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Patent FI-20030090-A (FI)
Inventor: BLOMQVIST MIKKO
IPC: H04W4/021
Filed: 2003-01-21
Abstract: A method for activating a location-based function, at least one item of position data is determined for the function as a condition for activating the function. A device in a wireless communication network examines at least one property of the network to decide whether positioning of the device ( 1 ) is conducted. Likewise, a system may provide a location-based function, for which at least one item of position data is determined as a condition for activating the function. A program in which the method is applied is also provided.
Patent FR-1196131-A (FR)
IPC: B21B35/14
Filed: 1958-05-14
Granted: 1959-11-20
Abstract: 846,736. Universal joints. UNITED ENGINEERING & FOUNDRY CO. April 11, 1957, No. 11918/57. Class 80 (2). A universal drive coupling between two members 24, 32, for connecting a pair of shafts such as a roll neck 12 and its driving-spindle 16, similarly coupled to a gear-shaft 15 in a rolling - mill, is provided with a spring 39 which, when one of the coupling members 24, 32 is disconnected from its shaft, causes complementary surfaces on the coupling-members to engage and hold the said members axially aligned. This facilitates changing a roll 12, which latter has a slip-out drive connection with the coupling-member 24 by complementary flats 25. The coupling comprises spherically-crowned teeth 34 on the member 32 engaging longer straight teeth in the member 24. The spring 39 is mounted in a recess in the member 32 and presses axially outwards on a plate 42 having a spherical face bearing on a wear-plate in a plate 47 carried by the coupling-member 24. When the roll 12 is slipped out of the coupling-member 24, expansion of the spring 39 presses the rearface of the coupling-member 32 against a surface 53 carried by the coupling-member 24, thus maintaining alignment of the coupling- members 24, 32. The coupling-member 32 is welded at 35 to the spindle 16 and a seal 54 retains lubricant in the coupling.
Patent GB-1047457-A (GB)
IPC: B41B27/28
Abstract: 1,047,457. Printing - surfaces. D. G. KINDERSLEY. Sept. 25, 1963 [June 25, 1962], No. 24362/62. Heading B6C. In a method of spacing characters for use in printing processes, the widths of an arbitrary alphabet are first obtained. The widest character, e.g. W; is taken, an O is placed next to it and an I next to the O, the I being moved until the O appears to be midway between the W and the I. A second O and I, spaced apart the same amount as the first O and I, are placed on the other side of the W with the I outside, and moved as a unit until the O appears to be midway between the I and the W. The distance between the centres of the O's is measured. A third O is now placed between the two OI sets, which are moved until each O in the set appears to be midway between its respective I and the central O. The distance between the centres of the outer O is measured. The difference between the two measurements is the width of the W. The widths of the other characters in the alphabet are simultaneously obtained and tabulated. For each arbitrary character, a light value is now obtained. A photographic negative 18 of the character is placed in an assembly comprising a light source 10, a frosted glass plate 11, a light wedge 19, the negative, and an opal screen 12 covering an opening in a box 13 provided with a light responsive cell 14 and a galvanometer 15. The wedge is a glass plate or film which allows light to pass through in proportion to a predetermined power of the distance, or the lateral distance, from the centre of the plate. A hinged plate 21 is used to cover each half, or each quarter, of the wedge in turn, the negative being adjusted until the amount of light registered by the galvanometer is the same for each half or quarter. The plate 21 is removed and the galvanometer gives a reading for the light value of the character. The values for all the characters are placed on a graph against the corresponding widths. For the manufacture of character bearing faces of another set of characters, the light value of each character of said set is read using the same apparatus, and the required width is read off from the graph.
Patent GB-1052310-A (GB)
IPC: F16L15/02
Abstract: 1,052,310. Pipe joints. JOSEPH LUCAS (INDUSTRIES) Ltd. Nov. 19, 1965 [Oct. 21, 1964], No. 42868/64. Heading F2G. A pipe coupling for connecting a pair of pipes and of the type wherein the effective length of the coupling can be adjusted to suit the distance between the ends of said pipes comprises first and second parts 10 and 11 having threaded ends 10a and 11afor attachment to said pipe ends and interengageable threaded portions 10b and 11bwhereby the axial adjustment between said parts can be effected, a sealing ring 14 carried on the first part and engageable with the bore 11cof the second part, a locknut 18 and washer 19 for retaining the parts in the axially adjusted position, and a detachable member 17 carried by the first part and engageable in a recess of the second part to limit the extent of the relative axial adjustment of the said parts. Said detachable member is a semicircular spring slip having prongs 17a which project into the recess of the second part and which is arranged to abut a shoulder 16 prior to screw-threads 10b and 11bdisengaging.
