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Patent GB-2264164-A (GB)
Title: Lamp
Inventor: STEVENS RICHARD
IPC: F21V13/06
Filed: 1992-02-06
Abstract: A lamp is able to be converted from a floodlight (wide angle) configuration to a spotlight (narrow beam) configuration by rotation of a lens (7) divided into four quadrants of which two opposite quadrants (8) are dimpled and the other two opposite quadrants (9) are unmodified. The reflector, or a cover plate for the torch is similarly divided into four quadrants of which two opposite quadrants (5) are dimpled and the other two intervening opposite quadrants (6) are unmodified. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2253250-A (GB)
Title: A gearchange lever comprising lever parts connected by a deformable bar
Inventor: CHAZOT FRANK
IPC: F16H63/46
Filed: 1992-02-21
Abstract: A manual gearchange lever for a motor vehicle gearbox or the like comprises an upstream part having a knob (4) and carried by a downstream part of the lever, with a slight misalignment between the two parts occurring on manipulation of the knob, together with a force threshold detector (6, 7, 8) which includes electrical sensor means which may give a signal to operate a clutch. The force threshold detector comprises a resiliently deformable elastic, bar (6) having a head portion (61), which is fixed with respect to the knob (4), and a foot portion (65, 165-166) which is fixed against deflection in a female element (7, 32, 33) that is itself fixed to the downstream part of the lever. The electrical sensor means may comprise contact means or a Hall effect sensor. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2255016-A (GB)
Title: Extinguishing pipe fires by air deprivation
Inventor: CHARLES MARK ANDRE
IPC: E21B35/00
Filed: 1992-03-26
Abstract: There is provided a cover 16 defining a chamber 18 having a pipe opening for receiving the end of a pipe 10 which is on fire. The cover 16 also has an exhaust opening (19) for exhaust products. The fire is extinguished because it is deprived of oxygen through the pipe opening in the cover. The exhaust opening may also have a valve (20) to control the exhaust product outflow. The opening where the pipe enters the cover may be shut off by an iris (31) or clam-shell type sections. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2260172-A (GB)
Title: Automatic selector device for a change-speed gearbox of the epicyclic type
Inventor: PAULSEN LUTZ
IPC: F16H61/02
Filed: 1992-09-15
Abstract: In an automatic selector device for actuating a frictional selector means (clutch or brake) by a selector actuator 100, a selector valve 110 for the working pressure of the selector actuator 100, a change control valve 120 dependent on the steady-state condition of the selector means and a switch-over control valve 130 which can be triggered by an electronic control unit are combined in such a way that in the case of failure of the control unit or the voltage supply, the selector means remains actuated in its instantaneous steady-state condition. From the position illustrated energisation of valve 130 will cause pilot pressure P to switch valve 110 to pressurise friction means 100. Deenergisation of valve 130 will cause valve 120 to switch over and maintain valve 110 in the same position. Subsequent reenergisation of valve 130 will now switch over valve 110 to release the friction means and switching off valve 130 will return valve 120 to its initial position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2262360-A (GB)
Title: Optical fibre termination and laser doppler velocimeter incorporating same
Inventor: ROSS MICHAEL M
IPC: G02B6/42
Filed: 1992-12-11
Abstract: An optical fibre termination device in which a fibre end face 7 is mounted on the axis of a lens unit 9 so that if laser light were emitted by the fibre it would be focused to a remote point on the axis but for inherent divergence of the beam. This divergence is gradual and causes a pseudo focus 15, a 'waist' so-called. The fibre and lens unit are rigidly fixed together so that the waist moves as one with the fibre. A pinhole plate 17 is positioned in the plane of the waist, the pinhole just embracing the waist. Coupling to the fibre can then be achieved by focusing an external beam on to the pinhole. By arranging the fibre end face close to the lens unit, the waist is made considerably larger than the fibre core diameter and focusing of the external beam is simplified. A viewing eye piece (19, Fig 2) can be temporarily positioned to give a magnified view of the pinhole and the accuracy of focus of a laser beam on the pin hole. A further aperture tailored to the outgoing beam diameter can be mounted beyond the pinhole to exclude all but axial incoming beams. In a laser doppler velocimeter incorporating such a termination, signal processing may be suppressed in the absence of scattering particles (Fig 6) and further, the probe volume, at the foci of projection and reception assemblies may be back projected on to a screen to check their coincidence (Fig 7). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2277026-A (GB)
