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Patent GB-2218299-A (GB)
Title: Artificial mouth
Inventor: CROSS ROBIN CHRISTOPHER
IPC: H04M1/24
Filed: 1987-12-31
Abstract: An artificial mouth comprises a loudspeaker (1) having a loudspeaker cone (1a) and a front plate (4) having an aperture (4a) aligned with the axis of the cone. The front plate (4) is provided with a plurality of resonator chambers (5) which open onto that surface (4c) of the front plate facing the interior of the loudspeaker cone (1a). The resonator chambers (5) are tuned to a predetermined frequency, namely to the frequency of the resonant peak that the frequency response of the artificial mouth would have in the absence of the resonator chambers (5). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2201898-A (GB)
Title: Puzzle
Inventor: MAGGS CHRISTOPHER W M
IPC: A63F9/00
Filed: 1988-03-04
Abstract: There is disclosed a puzzle comprising an array of concentric rotatable elements (21) having an upper surface defining a plurality of locations (22), each location (22) being adapted removably to receive a single counter (23) thereby to be occupied by that counter (23) and each location (22) also being coded to correspond to one or more of the counters (23), wherein the elements of the puzzle are arranged to permit the transfer of counters (23) between elements and wherein, in the whole puzzle, there is at least one more of the said locations (22) than there are counters (23) such that, at any one time, at least one of the locations (22) is unoccupied. A more complex puzzle can be provided by the juxtaposition of a plurality of arrays. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2219904-A (GB)
Title: Use of location-determining systems
Inventor: CROMPTON EDWARD WYN
IPC: B60P3/03
Filed: 1988-03-09
Abstract: A security system uses a navigation system, which may be radio-based, dead-reckoning or a combination of the two, to monitor the location of a vehicle or container so as to signal that it has deviated from a predetermined route and/or to control operation of a physical locking or unlocking device so as, for example, to enable a container or compartment only to be opened at a predetermined location. Thus the invention is applicable inter alia to cash-in-transit systems, to prevent secure compartments being opened except at prescribed drop-point and also to floating vessels to restrict locations at which they can discharge material.
Patent GB-2218422-A (GB)
Title: Fillers
Inventor: BROWN STEPHEN CLIFFORD
IPC: C08K9/04
Filed: 1988-05-11
Abstract: A filler for plastics materials which imparts electrical conductivity comprises particles of a fire retardant/smoke suppressant solid at least partially coated with at least one layer of an electrically conductive material. The preferred fire retardant/smoke suppressant is alumina trihydrate. The resulting filled plastics materials can be used in any situation where r.f. radiation shielding or an anti-static effect is desired, for example in the housing of electronic data processing equipment.
Patent GB-2218723-A (GB)
Title: Subsea support arrangement
Inventor: CHAPMAN IAIN MCLEAN
IPC: B63C11/40
Filed: 1988-08-22
Abstract: A subsea support arrangement 10 for a submerged mobile body 13, suspended from a surface vessel by umbilical 27 and moveable horizontally by thrusters 26, includes a post or pile 14 upstanding from the sea bed having a profiled axial recess 14 in the top and, on the body, support means including a hydraulic ram 12. The ram has a cylinder 17 fixed to the body and a piston shaft 20 rotatable in the cylinder and extendable along support axis 19 carrying a profiled plunger or pin 21 which is extended to seat in the recess 14 and support the body thereon, the pin and recess absorbing vertical and lateral 26 loads, and rotation between piston of cylinder forming a rotational bearing. Alternatively (Fig. 3) the cylinder is fixed with respect to the piston and mounted in a housing about which the body can rotate. Furthermore (Figs. 6 to 8), resilient fingers 56 may depend from the housing and be wedged within the recess by the plunger. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2211892-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle engine fuel control device
Inventor: FARR GLYN PHILLIP REGINALD
IPC: F02D43/00
Filed: 1988-11-04
Abstract: The carburettor throttle valve or fuel pump control member 17 is coupled to a piston 12 which is connected to the vehicle throttle pedal (21, Figs 2 and 3) through a lost motion spring 20. The vacuum or air pressure in the chambers 13, 14 defined on opposite sides of the piston can be controlled by valves 33, 34, and 26, 28 so that in one mode the vacuums or pressures in the chambers are equalised so that the movement of the piston and fuel control member are directly under the control of the pedal, in a second mode a pressure differential controls the position of the fuel control member to provide "cruise control" and in a third mode the pressure differential can move the fuel control member 17 in opposition to the setting of the pedal to reduce fuel supply in response to vehicle wheel slip. Brake and throttle pedal switches (37, 39, Fig 3) provide for deactivation of the "cruise control" which is enabled at higher transmission ratios by a gearbox switch (36). The valves 33 and 34 are operated simultaneously from positions providing for cruise control to positions providing for wheel slip control and the valves 26 and 28 are pulsed to control the pressure differential. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2209607-A (GB)
Title: Well logging system employing focused current in measuring resistivity while drilling
Inventor: MEISNER JAMES EDWARD
IPC: G01V3/24
Filed: 1988-11-10
Abstract: A formation resistivity system is disclosed for use while a drilling operation is occurring. The system contains three electrode bands (51, 53, 55) arranged on an insulating sleeve (47) of a drill string member (25). An electronics package (73) contained in the drill string member includes a drive voltage circuit (90, 94) to provide through a current distribution circuit (64) a focused current to the electrode bands. Formation resistivity data is obtained by a voltage measuring circuit (104) and a current measuring circuit (106) contained in the electronics package. An additional portion (150) of the current measuring circuit is arranged in the insulating sleeve.
