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Patent GB-2295574-A (GB)
Title: Welding apparatus
Inventor: IIMURA TAICHI
IPC: B29C65/02
Filed: 1995-10-27
Abstract: A welding apparatus 1 comprises a plate 3 for holding an object P to be welded and a body 2 with a heater (91, Figure 4) and means for positioning the holding plate 3 and the heater (91) such that the heater is exposed to the object through a window 31 in the plate. Preferably the body comprises a port 4 through which the plate is inserted and means for providing relative movement such that the heater moves along the window in the plate. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2295530-A (GB)
Title: Root crop harvester
Inventor: GARFORD NORMAN ALFRED
IPC: A01D25/04
Filed: 1995-11-29
Abstract: Apparatus for harvesting beet and the like root crops which utilises rotatable crop lifting wheels 14, has crop retaining means 40 which is co-operable with at least one of said rotatable lifting wheels to close, at least partially, one or more openings therein, in a lower portion of the locus of movement of the wheel during each revolution of the wheel to prevent loss of the harvested beet through the openings in that portion of the rotation of the crop wheel. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2297633-A (GB)
Title: Traction control
Inventor: MATSUNO KOJI
IPC: B60K28/16
Filed: 1996-01-30
Abstract: Traction control in a four wheel drive vehicle is commenced S6 when the slip amount of either the front wheels or the back wheels exceeds the target slip amount for those wheels. The traction control is applied via an engine torque control system S7 and a brake pressure control system S8. The vehicle speed is calculated S3 from the speed of the slowest wheel S1 and the longitudinal acceleration S2 of the vehicle and is used to calculate the slip amount of each wheel S4 and the target slip amounts S5. In a further embodiment, the traction control can also involve controlling the differential limiting torque S9. The control may take account of the presence of tyre chains (figures 10-12) on some of the wheels, the presence of the chains being detected from individual wheel speeds and steering wheel angle.
Patent GB-2314108-A (GB)
Title: Traffic bollards
Inventor: LEIGH PETER JOHN
IPC: E01F9/615
Filed: 1996-06-12
Abstract: A traffic bollard has a pedestal of polygonal cross-section, flexible retroreflective strips (6) being located between narrow projections (7) running along the corners of the polygon. This construction protects the strips from impact. The bollard is resiliently deformable and can recover its shape after being run over.
Patent GB-2302400-A (GB)
Title: Underwater light fitting
Inventor: POGGI BRYAN
IPC: F21V19/04
Filed: 1995-05-22
Abstract: An underwater light fitting suitable for niche mounting in swimming pools comprises a housing (1) consisting of a casing (12) and a light transmissive portion in the form of a lens (10). Inside the housing there is a bulb (14) mounted on a connection member (16). The casing (12) includes a removable portion (31) which may be removed from the remainder of the casing (12) to allow easy access to, and thus facilitate replacement of, the bulb (14), without necessitating removal of the lens (10). A seal, preferably in the form of a resilient reusable O-ring (35) may be provided between the removable portion (31) and the remainder of the casing (12). In use, the light fitting is connected to a power source by a power transmission cable (3), and a wet-mateable connection (not shown) is provided in the cable (3) enabling the whole housing (1) to be removed to any convenient location for maintenance. The light fitting may include a reflector (15) which may be adjustable so as to allow control over the direction of light emitted from the fitting.
Patent GB-2320264-A (GB)
Title: Connecting structure for reinforcement bars
Inventor: TAI HSIU-LAN
IPC: E04C5/16
Filed: 1996-12-13
Abstract: A connecting structure for steel reinforcement bars 1 which are to be interconnected requires a male connector 2 and a female connector 3 to be friction welded to a flat planar end surface 11 of each steel bar, respectively. An external thread 21 and an internal thread 31 are provided on the male and female connectors, respectively. The connectors are connected to the steel bars by clamping and rotating them at high speed against the bars to effect friction welding.
Patent GB-2308383-A (GB)
Title: Emulsion middle distillate fuel composition
Inventor: SCHWAB SCOTT DANIEL
IPC: C10L1/22
Filed: 1996-12-13
Abstract: A fuel composition comprises a water-in-oil emulsion containing a hydrocarbonaceous middle distillate fuel and about 1 to 40 volume percent water, and an emission reducing amount of at least one fuel-soluble organic nitrate ignition improver e.g. 2-ethylhexyl nitrate to provide a reduction in exhaust emissions. Fuel is particularly diesel type.