Title: Hair curling device
Inventor: VALENTINI RUDOLFO
IPC: A45D8/00
Filed: 1994-04-13
Abstract: A device 10 for curling hair comprises a closed or open-ended tube of stretch fabric such as nylon stocking fabric. In use, the tube is mounted on one or more fingers of one hand and a hank 14 of hair is wound around the tube and supporting fingers to form a coil, leaving an end portion of the tube free of the coil. This free end portion is then extended reversely over the wound coil so that the end portion contains the wound coil or curl until the latter is set. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2289664-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of labels
Inventor: INSTANCE DAVID JOHN
IPC: B31D1/02
Filed: 1994-05-27
Abstract: An apparatus for producing a succession of self-adhesive labels (6) carried on a length of release backing material (8), the apparatus comprising a label feeder (26) for feeding folded labels in succession onto a web (12) including a release backing material, a web conveyor for moving the web (12) past the label feeder, and a die-cutting station (34) downstream in the direction of web movement from the label feeder (26) at which self-adhesive labels are die-cut on the release backing material, wherein the die-cutting station includes a die-sensor which emits a die signal representative of the position of a die-cutter at a prescribed point in a die-cutting cycle and the label feeder is controlled with respect to the die signal. The invention also provides a method of producing a succession of self-adhesive labels carried on a length of release backing material, the method comprising the steps of:- (a) feeding, with a label feeder, a succession of folded labels in succession onto a web including a length of release backing material; (b) moving the web past the label feeder; and (c) die-cutting self-adhesive labels on the release backing material at a die-cutting station downstream in the direction of web movement from the label feeder, wherein the position of the die-cutter at a prescribed point in a die-cutting cycle is detected and the feeding of the labels by the label feeder is controlled with respect to the detected die-cutter position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2281329-A (GB)
Title: Coiled tubing wireline retrievable and selective set gas lift assembly
Inventor: PRINGLE RONALD EARL
IPC: E21B17/20
Filed: 1994-07-06
Abstract: A gas lift assembly 10 and gas lift valve 16 are positioned in coiled tubing 12. The coiled tubing housing and gas lift valve are flexible for allowing the coiled tubing to be spooled. The gas lift valve 16 is wireline retrievable for allowing gas lift valves to be removed for allowing other tools to pass through the coiled tubing. The gas lift valves 16 are selective in that they will seat only in a selected coiled tubing housing 14 as each valve has keys 62 which will match recesses 50 in the coiled tubing housing 14. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2280426-A (GB)
Title: Device for drawing material webs though a web processing machine
Inventor: THEILACKER KLAUS
IPC: B65H20/02
Filed: 1994-07-28
Abstract: A drawing-in device for threading the leading end of a web comprises a drawing-in element (11 - Fig 3b) with which the web is gripped and a means 2 of transmitting movement to the element and extending along a guideway 1. In order to prevent contamination of the guideway, a closure means e.g. 3, 4, is provided to close the guideway after the drawing-in process has finished. The closure means may be in the form of the lamellae 3, 4, or a single lamella or blast boxes (6, 7 - Figs 2a, 2b) movable perpendicularly to the plane of the web and having interengaging projections. In order to correct lateral displacement of the web during drawing-in, oblique rollers may be present. Alternatively, the web may be looped around rollers and the guideway may be modified so that the drawing-in element exerts a transverse pull on the web to compensate for the lateral displacement. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2294078-A (GB)
Title: Jointing of tube sections
Inventor: HULTSJO SVEN
IPC: F16L13/00
Filed: 1994-10-11
Abstract: A method of producing a jointed tube, eg for piling, comprises connecting adjacent tube sections 1, 2 by an internal jointing sleeve 3 externally coated with a thermoplastics material, heating the plastics coating on the sleeve to a plastic state, and then pressing each tube section end onto the sleeve while heated plastics material at the outer circumference of the sleeve is pressed away, the tube sections having an inside diameter less than the outside diameter of the plastics coating. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2287425-A (GB)
