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Patent GB-2323914-A (GB)
Title: Installation of wall-mounted boilers
Inventor: BOSWORTH JOHN FREDERICK MICHAE
IPC: F24H9/06
Filed: 1997-02-10
Abstract: In a method of installing a domestic heating boiler on a wall, which boiler has a vertical back-plate (10) with a flue gas exit 13 therein, a generally horizontal hole (not shown) is formed through the wall, and then the boiler is mounted on the wall with the flue gas exit 13 in register with the hole in the wall. From the front of the boiler, a flanged flue pipe 37 is inserted through the back-plate flue gas exit 13 and into the hole so that the flange 38 engages the back-plate internally of the boiler, the joint between the flange 38 and the back-plate (10) then being sealed, with fire resistant cement and/or mechanical fasteners. The outer end of the flue pipe 37 is connected to a conventional flue. Hot gases produced by combustion of an upwardly directed oil mist flow upwardly in a labyrinthine path (Fig 1) heating water in a surrounding jacket, which includes a wedge-shaped section.
Patent GB-2310550-A (GB)
Title: Panel-mounted connectors for relays
Inventor: DENT PETER
IPC: H01R13/74
Filed: 1997-02-12
Abstract: A panel 1 supports several relay bases 10 into which respective relays 40 (fig. 6, not shown) can be plugged. The panel 1 has elongate apertures 2 with slots 3 and 4 down each side. Each relay base 10 is retained, on the rear side of the panel 1, by means of two resilient beams 30, 31 having outwardly-projecting catches 32 that project through the apertures 2 and overlap the front surface. Lugs 22, 23 and 25 on opposite sides of each base engage in the slots 3 and 4 to prevent movement of the bases along the apertures 2. The relays 40 have contact pins 41 that are inserted in sockets 12 in the bases 10. The relays 40 are secured on the bases 10 by screws 42 that engage screw holes 20, 21 and 24 in the bases aligned with the slots. When mounted, a part of each relay 40 lies between the catches 32, thereby preventing them being displaced inwardly sufficiently to clear the edges of the aperture 2.
Patent GB-2324292-A (GB)
Title: Locating stacked containers
Inventor: COPE ANDREW CHRISTOPHER
IPC: B65D71/02
Filed: 1997-04-19
Abstract: In order to assist in safely applying a retaining band around a stack of containers, particularly when the stack is too large for a workman to reach around, the container 10 is provided with an eye 36 in the rim 32. The eye 36 receives the band or strap 38 to retain it in position relative to the container 10 while the workman feeds the band around the remainder of the stack. The band 38 may pass around containers in adjacent stacks which may be located on a pallet.
Patent GB-2328738-A (GB)
Title: Radiation field analyzer
Inventor: JENKINS RICHARD MICHAEL
IPC: G01S17/89
Filed: 1997-06-16
Abstract: A radiation field analyzer 10 provides means for analyzing the spatial mode spectrum of radiation received from a scene. In a multimode waveguide embodiment, light from a laser 24 is directed towards a scene through an alumina waveguide structure 12. A portion of the laser light is directed towards a mode generator 28 which selectively converts the laser radiation into one of a series of modes. Laser light returning from the scene is mixed with the light from the mode generator to produce interference signals. These signals are measured by a detector 34 and analysed by a programmed computer 36. By sequentially altering the mode generated by the generator 28 and analysing the resulting signals, a spectrum of the modes returning from the scene is obtained.
Patent GB-2313479-A (GB)
Title: Electroluminescent device comprising porous silicon
Inventor: CANHAM LEIGH TREVOR
IPC: H01L33/34
Filed: 1996-03-15
Abstract: An electroluminescent device (10) comprises a porous silicon region (22) adjacent a bulk silicon region (20), together with a top electrical contact (24) of transparent indium tin oxide and a bottom electrical contact (26) of aluminium. The device includes a heavily doped region (28) to provide an ohmic contact. The porous silicon region (22) is fabricated by anodizing through an ion-implanted surface layer of the bulk silicon. The silicon remains unannealed between the ion-implantation and anodization stages. The device (10) has a rectifying p-n junction within the porous silicon region (22).