Patent GB-2211336-A (GB)
Title: Improving the reliability of voice control of function elements
Inventor: GOLLMAR KLAUS
IPC: G10L15/00
Filed: 1988-12-16
Abstract: In a method and a device for reliably detecting at least the beginning of a voice command for a voice control of function elements, signals of a first microphone to which contact sound of an operating person is applied, are used for triggering a second microphone which is directed towards the mouth of the operating person in order to improve the reliability of the voice control in high ambient noise.
Patent GB-2213733-A (GB)
Title: A clamping device
Inventor: RADWELL JOHN CLIVE
IPC: F16B2/12
Filed: 1989-02-16
Abstract: A clamp for the pins and rods of a bone fixator made of a lightweight plastics material and comprising a pair of clamping discs (1, 2) mounted on a common axis. The pins and rods are held in a passageway (17) or passageways formed between the confronting faces (4, 10) of the discs. To resist separation and relative rotation of the discs (1, 2) as the discs (1, 2) are pulled together by an axially mounted clamping bolt, the confronting faces (4, 10) are provided with specially designed interengageable formations comprising a recess (8) across one face and a complementary projection (14) across the other face.
Patent GB-2232189-A (GB)
Title: Scaffold tube clamp
Inventor: COTTON RAYMOND
IPC: E04G7/14
Filed: 1989-04-28
Abstract: A clamp for clamping two tubes together at right angles comprises a cruciform body having seatings 5, 6 for the tubes on its opposite sides, each flanked by two pairs of similarly-directed parallel spaced lugs 3, 4 between which are mounted a cap 9 for retaining a tube in the respective seating and a clamping bolt 11 for engagement with the cap to clamp the tube in the seating. The body comprises two substantially identical elements 1 of cruciform shape, each having lugs 3, 4 extending from side edges adjacent to the ends of two opposite arms. Confronting edges 6 of the lugs define the seatings 5, 6. The two elements are assembled and secured together, for example by a single weld at 8, with their lugs oppositely directed and with the other opposite arms of each element fitting snugly between the parallel lugs of the other element. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2232278-A (GB)
Title: Amplitude interpolator arrangements
Inventor: SUMMERS CHRISTOPHER PAUL
IPC: G06F17/17
Filed: 1989-05-31
Abstract: An amplitude interpolator operable on applied successive samples x1, x2, x3, x4 .... etc. of a signal waveform for affording an interpolated output in respect of a specified position between said successive samples comprises a subtractor S for subtractively combining successive samples in pairs, means T2, T3, T4 for delaying the applied successive samples and the subtracted outputs, means M1, M2, M3 for multiplying the subtracted outputs by coefficients dn, cn + dn, dn which are dependent upon said specified position, and an adder AD for adding together the multiplied outputs and the delayed applied successive samples to afford the interpolated output. The interpolator may be used in a digital teletext decoder, and occupies less chip area than a prior art interpolator (Fig. 2). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2223126-A (GB)
Title: Bipolar transistor using field oxide emitter/base spacer
Inventor: LIM SOON-KWON
IPC: H01L29/08
Filed: 1989-06-29
Abstract: A minimum spacing between the base and the emitter in a bipolar transistor is determined by using a BIRD'S BEAK phenomenon due to a LOCOS (LOCal Oxidation of Silicon) process. A region on a silicon substrate is shielded and the unshielded surface subject to LOCOS so that a bird's beak forms under the edge of the shield. The unshielded oxide is removed to leave the bird's beak surrounding the shielded region and usable as a spacer (8) in forming emitter (13) and base contact (9) regions. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2237613-A (GB)