Title: Weld joint container
Inventor: GUNNELL LYLE P
IPC: B23K37/06
Filed: 1994-12-02
Abstract: A joint container for forming a weld joint between adjacent metal plates 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 which are spaced apart and positioned at an acute angle to each other employs a dam member in each of the spaces between adjacent plates. The dam member has a concave contour surface viewed in a direction toward the weld joint container. Thereby stress inducing sharp corners in the finished weld joint are minimized due to the reduction of the angles of the corners provided by the contour of each dam surface when it engages one of the plates. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2285252-A (GB)
Title: Handle for a cardboard box
Inventor: HEO SE-HWAN
IPC: B65D5/468
Filed: 1994-12-30
Abstract: A handle is formed in cardboard packing box by cutting a knob section (104) in a side (101) thereof, which section (104) is bounded along an upper edge by a bending section (105). Stresses generated at the ends of the parts of the bending section by usage of the box are relieved by the creation of openings (110). The bending section (105) comprises a primary bending line (107) and secondary bending lines (108, 109) below the primary line to enable the knob section (104) to bend around a reinforcing element inside the box when the handle is formed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2286185-A (GB)
Title: Triazole derivatives
Inventor: MATASSA VICTOR GIULIO
IPC: C07D521/00
Filed: 1995-01-24
Abstract: A class of substituted triazole derivatives are selective agonists of 5-HT1-like receptors and are therefore useful in the treatment of clinical conditions, in particular migraine and associated disorders, for which a selective agonist of these receptors is indicated. The compounds have the formula:   <IMAGE>  wherein one of Y and Z represents nitrogen and the other represents C-A<2>; E represents a bond or C1-4alkylene;      F represents a group of formula   <IMAGE>      B represents oxygen, sulphur or N-R<3>;      U represents nitrogen or C-R4;      V represents C1-4alkylene;      p is 0 or 1 and q is 1 to 4 with p+q being 2 to 4; R<2> is defined substituent and the remaining symbols represent hydrogen or defined substituents.
Patent GB-2297953-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle load cover
Inventor: OVERTON JANET
IPC: B60R5/04
Filed: 1995-02-16
Abstract: A load cover for concealing goods in the boot of a hatch back or the luggage compartment of an estate car comprises a flexible cover 10 which extends horizontally from a side wall W of the compartment, over the horizontal portion of a floor mounted frame 15 and then vertically down to the floor F. The cover may be retracted onto a roller blind or arranged to concertina. The vertical portion of the cover 10 divides the luggage compartment into two portions, one of the portions C being covered by the horizontal portion of the cover member 10, and the other portion U being uncovered. In use, large objects or animals can be carried in the uncovered portion U of the compartment, whilst small valuable or delicate objects can be carried separately in the covered portion C. The extent of the covered area may be adjusted by moving the frame 15 to a plurality of mounting positions fixed to the compartment floor, or on rails across the compartment floor.
Patent GB-2294527-A (GB)
Title: Assembly of gear pump and load-sensing priority flow valve
Inventor: SPURRY RODERICK HOWELL
IPC: F15B13/02
Filed: 1995-08-17
Abstract: A gear pump 10 and a load-sensing priority flow valve 20 are each self-contained with their own housing, but can be clamped together so that an outlet port 1 of the pump housing communicates directly with an inlet port 22 of the load sensing priority flow valve housing. The valve 20 is particularly switching spool valve which is controlled by a pilot valve responsive to an excessive pressure in a chamber (34) at one end of the valve spool (Fig. 2, not shown) or in a priority flow outlet (30) (Fig. 6, not shown). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2307669-A (GB)
Title: A parking brake in a four-wheel-drive vehicle transmission
Inventor: GUEST PHILIP JOHN
IPC: B60T1/00
Filed: 1995-12-02
Abstract: The parking brake (32) of a four wheel drive vehicle is arranged in a transfer transmission (14) which comprises a centre differential (16) through which drive is transmitted to outputs (43, 45) for driving respective front and rear wheels of the vehicle. The parking brake comprises a first disc brake (53) arranged to brake output shaft (45) to the transmission casing (84) and a second disc brake (65) arranged to brake the pinion carrier (38) of the centre differential to the casing. The operating arrangement (74) comprises two annular actuating plates (76, 78) which can be moved apart axially by balls (98) to apply the disc brakes.