Patent GB-2426601-A (GB)
Title: Missile guidance system
Inventor: STURM RICHARD
IPC: G05D1/12
Filed: 1997-11-21
Abstract: A method for missile guidance systems having automatic target trackers 23,26 with manual correction 22 of the tracking point is disclosed. The estimated rotation speed of the line of sight to the target for guidance operation is derived from the measured rotation speed (known manner) and from a correction produced from an operator induced correction signal 21,22 of the tracking point using a dynamic model of the tracking control circuit. The correction is therefore treated by the guidance system as a further movement of the target. This enables the prevention of heavy overshoot of the missile path which can lead to delays in tracking stabilisation.
Patent GB-2321600-A (GB)
Title: Gas treatment device with sampling port
Inventor: NASH JOHN
IPC: G01N1/22
Filed: 1998-01-08
Abstract: The treatment device, which may be a heat and moisture exchanger or a filter, has a treatment element within a casing such that gas flows through the element and also has a gas sampling port 20 opening on one side of the element. The port includes a valve 24 which is normally closed but is openable by the connection to the port of a coupling member 42 on the end of tubing 41 associated with a gas monitor. A central nose 43 of the coupling has a luer taper for insertion into a tapered end 23 of port bore 22. The coupling has a threaded, rotatable locking ring 45 which engages an external thread 21 on the port to lock the coupling onto the port.
Patent GB-2321565-A (GB)
Title: Retro-reflective flexible material sheet for use as background in chroma-keying video image composition system
Inventor: THOMAS GRAHAM ALEXANDER
IPC: H04N5/275
Filed: 1998-01-28
Abstract: A subject 1 is imaged in front of a retro-reflective background 3 and light projected from the camera 5, preferably from a ring of key-coloured LEDs 7 disposed around the camera lens, is used to generate a key signal for distinguishing the subject from the background so that the subject may be keyed into a separate background image 11. Instead of projecting a key colour on to the retro-reflective background a pattern or brightness property of the projected light may be used as the keying signal. Alternatively the projected light may vary in time with respect to brightness and/or colour and the resulting temporal characteristic used as the keying signal. A shadow effect may be produced by illuminating the subject from another direction to that of the LEDs 7. The retro-reflective material comprises a flexible material coated with randomly orientated retro-reflective particles (Figs 3 and 5).
Patent GB-2322457-A (GB)
Title: Engine control system which reduces thermal deterioration of a torque converter
Inventor: MURAKI HIROTADA
IPC: F02D41/22
Filed: 1998-02-06
Abstract: Thermal deterioration of a torque convertor 6 in a system comprising an internal combustion engine 1 and an automatic transmission 7 is reduced by limiting the maximum output from the engine when the vehicle output speed is below a preset value. Vehicle operating conditions including vehicle speed 13 and a power requirement 12 are sensed, and desired engine output is determined from these conditions. First and second maximum torque/power output schedules are provided, the first schedule having a lower maximum power/torque output range than the second schedule. The first output schedule is selected and used to limit the maximum power/torque output of the engine when the vehicle speed is less than a predetermined value, except when the starter switch is being operated. A second vehicle speed sensor 14 may be provided in the transmission, the speed signals compared, and the first output schedule being used when the speed signals differ indicating a sensor fault.
Patent GB-2323937-A (GB)
Title: Preparing vehicle diagnosing programs
Inventor: TAKAKURA KEIJI
IPC: G01M17/007
Filed: 1998-02-16
Abstract: The apparatus 3 for preparing a vehicle diagnosing program transmits the program to a portable diagnosing unit 2 which diagnoses a vehicle via an electronic control unit mounted on the vehicle c. Each diagnosing function program is made up of a plurality of diagnosing steps arranged in an appropriate order and is prepared by setting a parameter in each of the diagnosing steps. The vehicle diagnosing program is prepared by selecting and combining the diagnosing function programs in an order of performing the vehicle diagnosing function programs for each kind of electronic control unit. The kind of electronic control unit is identified by reading a bar code BC located on the vehicle.