Title: An improved coaxial pipe system
Inventor: SHAW HUGH MACKAY
IPC: F16L39/00
Filed: 1989-11-02
Abstract: In a coaxial pipe system, in which thermal expansion or contraction is accommodated by inter-pipe anchors connected at the ends of straight pipe runs, each anchor comprises integral inner and outer coaxial cylindrical members 1, 2 with an apertured disc therebetween to permit drainage. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2238276-A (GB)
Title: A band device for retaining a tyre on a wheel rim
Inventor: SAVAGE BERNARD JOHN
IPC: B60B21/12
Filed: 1989-11-22
Abstract: A band device 2 for retaining a tyre on a wheel rim in the event that the tyre should become deflated comprises first and second band portions 4, 6 which are part circular, a flexible link member 8 for linking adjacent first ends 10, 12 of the band portions 4, 6 and screw threaded fastener means 14 for connecting adjacent second ends 16, 18 of the band portions 4, 6 such that the band device 2 is fastenable on the wheel rim. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2239152-A (GB)
Title: A tool to facilitate the filling of a hay net
Inventor: COLLINS LIONEL GEORGE
IPC: A01K5/00
Filed: 1989-12-18
Abstract: A tool (1) to facilitate filling of a haynet with hay comprises first anchoring means in the form of a pair of spaced parallel tines (2), a handle (4) which can be used to insert the tines (2) into a bale of hay and second anchoring means including a pair of spaced apart hooks (6) on which two loops of a haynet at the mouth thereof can be hooked. The user holds the mouth of the haynet in one hand at a position generally diametrically opposite the portions held by the hooks (6) and uses the other hand to stuff hay through the open mouth of the haynet. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2240420-A (GB)
Title: A process for treating a panel for an illuminated sign
Inventor: HEATON ALAN
IPC: G09F13/04
Filed: 1990-02-27
Abstract: A process for treating a panel for an illuminated sign said process comprising applying to a first region 30 of said panel a material capable of allowing to be transmitted through said panel a desired portion of light incident on the material, said first region being selected to be arranged adjacent a light source (14, 20 - Figure 1) of the sign and to have a configuration to conform substantially with the profile to be presented to the panel by the light source, and applying to at least one second region 32 of said panel a desired amount of said material, wherein the, or each, second region is substantially parallel to an edge of the first region. Suitably a plurality of second regions are arranged successively further from the first region. The material applied to the regions may be coloured ink and the ink applied to the first region may be a darker colour than that applied to the second regions. Thus the problem of 'striping', caused when a panel is too closely placed to a fluorescent tube, is avoided. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2237804-A (GB)
Title: Infra-red absorbing azo compounds
Inventor: HALL NIGEL
IPC: G02B5/22
Filed: 1990-08-20
Abstract: Infra-red absorbing compounds of Formula (1) absorb electromagnetic radiation in the region 700 to 1100nm are disclosed:-  X - N = N - Y                      (1) wherein: <IMAGE> A and B are electron withdrawing groups; D is OH or R<4>NH; E is H, halogen, -C1-6-alkyl, -C1-6-alkoxy, @     phenyl, -CH2COOR<5>, -COOR<5> or @@ -C1-6alkylphenyl; R<1>, R<2>, R<4> and R<5> are each independently selected from H, C1-6-alkyl; C3-6-alkenyl and @@ C1-6-alkyl-O-(C1-6-alkyl); R<3> is CO2H or SO3H; and n is 0, 1 or 2.