Patent GB-968592-A (GB)
IPC: B29B7/74
Abstract: 968,592. Mixing apparatus; spray-producers. MINNESOTA MINING & MANUFACTURING CO. Oct. 19, 1960, No. 35878/60. Headings B1C and B2F. Fluid materials are mixed by passage through a roller bearing 17, 18, 19, 20, Figs. 5 and 6, the bearing surfaces of the races 17, 20 defining the mixing chamber. The device is incorporated in a spraygun, Fig. 3, having inlet passages 33, 34 for the materials to be mixed and an outlet orifice 24. The inner race 17 is mounted on a shaft 16 driven by a compressed air motor M; more than one such roller bearing assembly may be mounted in series, see Fig. 8 (not shown). The component materials are supplied in predetermined proportions by pumps P, P<SP>1</SP> operated by a common shaft, see Fig. 1 (not shown) and are admitted by valve 58, 59 (which may be of different sizes according to the relative flows of the materials) controlled by the trigger of the gun. The trigger may also control an air valve 69, see Fig. 4 (not shown) to admit air under pressure to the annular chamber and orifice 25, 26 in the nozzle to atomize the mixture, and there may be air passages 27 to form a fan-shaped spray. The air valve 69 may open before and close after the valves 58, 59 so that the trigger may be partly released to stop the flow of fluid materials while maintaining a purging air blast. Valve 59 may also be arranged to open before and close after valve 58 and used to flush the gun with solvent.
Patent GB-2323233-A (GB)
Title: Compensating for video signal distortion produced by document scanning movement in a digital scanner
Inventor: CHIEN CHUN-TSAI
IPC: H04N1/403
Filed: 1997-03-13
Abstract: In a digital scanning system wherein a CCD 402 scans a moving document, the resulting video signal being amplified 404, A/D converted 406 and stored in a RAM 408, distortion of the video sinal caused by the document movement is compensated by moving distortion compensation apparatus 410. This compensation apparatus may be formed by software or hardware and includes a recursive operation. The compensation is derived from a scanning sample function and can be regarded as a band-pass filter in the scanning moving direction. The arrangement increases the MTF (Modulation transfer Function), resulting in more accurate reproduced images.
Patent GB-2314282-A (GB)
Title: Wire mesh filter
Inventor: RICHARD BENNETT M
IPC: B01D29/15
Filed: 1996-03-25
Abstract: A filter is provided which combines a woven wire mesh (14) over a supporting body. The supporting body is typically a metal perforated tube which provides fluid communication between the well bore and the production equipment string. The woven wire mesh (14) acts as a filter to prevent the influx of sand particles (30), provides openings oriented at various angles relative to its surface, so that some area is available for fluid entry even when particulate matter is lodged on the surface above an opening, provides interior channels that allow fluid to travel from one location on the mesh surface to another location over an opening into the supporting body, and does not provide "straight-through" openings, thus forcing the fluid to make multiple turns (28) to pass through the mesh, thereby dissipating the fluid's energy and increases the mesh's erosion resistance. When particulate matter accumulates on the mesh's surface, the resulting particle cake remains porous, heightening the filter's resistance to plugging.
Patent GB-2321101-A (GB)
Title: Corrugated plate
Inventor: KOBAYASHI HISASHI
IPC: B21D53/04
Filed: 1997-12-08
Abstract: A metallic corrugated plate for use as the cooling inner fin of a heat exchanger has an end ridge with a ridge bending angle # which is smaller than the ridge bending angle # of the remainder of the plate. The radius R of the end ridge may be smaller than the radius r of the other ridges. The angle # is preferably not more than 75% of the angle #. Ideally # is about 26‹ and # is about 51‹.
Patent GB-2333589-A (GB)
Title: Illuminated optical switch
Inventor: FRICKE JOACHIM
IPC: H03K17/968
Filed: 1998-01-24
Abstract: An electronic user operated switch arrangement has a housing, an LED 30 and a light detector 40 arranged at opposite ends of an optical path. A switch actuator 50 is mounted in the optical path between the LED 30 and the detector 40 and is moveable between a first position and a second position. The switch actuator includes an illumination arrangement for providing light from the LED to illuminate 65 the switch arrangement, and a blocking member arranged to selectively block the light to the detector in dependence upon the position of the switch actuator.