Patent GB-2321396-A (GB)
Title: Handle for carrier bags
Inventor: MATTISON IAIN
IPC: A45F5/10
Filed: 1998-03-09
Abstract: A separate handle for carrier bags comprises a base 2, a first upstanding wall 4 formed on the base 2 and a second upstanding wall 6 formed on the base 2 generally parallel to the first wall 4 to create a channel 8 therebetween, a first arm 10 extends upwards from a rear end of the first wall 4 to a height greater than the rear of second wall 6 a second arm 14 extends upwards from a front end of the second wall 6 to a height greater than that of first wall 4, and the first arm 10 is connected to a hand grip 12. The second arm 14 may extend laterally over the first wall 4. This arrangement allows the handle to be hooked through the loops of a carrier bag, whereupon the weight of the carrier bag rests on the first and second walls 4,6. The first arm 10 at the rear of the first wall 4 and the second arm 12 at the front of the second wall 6 tend to cause the bag handles to rotate under the action of gravity and come to rest lying along the channel 8 between the first and second walls 4,6. The invention allows successive bags to be picked up easily and carried comfortably.
Patent GB-2327449-A (GB)
Title: Method of transporting and installing a substructure
Inventor: HALEY DAVID WILLIAM
IPC: F03D1/00
Filed: 1998-04-02
Abstract: A method of transporting and installing a substructure for an offshore plafform, the substructure consisting of a generally flat base 20 and a support 21 upstanding from that base; the method comprising the steps of ensuring that an upper surface of the base 20 is secured directly or indirectly to an under surface of a buoyant body 23 at at least two spaced apart points, floating the body to the intended site of the offshore platform, so to transport the substructure to that site, and then lowering the substructure 20,21 from the body 23, so that the base 21 of the substructure rests on the seabed.
Patent GB-2327377-A (GB)
Title: A machine for working sheet metal.
Inventor: PERAZZOLO EUGENIO
IPC: B21D28/04
Filed: 1998-07-21
Abstract: The machine (1) comprises a work surface (3) on which sheet metal (2) rests, a fixed structure (4) which supports the work surface, a work station (5) provided with a hammer moveable along a vertical axis (P) to punch the sheet metal, punch units (7) defined by a first holder (21) and a punch tool (22), and die units (11) defined by a second holder (31) and a die tool (32). The machine (1) includes a first rotatable table (6) which carries the punch units and which transfers a punch unit to the work station, and a second rotatable table (8) which carries the die units and which transfers a die unit to the work station. It includes means (42) for centring the punch unit with respect to the axis (P) by securing the first holder to the fixed structure and means (43) for centring the die unit with respect to the axis (P) by securing the second holder to the fixed structure, excluding the tables from this securing which are therefore not affected by the mechanical stresses generated by the punching, stresses which are transmitted by the centring means directly to the fixed structure.
Patent GB-2329719-A (GB)
Title: Silver halide light sensitive element
Inventor: ZENGERLE PAUL LEO
IPC: G03C7/388
Filed: 1998-08-18
Abstract: A silver halide light sensitive photographic element is disclosed and comprises a support bearing at least one yellow image forming hydrophilic colloid layer, comprising yellow image dye forming couplers, at least one hydrophilic colloid layer immediately adjacent to the yellow image forming layer, and at least one adjacent cyan or magenta image forming hydrophilic colloid layer comprising cyan or magenta image dye forming couplers; wherein the yellow image forming layer is substantially free of high boiling permanent solvent, any immediately adjacent hydrophilic colloid layers and the adjacent image forming layer are substantially free of high boiling permanent solvents having a logP value of less than about 5.5, and the adjacent image forming layer contains a high boiling permanent solvent having a logP value of at least about 5.5. The photographic elements exhibit good yellow image dye light stability, which is not degraded by the presence of relatively high logP value solvents in immediately adjacent hydrophilic colloid layers and other adjacent imaging layers. Examples of high log<p> solvents are given on P.10 and include tricresylphosphate and dicydohexylphthalate.
Patent GB-2342082-A (GB)
Title: Machine for obliquely sealing and filling flexible containers
Inventor: SHIPWAY MALCOLM
IPC: B65B61/18
Filed: 1998-09-29
Abstract: A machine 1 obliquely seals flexible containers 2 and subsequently fills said containers with liquid. The oblique seals 7 are preferably adjacent an outlet of the container such as the filling and dispensing spout 4, to enhance the flow during dispensing of liquid from said containers. The flexible containers can be the filled bags in bag-in-box applications for the dispensing of a product such as wine, the oblique seals aiding loading of the filled bags into the boxes. The machine preferably comprises a plurality of stations with the sealing station 6 upstream of a filling station 9. If the containers are supplied as a web of containers there is a station 8 between the sealing and filling stations to separate the containers.