Patent GB-2237491-A (GB)
Title: Harvesting of delicate produce
Inventor: WHEELER GEOFFREY CHARLES
IPC: A01D45/00
Filed: 1990-10-29
Abstract: Apparatus for harvesting delicate produce particularly mushrooms - includes a picking head 26 which is controlled to be positioned over an item of produce to be harvested, by means of a camera 17 which scans a tray of said items and a control unit operating on a camera output to determine the coordinates of those items found to be suitable for picking. The picking head 26 includes a bellows-like produce gripper 41 through which air is drawn to hold an item of produce securely but gently against an engagement face at the free end of the gripper. Once the item has been securely held, it is pulled free by means of a twisting and lifting action, imparted to the picking head 26. The stalk is then cut away by a cutter 29, and the item is deposited in a box carried on a conveyor 28. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-904092-A (GB)
Abstract: 904,092. Changing signs. LEPINAY, G., and LEPINAY, Y. March 16, 1960 [March 17, 1959], No. 9299/60. Class 3 (1). [Also in Group XXXII] A parking-time indicator for a vehicle, which is manually adjustable by the driver and is visible from inside and outside the vehicle, forms part of a driving mirror or sun visor. As shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the rear view mirror comprises a case 1 and a frame 8 for maintaining the mirror glass 9 in position in the case. The case has two pivot pins 4 to rotatably support a pair of discs 6a, 6m, between the case and the glass. The edges of the discs are knurled and protrude, slightly, from the sides of the case through recesses 2. A pair of windows 7 is provided in the case, for each disc, and face the windscreen, whilst pairs of smaller windows 11, angularly displaced through 90 degrees relative to the windows 7, are provided by unsilvered portions in the mirror glass. The disc 6a is provided on its faces with p.m. time indications so that the time indications appearing in the associated pair of windows 7 simultaneously appear in the associated pair of windows 11. Similarly, the disc 6m is provided on its faces with a.m. time indications. A strip or blade shutter, having two pairs of windows corresponding to the windows 7 may be provided, so as to be slidable in a slideway in the case, whereby when one disc is in use the windows 7 of the other disc are obscured and the associated end of the strip projects beyond the side of the case and the edge of the other disc to prevent free access to that edge, all as described with reference to Fig. 8 (not shown). Instead of the strip or blade shutter, each disc 6a or 6m may have associated therewith a disc or sector-shaped shutter rotatable on the pin 4, the two shutters being connected by a link, so that operation of one causes rotary movement of the other, as described with reference to Figs. 9 and 10 (not shown).
Patent GB-2240760-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for erecting temporary fences
Inventor: WIER JAN HENRY
IPC: E04H17/26
Filed: 1991-02-05
Abstract: Apparatus for erecting temporary fences comprises a carry frame mounting one or more reels R onto which electric fence wire can be loaded. The frame also carries fencing posts P. Guides (27, 19) guide wire or wires from or onto the reel or reels. The reel mounting comprises a hub member (81, Fig. 8) locatable in a reel bore. A hub nut (88) screws an the hub to cause expansion of the hub to grip the reel. More than one wire reel may be mounted on the hub. Handle 25 is used for rewinding. Highly visible reflective flags, which may be metallised. are secured at intervals along the wire (Fig. 6). The remote end of unwound wire may be held by a device (Figs. 11, 12) which releases the wire when an operator gives a series of tugs on the wire. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2251497-A (GB)
Title: A reciprocating laser light deflector for optical bar code readers
Inventor: GIULIANO LANDI
IPC: G02B26/10
Filed: 1991-11-15
Abstract: A combination of a flexible blade 16 of material which displays the phenomenon of piezoelectricity - this blade being provided with a mirror surface 17 on at least one part, and being made to vibrate in a reciprocating manner by an electrical generator connected to it - and a laser generator 1 produces a coherent light scanning line on a reading surface 18. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2250917-A (GB)
Title: 5-HT Receptor agonists
Inventor: SCHAEFFER ALAIN EMILE EDOUARD
IPC: A61K31/40
Filed: 1991-12-19
Abstract: Effervescent compositions for oral use comprise a 5HT1-like receptor agonist or their salts or solvates as active ingredient. The preferred active ingredient is the sulphonamide. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2265502-A (GB)
Title: Dc-ac converter
Inventor: YANG TAI-HER
IPC: H02J7/36
Filed: 1992-03-18
Abstract: DC-AC converter circuit of bridge type employing switching elements SWF101, SWF102, SWR101, SWR102 such as thyristors, transistors or electromechanical switch units, is supplied from a multi voltage supply unit Po. The voltage supply unit Po may comprise a voltage divider unit (Figs 2 and 3) including batteries (U1-U6) switched in series or parallel by switches (SSU). In a further bridge converter circuit two supply units (Po', Po", Fig 4) are connected to the switching elements (SWF, SWR). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2255497-A (GB)