Patent GB-2324582-A (GB)
Title: A viscous fluid operated friction coupling with slow-speed manoeuvring characteristics
Inventor: GASCH CHRISTIAN
IPC: F16D35/02
Filed: 1998-04-24
Abstract: A coupling comprises a pressure generating unit 11 having a chamber 23 filled with viscous fluid and a friction coupling unit 12 actuated by a piston 22 mounted in chamber 23. So as to improve slow-speed manoeuvring, a preload (T o , fig 2) is supplied to friction plates 35, 37, when piston 22 is in its rest position, by plate spring 41 which loads pressure plate 39, thereby trapping the friction plates 35, 37 between the pressure plate 39 and second pressure plate 43. Relative rotation between rotor 28 and cover 18 leads to an increase in pressure, due to fluid shear in shear channel 31, and thus to a displacement of piston 22 and push rods 47 which initially releases the friction plates 35, 37 by removing the load applied by spring 41. This reduces torque (T 1,2 , fig 2) which remains constant, for a given speed deferential(# n1 , # n2 , fig 1), until air gaps 44, 45, between piston 22 and pressure plate 43 and between pressure plate 39 and cover 20, are bridged which forces the friction plates 35, 37 together, thereby increasing the torque as speed differential rises.
Patent GB-2324658-A (GB)
Title: A retractable antenna for a cellular telephone
Inventor: SULLIVAN JONATHAN JEE
IPC: H01Q1/24
Filed: 1996-12-12
Abstract: A retractable antenna (26) for use with a cellular telephone (10) wherein the retractable antenna (26) is removably mounted on the-upper end of the telephone. The retractable antenna (26) includes an antenna housing (56) which extends upwardly from the upper end of the telephone and which has a matching circuit provided therein. A helical radiator (58) is positioned in the antenna housing (56) and has its lower end operatively connected to the matching circuit (36). An elongated radiator (76) is selectively vertically movably positioned in the antenna housing (56) and the telephone and is movable between extended and retracted positions with respect to the antenna housing (56) and the telephone housing (10). The lower end of the elongated radiator (76) is electrically connected to the upper end of the helical radiator (58) when the elongated radiator (76) is in its extended position. The elongated radiator (76) is electrically disconnected from the helical radiator (58) when the elongated radiator (76) is in its retracted position. The matching circuit in the telephone housing (10) is operatively electrically connected to the telephone circuitry so that the antenna (26) serves as a 1/4 wave antenna when the elongated radiator (76) is in its retracted position and so that the antenna serves as 1/2 wave antenna when the elongated radiator (76) is in its extended position.
Patent GB-2330631-A (GB)
Title: Clutch pressure plate having slack adjuster
Inventor: WEIDINGER REINHOLD
IPC: F16D13/75
Filed: 1998-09-02
Abstract: A pressure plate module 10 comprises a backlash sensing arrangement having a ratchet wheel 36 which engages with a set of teeth 44 on an adjusting ring 32. The ratchet wheel 36 also has teeth 48 which are brought into and out of engagement with another set of teeth 50 by a slack detecting pin 52. When teeth 48, 50 are disengaged, by movement of the ratchet 36 in direction of arrow V, the adjusting ring 32 is rotated, for example, by a spring and due to engagement via oblique ramps with ring 30 the axial dimension of rings 30, 32 is enlarged, thereby taking up any slack. When slack occurs, the slack detecting pin 52 extends from housing 14 and abuts flywheel 12 so that it is pushed into recess 60, thereby displacing the ratchet 36, via disengaging portion 58, in the direction of arrow V. After slack adjustment, the ratchet 36 is returned to its locked position by centrifugal force.
Patent GB-2341984-A (GB)
Title: Mounting base for a removable head
Inventor: CAPALDI-TALLON ALAN
IPC: H02G3/14
Filed: 1998-09-25
Abstract: A mounting base (3), for example, a bezel assembly, which can be fixed, by means of screws (4), directly to a wall or ceiling, or to a conduit box (2), has cover members (5) movable between open position and closed positions. The open positions provide access to the screws so that the mounting base can be fitted or removed. The cover members are retained by the mounting base so that they can be moved between the open and closed positions without becoming detached. Each cover member is preferably hinged to the mounting base so that it can be pivoted away from the screw into the open position without becoming detached. The hinge preferably comprises a shell (8) and a pin (9), the shell being open to enable it to be fitted to the pin. A resilient tab (6) can be provided to snap fit the cover member to the base and secure it in the closed position, prior to fitting a removable head (1) to the base. The invention may be used in the field of fire detection to conceal screws to prevent vandalism or theft of a fire detector.