Patent GB-2307877-A (GB)
Title: A plane
Inventor: FREEMAN EDWARD
IPC: B27G17/02
Filed: 1995-12-08
Abstract: A plane 2 comprising a blade portion 4 with handle portions 6,8 at either end and a blade 44 positioned for use with an edge protruding through a blade slot 14. A storage area 10 contains a plurality of unused blades 12. An ejector 16 comprises two elongate members 22 biassed by springs (18,20 fig 2) and terminating in pins 28 which engage with apertures 46 in the side of a blade. A used blade is ejected through the slot 14 by hand pressure applied to the ejector against the bias of the springs. Upon release of the pressure the ejector returns to its at-rest position. A fresh blade is brought to the blade slot by operation of an adjustor 56 pushing against an anchor block 52. The new blade is located by spring loaded pins (48 fig 3) in frog member 32.
Patent GB-2297206-A (GB)
Title: Interconnection terminal fixing structure for electronic switch
Inventor: LEE HAN BAE
IPC: H01R4/30
Filed: 1996-01-22
Abstract: An improved interconnection terminal fixing structure for a electronic switch capable of more stably fixing an interconnection terminal to a main body using manually tightening bolts 18, which includes a bolt insertion groove 12a having a certain width and vertically formed at both sides of walls 12 in a direction of the interior of the walls, wherein the interconnection terminals are connected to the fixing terminals using a bolt 18. The fixing structure includes a plurality of such connections situated between a plurality of walls. Additionally, the bolt may have a head having a cross groove 18a, so that the bolt can be tightened using a bolt fixer or a driver.
Patent GB-2300222-A (GB)
Title: Ball joint
Inventor: IWAMOTO TAKASHI
IPC: F16C11/06
Filed: 1996-04-02
Abstract: A ball joint device 1 for use with a ball stud having a spherical fitting part comprises a ball holder 2 with a through hole, a plurality of and preferably at least three ball abutting ribs 5 projecting inwardly from an inner surface of the ball holder 2, a ring-shaped projection 7 formed at a lower part of the ball holder 2 to extend along a periphery of the inner surface of the ball holder, a fitting ring j disposed on the projection 7, and a rotation preventing rib 6 projecting inwardly from the inner surface of the ball holder 2, the fitting ring j being elastically deformable and having a slit, and the rotation preventing rib 6 being placed in the slit of the fitting ring j to prevent the fitting ring j from moving on the projection 7, whereby in use a ball stud g having a spherical fitting part h can be reliably disposed between the fitting ring j and the ball abutting ribs 5.
Patent GB-2312272-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable steering column assembly for a vehicle
Inventor: HENRY-MOORE NICHOLAS
IPC: B62D1/184
Filed: 1996-04-18
Abstract: An adjustable steering column assembly includes an upper steering column 4 rotatable within a tilt box 11 which is pivotable, relative to a bracket 10, about axis 8 and which is secured in an adjusted position by interengagement of a toothed component 12 pivotally mounted on the tilt box with a toothed component 13 mounted on the bracket 10. In order to prevent disengagement of the toothed components 12 and 13 in the event of a vehicle crash, a rotatable lever 17 is spring-biased into engagement with the underside of a head of a detent bolt 20 and the upper surface of the toothed component 12. For adjustment of the upper steering column, a lever 15 is depressed to cam the lever 17 away from its locked position and to raise the component 12 via pin 14.
Patent GB-2312293-A (GB)
Title: Footwear raise assessor for leg length inequality
Inventor: TODD ROY
IPC: A61F3/00
Filed: 1996-04-19
Abstract: A footwear raise assessor may include two moulded parts 1 and 2 which can be adjusted to fit a range of footwear sizes and may be attached to a person's footwear preferably by using straps 8 and ties 4 and 6. The footwear raise assessor may include a range of temporarily attachable soles 11 and heels 11 of varying thicknesses which can be adjusted to fit a range of footwear sizes.
Patent GB-961855-A (GB)
IPC: A61J9/00
Abstract: 961,855. Feeding containers. MEAD JOHNSON & CO. April 13, 1961, No. 13303/61. Heading A5X. A disposable feeding container comprises a top section 11 having an opening 14 for receiving a nipple and a flexible bottom section 12 sealed to the top section 11 at 13 and collapsible into it. The nipple 15 having a crosscut valve 35 is inserted in the aperture before sealing and positioned with its rim 32 between a rib 23 of the section 11 and the folded-in edge of the aperture. The container may be sterilized and filled with a milk powder before sealing, and the nipple folded within the container and contained within a cover 16 for storage purposes. The container is composed of plastics, rubber &c. In use, the feeding container is filled with a liquid through the valve 35, and during feeding, as liquid is withdrawn, the bottom section collapses and folds along ribs 12a. It may be held by means of an apertured tab 39.
