. Such corrugated sheeting can only be bent to curved configuration about a longitudinal axis, and cannot be bent in a direction transverse to the direction of the corrugations. The object of the invention is to provide a method of allowing a corrugated sheet to be reformed which object is met by a method comprising applying local heat to the sheet in a straight line across the sheet at right angles to the longitudinal axes of the corrugations by means of heaters 13, applying the locally heated part of the sheet to a former 17, and bending the sheet about the former 17, the sheet being left to cool and to set the sheet in a rigid angular condition about the line of the bend.
Patent GB-2346806-A (GB)
Title: A picture display device
Inventor: MACKENZIE NORMAN FRASER
IPC: B42D15/04
Filed: 1998-12-16
Abstract: A device, 1, for displaying an image on a vertical member in the style of a "diorama" is preferably constructed by folding a single sheet of material. The device may also provide a surface for displaying additional information on any of its other planes. Many different configurations are shown including the display of a plurality of vertical members.
Patent GB-2335472-A (GB)
Title: Subassembly electrical isolation connector for interconnecting adjacent drill rods
Inventor: LOGAN DEREK W
IPC: E21B47/12
Filed: 1999-02-05
Abstract: The connector comprises a housing 12, a mandrel 14, a connector 18 for connecting the housing to a first tubular drill rod, a connector 20 or connecting the mandrel to a second tubular drill rod and a device for interconnecting the housing and the mandrel in a manner to electrically isolate the housing from the mandrel with the housing overlapping at least a portion of the mandrel. The housing 12 has an isolated end which is electrically isolated from the mandrel 14 and the connector 20, and has a tapered surface 28 overlying a corresponding tapered surface 26 of the mandrel but separated by insulating material. Torque pins 44 of insulating material transfer torque between the housing 12 and mandrel 14. The housing end is isolated from a locking collar 30 and jamming nut 32 on the connector 20 by a gasket 34 and O-ring carrier rings 36,40. The mandrel 14 at the other end is isolated from the connector 18 by a gasket assembly 60 adjacent a tapered locking collar 16. Such arrangement provides enhanced strength to resist bending moments along the connector and resisting drilling forces.
Patent GB-2347317-A (GB)
Title: Determining a cost function from the actual resource impact of supporting a subscriber in a communications system
Inventor: OWEN RAYMOND
IPC: H04W28/24
Filed: 1999-02-25
Abstract: A resource impact is determined which may be an interference increment in the system caused by supporting the communication of the given subscriber unit. Alternatively the resource impact can be dependent on the performance of the subscriber unit when communicating and/or a signal to noise level required for supporting the communication need of the subscriber. A relative resource impact is evaluated from the actual resource impact compared to a nominal resource impact. The nominal resource impact may be the resource impact of supporting a subscriber averaged over all propagation conditions and assuming a subscriber unit having a specified performance. A cost function is calculated from the relative resource impact and is used to modify a resource allocation, call admission or a billing parameter such as the cost of the call to the subscriber.
Patent GB-2334153-A (GB)
Title: Outdoor converter for receiving satellite broadcast
Inventor: SATO MAKOTO
IPC: H01Q13/02
Filed: 1996-07-09
Abstract: A converter for receiving satellite broadcasts comprises an L shaped probe 13 for detecting a first linearly polarised wave. The probe is slidably mounted within an axial groove 26 formed within an inner wall portion of a cylindrical waveguide 10, so that one end projects into the waveguide. The other end of the probe is connected to a circuit substrate 11 mounted orthogonally to the travelling wave direction. The substrate 11 has a shorting terminal for a second probe 16 for detecting a second linearly polarised wave.
Patent GB-2349832-A (GB)
Title: Free-standing frame for safety carriage
Inventor: MORIARTY NICHOLAS SEAN
IPC: A63B9/00
Filed: 1999-05-14
Abstract: A climbing frame structure for outdoor adventure and training activities can have two or more upstanding poles 10, a horizontal beam 11 attached between the upper ends of a pair of poles 10. The ends of the beam can have projection regions 11a which extend out at least one metre beyond the attachment point of the beams 11 to the poles 10. Angled brace members 14 can be attached to the projection regions 11a and to the poles 10, more than say one metre from the intersection point between the beam 11 and the poles 10. A carriage 15 can be mounted for sliding/rolling along the beam 11, and attachable to a safety line. The brace members 14 may lie at 45{ to the beam 11 and poles 10, and the beam 11 may be attached to the poles 10 by bolts and welded bracket plates. The beams 11 may be of steel and I, T or L-sectioned flanged beams or channel-shaped beams. A free-standing structure which is structurally stiff and has no requirement for supporting guy lines is produced.