Patent GB-2331502-A (GB)
Title: Container for cosmetics
Inventor: CROSTA SERGIO
IPC: A45C13/00
Filed: 1998-11-20
Abstract: A container for doughy cosmetics comprises bowl (11) to accommodate a doughy product (22) and a lid fastened to the bowl (11), the bowl (11) being provided with a product check device in the form of a grid (13), submerged in the doughy product (22) in order to provide a support, and engaged with an inner side surface (17) of the bowl (11). The grid (13) is so engaged with the inner side surface (17) that it can be vertically shifted between an intermediate position and a position close to a bottom (24).
Patent GB-2331968-A (GB)
Title: Method and means for transporting wheelchairs
Inventor: RALPH JAMES MAIN
IPC: B60R9/06
Filed: 1998-12-01
Abstract: A box (10) is provided for use in transporting a wheelchair. The box (10) is mounted on the rear of a vehicle and includes a main body portion (11) within which a wheelchair can be contained. The box (10) has a door (12) which can be moved into an open position in which it acts as a ramp up which the wheelchair can be moved.
Patent GB-2344806-A (GB)
Title: AC traction power supply station
Inventor: SCHUETTE THORSTEN
IPC: B60M3/00
Filed: 1998-12-17
Abstract: The supply station comprises an electric power source 6 at a voltage lower than a desired catenary voltage, said electric power source being connected to a transformer 5 which is arranged to connect an auxiliary feeding line 3 to a catenary 1. The power source 6 may comprise a public grid, a DC-linked frequency and phase converter, an AC generator, a reactive power source such as a shunt capacitor, or an energy storage means.
Patent GB-985387-A (GB)
Abstract: 985, 387. Frequency spectrum analysis. DAIMLER-BENZ A.G., and H.LENNARTZ. March 27, 1963 [March 27, 1962], No. 12173/63. Heading G1U. In a method of analyzing the vibrations in a rotating or reciprocating device, the frequency of rotation or movement of the device and a signal from a vibration measuring instrument are recorded on a tape 1, Fig. 1; the frequency signal read by a head 2 is converted by a converter 5 into a D.C. voltage, proportional to the frequency, which is used to control a co-ordinate type indicator 7 and to control the frequency of an oscillator 10; and the oscillator output is mixed with the vibration signal from the head 3 in a ring modulator 11, the output of which passes through a filter 13 and detector 14 to the indicator 7. A calibrated potentiometer 9 allows adjustment of the frequency range of the vibrations selected, and a calibrated potentiometer 8 allows the setting of the indicator 7 to be altered. Delay in the converter 5 may be compensated for by off-setting the reading heads 2 and 3 or by including a delay device between the head 3 and modulator 11. The apparatus shown in Fig. 1 uses two tracks for the frequency and vibration signals respectively. The two signals can be recorded on a single track by modulating them before recording and separating them by filters after reading and before demodulating and processing the signals, Figs. 2 and 3 (not shown).
Patent GB-2333973-A (GB)
Title: Vacuum cleaner for vehicle exhaust emissions
Inventor: JOHNSTONE MALCOLM
IPC: F02B35/00
Filed: 1999-01-18
Abstract: Smoke particles and fumes issuing from a vehicle exhaust pipe 2 are removed by being sucked along extractor pipes 3 into an electrical vacuum appliance 6 containing a motor 5 and a filter, cleaned air being subsequently discharged through outlet pipe 7. The vacuum appliance is carried on the vehicle body and is switched on when required eg in town centres or in low speed heavy traffic. The filter may be in the form of a bag, which may be replaced through a door (not shown) in the body of the appliance. The extractor pipes 3 may have their ends covered with steel mesh, or may be built into the exhaust pipe 2 (Fig 2, not shown)
Patent GB-2334675-A (GB)
Title: Intumescent ventilator
Inventor: KOVACS LAURENCE KEITH
IPC: A62C2/06
Filed: 1999-02-23
Abstract: Ventilator e.g. for mounting in a door or wall, has a grille 14 mounted on the outer face of a structure, the grille having on it's face proximal to the structure a mount 28, 32 for an intumescent member 34.
Patent GB-2347376-A (GB)
Title: Reciprocal wrench
Inventor: LIU TSAI FA
IPC: B25B13/08
Filed: 1999-03-01
Abstract: In a reciprocal wrench with an opening (31) to receive a hexagonal nut (40) each of the inner sides, i.e. the clamping surfaces of both jaws to the opening is provided with a mound (34, 35) for force application, a binding surface (36) is provided below the mound (34, 35) on one side of the jaw and an additional holding mound (38) in conjunction with the application of force is provided on the root of the opening (31) along a central line of the main portion (20) closer to the side of force application so that four surfaces are able to synchronously apply the force on the hexagonal nut.