Patent GB-2330448-A (GB)
Title: Method of processing spent reactor fuel
Inventor: KONDO NARUHITO
IPC: G21C19/44
Filed: 1998-10-16
Abstract: Spent reactor fuel is composed by covering the metallic nuclear fuel material with a cladding tube made of alloy and having a melting point lower than that of the metallic nuclear fuel material and end plugs made of alloy are mounted to both ends thereof. The spent reactor fuel as it is or cut up undergoes a cladding tube smelting separation process of heating the processing target so as to smelt and separate the alloy cladding tube or the end plugs from the metallic nuclear fuel material; a molten salt electrolytic process of immersing the metallic nuclear fuel material in a salt consisting of alkali metal or alkaline earth metal chloride or a mixture thereof, to be used as an anode while a solid electrode or a molten metal electrode is used as a cathode, and dissolving the metallic nuclear fuel material in the salt by applying a current between the anode and cathode while depositing uranium, uranium and plutonium or uranium, plutonium and transuranium elements to the cathode; and a salt evaporation separation process of heating chloride or alkaline earth metal adhering to the deposited element which is deposited and adheres to the cathode in a normal pressure state or in a pressure reducing state so that the chloride or alkaline earth metal is evaporated and separated and recovering metallic uranium, uranium and plutonium, or uranium, plutonium and transuranium elements.
Patent GB-2332281-A (GB)
Title: Rolling bearing unit with rotation speed sensor
Inventor: MIYAZAKA HIROYA
IPC: G01P1/00
Filed: 1998-12-15
Abstract: A rolling bearing unit with a rotation speed sensor (33) comprising a stationary member (1), a rotatable member (2) a second raceway, a plurality of rolling members (9) rotatably provided between the first raceway and the second raceway, an encoder (3) fixed to the rotatable member (2) and to be concentric with the rotational axis thereof and having a detected portion the magnetic characteristics of which are adapted to alternately change, and a sensor (33) fixed to the stationary member to detect changes in the magnetic characteristics of the encoder (3) to produce signals as the rotatable member (2) rotates, and the sensor (33) having a detecting portion which is opposed to the detected portion of the encoder (3) with a clearance (34) therebetween at a circumferential location where the change in the clearance (34) is minimized when subjected to a load from outside.
Patent GB-2351086-A (GB)
Title: Infrared radiation curing of ionomer cements
Inventor: WILDE CHRISTOPHER EAGLETON
IPC: A61K6/083
Filed: 1999-01-28
Abstract: Dental ionomer cements are cured using infrared radiation at wavelengths ranging 0. 1-100  m. This results in dental ionomer cements having accelerated setting speeds, surface hardness and accelerated resistance to water contamination. Further the dental ionomer cements may be polished immediately following the infrared curing. Further disclosed is the use of infrared radiation consecutively or simultaneously with UV radiation for curing dental ionomer cements.
Patent GB-2336002-A (GB)
Title: Composite ribbon cable
Inventor: TUTTLEBEE ROGER
IPC: H02G11/02
Filed: 1999-02-16
Abstract: A composite ribbon coupling cable (22) includes a plurality of elongated strengthening elements (56) made of a resilient springy material, a plurality of elongated communications elements (46) disposed in alternating spaced apart relation with the elongated strengthening elements (56), an inner jacket (58) of insulative material encapsulating the alternating strengthening elements (56) and communications elements (46) therewithin so as to dispose the encapsulated elements in a substantially common plane providing a substantially flat ribbon configuration, and an outer jacket (60) of resilient wear-resistant protective material encapsulating the inner jacket (58) of insulative material. The strengthening elements (56) preferably are elongated bands of a spring metal whereas the communications elements (46) preferably have fiber optic cores or copper electrical cores. The inner jacket (58) includes a pair of inner flat layers (58A,58B) of insulative material disposed along and adhered to opposite sides of the alternating strengthening elements (56) and communications elements (46). The outer jacket (60) includes a pair of outer flat layers (60A,60B) of wear-resistant protective material each disposed along and adhered to an outer surface of one of the inner flat layers (58A,58B) of the inner jacket of insulative material.