Patent GB-2304808-A (GB)
Title: A window stay incorporating a locking catch.
Inventor: DAVIS RONALD PERCIVAL
IPC: E05D15/30
Filed: 1996-09-09
Abstract: A friction window stay has a locking catch to hold the window in one or more fixed positions. The catch comprises an arm 11 pivotally connected at 12 to the sash mounting member 2A, and has means 13 at, or towards, the other end that can engage the arm 3. The means may comprise a protrusion 13 that engages in a groove or slot 14 in the link 3 with detents 14b and 14d, or it may comprise an arm end region of channelled cross section which engages in hook shaped recesses at the edge of the link 3. To enable further opening, or closing, of the stay it is first necessary to slightly close, or open, the stay to allow manual disengagement of the latch. A further link between the frame mounting member 1 and the link 3 may be provided.
Patent GB-2306987-A (GB)
Title: Drill chuck
Inventor: SKINNER KEITH THOMAS
IPC: B23B31/02
Filed: 1996-10-31
Abstract: A drill chuck for holding a tapered end 13 of a tubular drill bit 10 comprises a driving member 17 having a tapered surface 16 for frictional engagement with the tapered end of the drill bit 10, a first holding member 20 mounted on the driving member 17 and a second holding member 30 mounted, in use, on the tubular drill bit 10. The second member 30 has a substantially radial surface formed by flange 31 for abutment with a washer 32 carried by the drill bit 10. The two holding members 20, 30 can be screwed together whereby abutment between the flange 31 on the second holding member 30 and the washer 32 on the drill bit 10 urges the tapered end 13 of the tubular drill bit 10 into frictional driving contact with the tapered surface 16 of the driving member 17. An additional washer 34 carried by the drill bit may be used to separate the tapered surfaces 13,16 when the second member 30 is unscrewed from the first member 20.
Patent GB-2320709-A (GB)
Title: A spout for a container
Inventor: FEDORAK DAVID PAUL
IPC: B65D5/74
Filed: 1996-12-27
Abstract: A spout for a container made from card may be pulled out to an operative position eg by means of a cord and returned to a closed position in which it is retained by cooperating pins and sockets on the spout and container.
Patent GB-2323244-A (GB)
Title: Method of switching
Inventor: MUHLEBACH ANDREAS
IPC: H04M1/715
Filed: 1997-03-14
Abstract: A method of switching a telephone call between branch telephones of a shared-line telephone system including the step of storing respective branch telephone code numbers in respective branch telephones through a respective key pad, the step of inputting the branch telephone code number of the designated branch telephone through the key pad of the picked up branch telephone, causing the designated branch telephone to be rung up.
Patent GB-2329825-A (GB)
Title: Coffee maker with brew strength control
Inventor: HOYSTED LAURA PATRICIA
IPC: A47J31/44
Filed: 1997-07-30
Abstract: A domestic coffee-making appliance comprises a tank for fresh water, and a flow heater connected both to the tank and to a riser tube which conveys hot water from the flow heater up to a drip-feed head which is positioned above a coffee-filter receiving station. The drip-feed head delivers hot water that is showered on to the coffee solids in the filter, and brews coffee which is collected in a carafe. In order to enable a user of the appliance to select the strength of the brewed coffee, the drip feed head includes a spreader member 16, rotatable with respect to an apertured plate member 14, and arranged so that, in dependence upon the relative rotational position (selected by the user) of the spreader member relative to the plate member, the hot water is showered on to the coffee solids through apertures at selected radial locations of said plate member. The spreader member is disposed above the plate member, and is formed with downwardly dependent walls configured to divert hot water to and through selected apertures, depending on the user-selected rotational position of the spreader member and the plate member; the plate member being of substantially flat construction without traps for stale water, scum or scale.
Patent GB-2327879-A (GB)
Title: Foot care appliance
Inventor: ROTHMAN MARK
IPC: A47K7/02
Filed: 1997-08-05
Abstract: A foot care appliance comprises a raised curved plastic bowl lined with pumice supported by a metallic spring which is attached to a suction pad for placing on the bottom or side of a bath or washbasin.