Patent GB-1052350-A (GB)
IPC: A61F2/66
Abstract: 1,052,350. Artificial limbs. R. V. GARCIA. Oct. 12, 1965 [Oct. 23, 1964], No. 43228/65,. Heading A5R. An artificial limb comprises an articulated supporting structure enclosed in an elastic cover having an outer contour resembling that of a natural limb, the cover urging the supporting structure into extended position and resisting its collapse. An artificial leg comprises a thigh portion 64, 89, 90 which is adjustable in length, connected by a knee joint 60 to a shin portion 40 which is also adjustable in length and is connected by an ankle joint to a foot plate 5. A stump socket 92 is provided. The elastic cover is made of rubber or polyurethane foam having a surface resilience substantially equal to that of natural muscle and is covered in skincoloured latex. The cover is applied around the supporting structure in a two-part mould 100. The knee joint (Figs. 6 to 8, not shown), comprises spaced lugs 68, 69 on the skin portion and a cylindrical member 65 on the thigh portion which is pivotal in aligned holes 70, 71 in the lugs. A pin 81 in the cylindrical member is retractable against a spring 84 (Fig. 9, not shown) by a pull cord 85, which extends through the thigh portion and stump socket to the exterior of the limb, to permit free movement of the knee joint. In projected position, the pin 81 engages one of a series of holes 77 in a sector member 76 located between the lugs to lock the knee joint in an extended or desired angular position. The ankle joint (Fig. 4, not shown) comprises a sphere 42 on the skin portion which engages a hemispherical cup 21 attached to the foot plate, universal movement of the sphere in the cup being limited by the edges of an oval aperture in a cap 30 which retains the sphere in the cup.
Patent GB-1053423-A (GB)
Abstract: 1,053,423. Typewriters &c. DURA CORPORATION. May 27, 1963 [Oct. 2, 1962], No. 8786/66. Divided out of 1,053,422. Heading B6F. Machines with types upon spherical surfaces; power-assisted type actions; record controlled power inputs; printing and perforating machines; combination type setting mechanisms.-A typewriter having a spherical type head mounted on a carriage for reciprocal movement in letter spacing direction is provided with a punch mechanism 72, Fig. 1 (not shown), on the righthand side of the frame for reproduction of the operation on a tape and a photo-electric reader 74 mounted on the left-hand side of the frame. The power-assisted type actions and combination type setting mechanisms are identical with those described in the Specification 976,473. The type selecting actions include bails 176 . . . 176e, Fig. 5, each one of which is associated with respective micro-switches 200 . . . 200e operated by switch-actuating arms 206 on movement of the bails. The microswitches energize respective solenoids 460 . . . 460g, Fig. 18, whose associated latches 442 release the punch interposers 424 into operative relationship with punches mounted in a bracket 398 to punch a tape 78 guided in a slot 404. The punches are operated by nose portions 427 of selected interposers 424 all of the interposers being displaced upwardly by a common camshaft 362. The perforated tape 78 is scanned by the photo-electric reader including diodes 622, Fig. 30, receiving light from light bulbs 618 through a light band concentrating bar 620, the light signals generated in accordance with the perforations being applied to transistor circuits, associated with the diodes, which amplify the signals and apply them to respective solenoids 662 . . . 662e, Fig. 31 (not shown), which on actuation release interposers 633 . . . 634e, cooperating with bails 176 . . . 176e, to actuate the type selecting mechanism in accordance with the coded perforation. Back-spacing, line-spacing, space-bar caseshift and carriage-return key actions.-Depression of a functional key lever displaces a pawl 278, Fig. 8 (not shown), whose end 280 engages the end 282 of an interposer 270 and releases a latch 276, pivotally mounted on the interposer, to allow the interposer to snap forward and engage the actuating lug 254 of a clutch release arm 243 by a lug 288 on the interposer. Rotation of the cam 110 by the half-revolution clutch displaces a cam follower 265 which operates a bail 267 engaging in turn a functional link 269.