Title: A blank for a shopping bag carrying handle
Inventor: ROSENTHAL GERALD NORMAN
IPC: A45F5/10
Filed: 1992-05-07
Abstract: A blank (10) (Fig 1) from which a carrying handle can be produced comprises foldable material which is centrally creased (20.1; 20.2) so that it can be folded in half along a line parallel to two opposed edges (12, 14) of the blank to form first and second panels (32; 34). A rectangular flap (22) is partly bounded by two parallel slits (24, 26) which lie inwardly of the edges (16, 18) and cross the central crease (20.1; 20.2). The remaining edges of the flap are formed by a crease (30.1; 30.2) and a slit (18) which are parallel to one another and to the edges (12, 14). Upon the blank being folded along the central creases, the panels are face-to-face. When the blank is folded along the other crease line, the flap (22) sandwiches one (32) of the panels between itself and the other panel (34). The upwardly open V-shaped gap between the panels receives the handle of a shopping bag. In an alternative construction (Fig 8) the blank is rectangular and has a pair of parallel crease lines 20. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2262641-A (GB)
Title: Image recognition
Inventor: ANDREWS PATRICK ROWAN
IPC: G06V10/147
Filed: 1992-08-27
Abstract: Objects are recognised in complex visual surroundings. Each scene is examined a very small area at a time. The light levels in this region are stored in a hexagonal array of detectors which causes the image to be blurred asymmetrically enabling Figure/Ground discrimination. The resulting matrix of values is then sampled by further detectors which analyse the pattern in each of the three principal directions of the hexagonal array. The resulting three numbers are characteristic of the small area of a scene under consideration. The numbers for scenes which are "similar" are numerically close. Novel objects are automatically classified by virtue of the similarity of their numbers to those of known images. Thus known objects can be recognised by reactivating their previously-stored numbers and their "neighbours". <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2270758-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for determining a parameter of a fluid
Inventor: PARKER MALCOLM
IPC: G01F1/24
Filed: 1992-09-15
Abstract: Apparatus for determining a parameter of a fluid, e.g. flow rate (fig. 1) or fluid level (fig. 14a) comprises a float 17, 63 located in a vessel 11, 65, the float being provided with a magnet 21, 69. A fluxgate sensor 23,75 is situated adjacent to the vessel to determine the position of the float, providing an indication of the parameter to be determined. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2259900-A (GB)
Title: Distribution apparatus
Inventor: MACMILLAN COLIN
IPC: B65G47/64
Filed: 1992-09-24
Abstract: Distribution apparatus for sorting and distribution loads such as parcels includes an array of stations juxtaposed to form a matrix having at least one input station for receiving a load, a plurality of output stations and a plurality of transfer stations each adapted to transfer loads therein in a selected one of a plurality of directions. Control means are provided to direct said load from said input station to a predetermined one of the output stations via a plurality of said transfer stations.
Patent GB-2260632-A (GB)
Title: Information management and reporting
Inventor: MORRISON DENNIS P
IPC: G06F19/00
Filed: 1992-10-12
Abstract: A system that manages patient information and assessment information associated with those patients, maintains a list of patient records and links those patient records with assessment records. it utilizes assessment processing and reporting rules for managing, analysing, and generating reports of assessment information. Repeated measures data is plotted relative to orthogonal axes on a display, with one axis intersecting the other at the point corresponding to the value along the latter axis of the first item of data. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2271671-A (GB)
Title: Inertia power generator
Inventor: WALL JOHN STEPHEN
IPC: H02K57/00
Filed: 1992-10-14
Abstract: A power generator comprising moving armatures, primary coils and secondary coils making various inclined planes, the magnetic field of the armatures producing induction of electricity by motion through the primary and secondary coils. Motion of the armatures, in suspension in the coils, produces a magnetic field with friction due to air only. A force applied to the velocity of ascent or descent gives the armatures uniform velocity on the various inclined planes. The power plant consists of inclinate and declinate assemblies and a control building to give generators of various electrical output.
Patent GB-2262164-A (GB)
Title: Zoom lens having weak front lens group
Inventor: BETENSKY ELLIS ISRAEL
IPC: G02B15/16
Filed: 1992-10-28
Abstract: A zoom lens having two groups of lens components G1 and G2 including from the object side a positive group G1 and a negative group G2. The positive group G1 includes two lens units, a weak unit U1, and a positive unit U2, while the negative group G2 has at least one negative lens component and provides most of the magnification change during zooming. Zooming is effected by changing the distance between groups G1 and G2 and optionally the distance between units U1 and U2. The zoom lens may have aspheric surfaces. Unit U1 has no strong lens component. <IMAGE>