Patent GB-2351082-A (GB)
Title: Synthesis of Cyclic Substituted Amidines
Inventor: SCHOTTEN THEO
IPC: C07D239/06
Filed: 1999-06-18
Abstract: A a process for preparing a compound of Formula II, <EMI ID=1.1 HE=31 WI=49 LX=711 LY=1080 TI=CF> <PC>comprising contacting a compound of the Formula I: <EMI ID=1.2 HE=35 WI=47 LX=721 LY=1439 TI=CF> <PC>with a silylating agent or for preparing a compound of Formula II': <EMI ID=1.3 HE=27 WI=33 LX=657 LY=1951 TI=CF> <PC>comprising contacting a compound of the Formula I': <EMI ID=1.4 HE=22 WI=26 LX=711 LY=2367 TI=CF> <PC>with a silylating reagent. In the formulae R, R<SB>1</SB>-R<SB>10</SB>, R<SB>1</SB>', R<SB>1</SB>'' are substituents; n, n'', n''', n'''' are O or integers; E,X,Y,Y',Y'' are bonds or linker groups.
Patent GB-2337263-A (GB)
Title: Glyphosate resistant transgenic plants
Inventor: MANNERLOEF MARIE
IPC: A01H5/10
Filed: 1998-10-29
Abstract: The present invention relates to transgenic sugar beet plants which due to the expression of cp4/epsps enzyme activity tolerate treatment with about 4 to about 18 liters Roundup« per hectare. The plants can be characterized by this specific integration site. The invention further relates to seeds obtained from said plants and a method for producing said plants.
Patent GB-2341235-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for referencing potentiometric measurements of a liquid
Inventor: SANDIFER JAMES ROY
IPC: G01N27/414
Filed: 1999-08-20
Abstract: The apparatus includes a body 10 having a first portion 18 for immersion in a liquid L which can be a photographic emulsion. An ISFET 22 is located in the first portion 18 in a buffer solution 20. A liquid junction 24 provides fluid communication between the buffer solution and the liquid. The ISFET may be a DuraFET, and the buffer solution preferably has substantially the same pH as the liquid, and particularly in the range 4 - 5.5. The apparatus may be used with a second ISFET 32 which is immersed in the liquid, and a common solution ground 34, to determine the pH of the solution from the potentiometric reading of meter 26. The apparatus may incorporate further, ion selective, electrodes for measuring silver concentration in the solution.
Patent GB-2356396-A (GB)
Title: A metallic article having a chromised coating and a glass coating
Inventor: BETTRIDGE DAVID FREDERICK
IPC: C23D3/00
Filed: 1999-10-07
Abstract: A metallic article (10) has a protective coating (22) comprises a chromised coating (24) diffused into the surface of the metallic article (10) and a glass coating (26) on the chromised coating (24). The glass coating (26) comprises a silicate glass, preferably having a chromium oxide filler. The glass coating (26) preferably comprises a boron titanate silicate glass having a chromium oxide filler. The protective coating provides oxidation and sulphidation resistance, and may be applied to the shank and root of a turbine blade.
Patent HU-T63448-A (HU)
Title: Process for improving wet coating capacity of dyes
Inventor: FASANO DAVID MICHAEL
IPC: C09D5/00
Filed: 1992-12-19
Abstract: A method for increasing the hiding power of a wet paint film is disclosed. The method includes admixing a wet paint and at least one transient colorant in an amount that is effective to increase the wet hiding power. The paint is then applied to a substrate. Suitable transient colorants must diminish in colour during or after the drying of the paint film containing the transient colorant.
Patent HU-T67470-A (HU)
Title: Integrated process for producing crystalline fructose
Inventor: LILLARD DONALD W
IPC: A23L1/09
Filed: 1993-04-19
Abstract: During fructose crystallization by cooling a fructose solution, the rate of cooling is first reduced and then increased again. The reduced cooling rate is preferably in the temperature band 46 +/- 3 DEG C and this controlled cooling results in an improved product. The process preferably uses the mother liquor remaining after crystallization for the preparation of a liquid phase sweetener.
Patent HU-T69923-A (HU)
Title: Food product in the from of an overrun mass, process of maiking it, and food product containing it as a filling
Inventor: CHABLAIX RENE EUGENE
IPC: A23P30/40
Filed: 1993-12-20
Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for making a food product which may be provided in the form of a whipped mass and which is capable of being used as a dressing in a composite product consisting, moreover, of an oven product. The invention also relates to the whipped food product obtained and the final composite product.