Patent GB-1226044-A (GB)
IPC: F16C29/00
Filed: 1968-11-15
Abstract: 1,226,044. Measuring-apparatus. CARL ZEISS JENA VEB. Nov.15, 1968, No.54224/68. Heading G1M. [Also in Division B3] An end-supported bar of circular cross-section for guiding a slide (which may be mounted on rollers) in a precision measuring instrument or machine has a medial portion 2 and adjacent portions which taper towards the ends 3, 4 the radii r 1  and r 2  at the middle and ends respectively being chosen so that their difference is equal or approximately equal to the magnitude f of the maximum sag due to the weight of the bar and the load of the displaceable slide. When the slide is mounted on rollers, a modification is required if the plane of symmetry of the rollers is inclined to the vertical plane containing the axis of the bar 1.
Patent GB-1227453-A (GB)
IPC: C07C47/26
Filed: 1968-08-07
Abstract: 1,227,453. Esters of formylcrotyl alcohol. BADISCHE ANILIN- & SODA-FABRIK A.G. 7 Aug., 1968 [8 Aug., 1967], No. 37661/68. Heading C2C. Carboxylic esters of #-formylerotyl alcohol are prepared by re-arranging the carboxylic ester, acetal, or acylate of 2-formyl-2-hydroxy butene-(3) at an elevated temperature in the presence of metallic copper, a copper (I) or a copper (II) compound or a mixture thereof. The products are hydrolysed if necessary and examples describe the use of copper powder, copper (II) oxide, and copper acetate during the rearrangement of 1,1 -dimethoxy-2-methyl-2- acetoxybutene-(3) to #-formylerotyl acetate.
Patent GB-1232682-A (GB)
IPC: B29C70/82
Filed: 1968-05-17
Abstract: 1,232,682. Securing wire into glass. W. BETHGE. 17 May, 1968 [20 May, 1967], No. 23734/68. Heading C1M. [Also in Division H5] Apparatus for applying a thread, e.g. a wire, tape, ribbon or lace to a thermo-softening material in the manufacture of thin electrical conductors, e.g. radiant heating elements or heating rings, comprises a thread paying out device 1 having means for heating a thread guide 19 having a sliding base 25 which locally softens the material and immediately thereafter presses the thread into the material, the heating means having an unheated upper section 3 mounted in a sleeve-like support 4 and a lower section carrying a cover sleeve provided with an extension 12 through which heat is transferred to the sliding base 25. The heating means comprises a cylindrical heating element 2 which transmits heat through a central pin to a wire guide 19. A spring presses the device into the direction of travel and its inclination of 80 degrees to the plane of the carrier is adjusted by means of a set screw. A distance regulator 32 controls the lifting and lowering of the mounting support of the device and the regulator is provided with a spring-loaded tracing foot 33. Wire, tape, ribbon or lace is fed to the device from a reel 44. The device is reciprocable by an electrically controllable drive (not shown) along a guide 41 (Fig. 7). An additional drive (not shown) pivots the paying out device through 180 degrees at the end of each run and a variable drive 42 moves the carrier 43 in a transverse direction to obtain a rectangular or undulating application of the thread. As the paying out device moves over the carrier 43, the wire is pressed into the locally softened surface of the material. The heat is adjusted to suit the speed of application and the properties of the thermo-softening material.
Patent GB-1232733-A (GB)
IPC: G03B31/06
Filed: 1969-09-19
Abstract: 1,232,733. Audio-visual apparatus. M. I. GLASS, [trading as MARVIN GLASS & ASSOCIATES]. 19 Sept., 1969, No. 46307/69. Heading G5R. An individually mounted transparency 35 having a magnetic recording surface 49 on the mounting is carried by a slide 65 into a projector in which a playback head 47 moves over the recording surface 49 without interfering with the projection of the transparency. As shown, the head 47, which may be used also for recording, is driven to and fro by means of a cardioid groove 160 in a motor-driven cam 156 and is lifted to the next track at the end of each traverse by a spring-driven escapement 169 released by the engagement of a lever 174 or 176 with a stop 184 or 186. Position switches (201 and 202, Figs. 4, 5 and 11) extinguish a recording-mode indicator lamp (209, Fig. 9) as the head 47 reaches the uppermost track and switch off the drive motor as the head reaches the end of its travel. A bulk eraser (102, Figs. 4, 5 and 11) is mounted on one wall of the projector housing.