Patent GB-2340897-A (GB)
Title: Seal assembly for annular hydraulic cylinder
Inventor: PETERSON DAVID C
IPC: B29C45/14
Filed: 1999-05-28
Abstract: A seal assembly especially suitable for use as the sealing element in an annular cylindrical bore (18) of a concentric cylinder assembly. The seal assembly includes an annular insert structure (24) of rigid material and an annular seal member (26) of elastomeric material bonded to the insert structure. The annular insert structure has an I-beam cross-sectional configuration including an outer annular flange structure (24a) centered on an axis, an inner annular flange structure (24b) centered on the axis concentrically within the outer annular flange structure, and annular web structure (24c) extending radially between the inner and outer annular flange structures. The web structure coacts with the flange structures to define left and right continuous annular grooves (30,32) in the left and right faces (24d,24a) of the insert structure and defines a plurality of circumferentially spaced holes (24j) extending axially through the web structure between the left and right grooves. The annular elastomeric seal member (26) fills the left and right grooves, fills the web structure holes, and extends to one side of the insert structure to form inner and outer annular sealing surfaces (26b,26a) for coaction with the respective annular surfaces of the annular cylindrical bore.
Patent GB-2350602-A (GB)
Title: Container formed from a blank
Inventor: WHITMORE KENNETH JOHN
IPC: B65D5/36
Filed: 1999-05-29
Abstract: A blank 10 for assembly into a container is made from corrugated fibreboard and comprises four wall panels 12, 14, 16 and 18. Base panels 34, 40 are attached to two of the wall panels, with wall reinforcing panels 38, 44 adjoining the base panels. The wall reinforcing panels 38, 44 are capable of being folded to overlie the base panels. Each base panel also includes a flap 100, 102, the flaps being capable of interacting with one another on assembly of the blank into a container. This allows the first base panel and the second base panel to overlap one another to form a reinforced base of the container. The reinforcing panels 38,44 may be adhesively joined to the respective wall panels 14,18 in a flattened, partly assembled form of the container, the walls 12-18 being pulled apart to erect the container fully.
Patent GB-991808-A (GB)
IPC: G01N21/72
Abstract: 991,808. Burners. FORESTRY COMMISSIONERS. Aug. 19, 1963 [Aug. 17, 1962], No. 31646/62. Heading F4T. [Also in Division G1] A burner, for an absorption flame spectrometer, comprises a box 1 on the top of which are secured two perforated plates 4 positioned to form a slot 5. Gas enters the box through a tube 3 and burns above the perforations 6 and the slot 5.
Patent GB-191214060-A (GB)
IPC: F02B75/04
Abstract: 14,060. James, T. S. June 17. Driving-gear.-In a four-stroke-cycle engine in which the piston moves further rearwards on the exhaust stroke than upon the compression stroke, the difference in stroke is effected by means of a telescopic connecting-rod, provided with gearing for adjusting it. One part f of the telescopic connecting-rod carries at its lower end a cam drum g and a bevel pinion m which gears with a pinion n keyed to the crank-pin c. The cam drum has a groove h therein, of the shape shown in Fig. 2, engaged by a roller j on a pin i carried by the other part e of the connecting-rod, slots. k allowing the pins l to slide during the adjustment of the stroke. The increased length of the exhaust stroke permits of a more complete scavenging and of the introduction of a greater volume of mixture.
Patent HU-T63469-A (HU)
Title: Electrolytic cell for producing gas
Inventor: CHITI LUCIANO
IPC: C25B9/19
Filed: 1992-10-19
Abstract: Electrolysis cell for the production of a gas, comprising at least two electrolysis chambers, anodic (2) and cathodic (3) respectively, at least one of which is in communication, at its lower part, with an electrolyte entry conduit (5), and, in its upper part, with an electrolyte degassing chamber (7), arranged above it and provided with an opening (8) for removing gas and an opening (16) for removing electrolyte, an electrolyte recycling conduit (10) connecting the degassing chamber (7) to the entry conduit (5) and comprising a valve (11) which is open or closed depending on whether the pressure downstream (B) of the valve (11) is lower or higher than the pressure upstream (A) of the valve. <IMAGE>