Patent GB-1233254-A (GB)
IPC: G03C1/12
Filed: 1968-11-15
Abstract: 1,233,254. Photographic 'litho type' silver halide emulsion. EASTMAN KODAK CO. Nov.15, 1968 [Nov.15, 1967], No.54233/68. Heading G2C. A light-sensitive silver halide emulsion, the halide of which comprises at least 50 mole per cent chloride contains both (1) a merocyanine dye having a rhodanine, 2-thiohydantoin or 2-thio-2, 4-oxazolidinedione first nucleus carrying a carboxymethyl or carboxyphenyl group on a hetero nitrogen atom and joined by the 5-carbon atom through a double bond, or dimethine link to heterocyclic nucleus and (2) a water-soluble block copolymer of polyoxypropylene and polyoxyethylene in which the polyoxypropylene portion has an average molecular weight from 800 to 3, 000 of which the polyoxyethylene units constitute from 10% to 70% by weight and in which the main polymer chain may contain up to 15% by weight of silicon atoms. The merocyanine dye preferably has the formula wherein m and d are each 0 or 1, L is a methine linkage optionally substituted with a methyl or phenyl group, R<SP>1</SP> is alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl or substituted aryl, R<SP>2</SP> is methyl, carboxymethyl phenyl, carboxyphenyl, or alkoxy-carbonylmethyl, Q is O, S or Se or = NR<SP>3</SP> (imino) wherein R<SP>3</SP> is methyl, phenyl, carboxymethyl or alkoxycarbonylmethyl subject to R<SP>3</SP> being (a) phenyl or methyl when R<SP>2</SP> is carboxymethyl, (b) carboxymethyl when R<SP>2</SP> is phenyl or methyl, (c) alkoxycarbonylmethyl when R<SP>2</SP> is carboxyphenyl and (d) carboxyphenyl when R<SP>2</SP> is alkoxymethyl, and R<SP>2</SP> is a carboxymethyl group when Q is not an imino group, and Z represents the atoms necessary to complete a 5- or 6- membered heterocyclic nitrogencontaining nucleus. The water-soluble block copolymer may be as described in British Patent Specification 1, 092, 814 and be of the formula: wherein Y is an organic radical of valency x, x and n being integers such that the molecular weight of the block copolymer, exclusive of Y, E and R is from 800 to 3,000, E is a polyoxyethylene chain and R is H, alkyl, alkylcarbonyl, arylcarbonyl or alkarylcarbonyl. In the examples the copolymer is No.5 of 1,092,814 wherein Y is derived from 1, 2- propanediol, the average number of polyoxypropylene units is 30% and the percentage polyoxyethylene by weight of the block copolymer is 40. The water-soluble block copolymer (2) is a development restrainer and it is found that they give effective development restraint at a much lower level of restrainer than is normally seen with conventional polyethylene glycol restrainers. There is apparently an interaction between the block copolymers and the merocyanine dyes. This interaction results in higher contrast, higher dot quality over a wide development range, more evenly spaced time-development H and D curves, speed loss due to addition of restrainer being regained and improved compatibility with high sulphite content developers.
Patent GB-1239100-A (GB)
IPC: F02F1/42
Filed: 1969-07-04
Abstract: 1,239,100. Cylinders. MOTOREN-WERKE MANNHEIM A.G. July 4, 1969 [July 6, 1968], No. 33941/69. Heading F1B. A cylinder head for a compression-ignition I.C. engine comprises an inlet duct for delivering air in a swirl-inducing manner into the working space of a cylinder through two valve-controlled ports 2, 3. The duct receives the air through a single port 1 in a lateral face of the cylinder head and delivers the air to the ports 2, 3 through two branches 9, 11. The upstream end of the branch 9 is provided with a segment or crescent-shaped lip 17 and the branch 11 is directed as shown, to cause the air to pass through the ports 2, 3 into the working space in a swirl-inducing manner. The lip 17 is inclined with respect to the longitudinal axis 21 of the associated valve, and the distance from axis 21 to the nearest point of the lip is between 0.25 and 0.45 times the inner diameter of the associated valve seat.
Patent GB-1250893-A (GB)
IPC: A47G33/06
Filed: 1968-02-21
Abstract: 1,250,893. Artificial tree. H. WALTER. Feb. 21, 1969 [Feb. 21, 1968], No.8351/68. Heading A4X. An artificial tree comprises a plurality of tiers 3 and a plurality of flexible links 4, e.g. cords or S-shaped links, which are used to interconnect the tiers and to suspend the tiers either from the top of a pole 1 or from a ceiling. The tiers may be the turns of a continuous spiral or each tier may be separate and have a circular, polygonal, elliptical, rectangular or square shape. The tree preferably has tiers of the same configuration which diminish in size towards the upper end of the tree to enable packing of the tiers one within the other in a horizontal plane.
Patent GB-1252918-A (GB)
IPC: C08K5/57
Filed: 1968-11-22
Abstract: 1,252,918. Process for rendering articles resistant to biological attack. M. & T. INTERNATIONAL N.V. 22 Nov., 1968 [22 Nov., 1967], No. 55595/68. Heading A5E. A process for rendering an article resistant to biological attack comprises positioning said article adjacent to a transmitter medium containing a biologically-active triorganotin compound, and maintaining said transmitter medium at 0 to 150‹C. in a confined space for a sufficient length of time for at least a portion of said tin compound to be transferred to at least a portion of said article. The transmitter medium is defined as any material which may be physically or chemically combined with the tin compound and gives slow release thereof, e.g. the transmitter medium may be coated, impregnated or co-reacted and may be a polymer in film, sheet or rod form, or may be an inert material such as wood, plastic rubber or a metal (e.g. a plate). The article to be treated may be or contain leather, paper, cloth, wood, metal, plastic, glass, plaster or seeds, e.g. textiles, leather shoes, paintings, photographs, antiques, books, lenses or electrical equipment.
Patent GB-1252971-A (GB)
IPC: G01T1/204
Filed: 1969-02-05
Abstract: 1,252,971. Scintillation counting. NUCLEAR-CHICAGO CORP. Feb. 5, 1969 [Feb. 8, 1968], No.6146/69. Heading G1A. In an automatic liquid scintillation counting system including means for inserting into a chamber 16 Fig.1 containing a photo-multiplier, a sample 10 of a source in a scintillating liquid from a succession of samples of varying quench and for removing the same, and means for producing a measuring count and a conversion efficiency correction count which is subtracted from the measuring count to compensate for quench variation, means are provided for interrupting the testing of samples and introducing a standard source of light scintillation into the chamber at intervals shorter than the time required for substantial gain drift, for detecting shifts from a norm, of the amplitude spectrum of the photomultiplier resulting from the insertion of the standard source, and for altering the tranducer gain to return the amplitude spectrum to its norm and causing resumption of the measurement of samples. The conversion efficiency count is provided by a rack and pinion 32 moving a gamma source 26 to a position 30 beneath an inserted sample, a shutter 20 being provided to exclude ambient light. The gain adjustment is achieved by varying the high voltage supply 36 Fig. 4 to the photo-multipliers 18 in response to the departure of a pulse amplitude spectrum from its normal position when a standard vial or an alpha source and scintillating crystal are inserted in the chamber. The pulses from the photomultipliers 18 after summing may be directed by a switch 42 to a sample measuring and/or quench correcting circuit or to the automatic photomultiplier gain control circuit. In the last named, the spectrum amplitude shift is detected by discriminator 58, 60, 62, the difference count in the pulses passing between the level of discriminators 58-60 being compared with that of those passing between discriminators 60-62 and the difference itself being compared in 76 with a pre-set error count from a unit 78 the count of which is altered according to the elapsed standardisation time by a timer 80. The photomultiplier supply is adjusted by a digital to analogue converter 96 in accordance with the positions of bi-stable circuits FF1-FF4 which respond to the output of comparator 76. The correction effected may vary according to the time taken by the error count to reach the preset limit, or it may have one of two values according to the direction of the error relative to the error in the last correction. The limit count fed to comparator 76 may be continuously varied with time, or may be stepped and a correction signal is arranged to stop the count in the up-down counter 70 and to reset it for a further gain standardization check. Comparison in unit 76 may be analogue or digital. Testing of samples may be automatically resumed at the conclusion of a gain adjustment. The gain may be standardized automatically between successive samples or may be effected by manual switching as desired. The sample measurements and external standardization counts may be printed out or fed to a computer.
Patent GB-1258336-A (GB)
IPC: A45D2/12
Filed: 1969-04-14
Abstract: 1,258,336. Treatment of hair. J. FARRELL. Nov. 27, 1969 [April 14, 1969], No. 18971/69. Heading A4V. A method for the treatment of hair comprises the use of a scroll shaped member Fig. 1, provided with suitable means to facilitate uncoiling. These means may comprise a "U" sectioned bar 2 which fits over the end of a frame 6, Fig. 3 the strip 1 then being uncoiled and held by the clamps 7. Hair is then laid on the strip 1 and brushed with an appropriate lotion. On releasing the clamp 7 the strip 1 coils up, the hair being coiled simultaneously within it. The clamp 7 may be a multiple unit allowing several strips 1 to be held simultaneously. Alternatively instead of the clamp 7 releasable detent teeth may be used to hold the strips 1 Fig. 4 (not shown).