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Patent GB-2256166-A (GB)
Title: Method of making window bag assembly with content indicia
Inventor: BUNCH JOSEPH
IPC: B31B50/88
Filed: 1991-08-23
Abstract: A bag assembly 10 is made by selecting the contents for an opaque inner bag 12, printing graphic indicia of those contents on a layer 18 and applying that layer to the interior of an outer bag 14 so that it underlies a window aperture 16 in the outer bag. A plurality of indicia layers may be produced by printing plural indicia on a single web and then slitting the web. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2260746-A (GB)
Title: Collapsible containers
Inventor: PARKER RODERICK MICHAEL
IPC: B65D1/02
Filed: 1991-10-02
Abstract: A container of resilient flexible material, after it has performed its function, may be collapsed, to reduce its internal volume and retained collapsed, to make it easier to dispose of. The container is collapsed by displacing opposite side walls 14, 16 towards each other, said side walls being provided with inter-engageable retaining devices 26, 28. The inter-engageable retaining devices 26, 28 are preferably provided near the base on the blow mould part line and preferably comprise a recess 28 on one side wall and a cooperating projection 26 on the other side wall. Preferably the projection 26 fits in the recess 28 as a snap fit. The projection may be elongate and surrounded by a projecting rib (38, Fig 5A), more than one pair of cooperating projections 26 and recesses 28 may be provided (Figure 11), and the projection may be shorter than the recess to allow for misalignment (Fig 9). The container may have a crease or other weakening 24 on one or both sides near the base to ease the collapse process. The container may be used for cleaning or disinfecting liquids. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2261642-A (GB)
Title: Anti-theft device for vehicles
Inventor: EATON MAURICE BARRY
IPC: B60R25/00
Filed: 1991-11-21
Abstract: An anti-theft device of the handbrake locking type has a body which is slideably fixed around a handbrake lever 3 as shown or permanently built into the handbrake lever. The body 5 is fixed to the handbrake and the locking means 6 can be used in normal use to depress the handbrake release mechanism. When it is required to prevent unauthorised movement of the vehicle the lock is operated to allow a plunger 7 to engage thus preventing depression of the locking mechanism and release of the brakes. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2249627-A (GB)
Title: Method of establishing identity
Inventor: CHEUNG LORI LAN CHO
IPC: C12Q1/68
Filed: 1991-12-24
Abstract: A method for identifying an individual member of a species of organism comprises analyzing the DNA of the organism in respect to the presence or absence in the genome of one or more polymorphic enzyme sites and based on the comparison of these results to the presence or absence of one or more polymorphic enzyme sites in the DNA of one or more comparative members of the species, so characterizing the individual member of the species.
Patent GB-2256211-A (GB)
Title: Permanent shuttering for concrete slab edge.
Inventor: DOBSON IAN ROBERT
IPC: E04B1/41
Filed: 1992-05-06
Abstract: A permanent shutter 1 for the edge of a concrete floor slab comprises a base 10, a channel member 16 and walls 12a and 12b, together defining an edge barrier which is connected to the rest of the floor slab shuttering. T-headed bolts slidably located in the channel member when the floor slab is in use allow fixing brackets to be attached to the edge of the slab to support brickwork. In a second embodiment (Fig. 2, not shown), a single wall 19 has apertures 20 therein leading into the channel member 16. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2258637-A (GB)
Title: Print-wheel setting mechanisms for postage meters.
Inventor: HERBERT RAYMOND JOHN
IPC: G07B17/00
Filed: 1992-05-07
Abstract: A bidirectional motor is drivingly connected to two (or two series of) print-wheels via respective one way clutches such that rotation of the motor in one direction causes one (or one series) to be set and rotation in the other direction causes the other (or other series) to be set. A series of print-wheels may be a decade-wheel set in which motion is transmitted from a driven (e.g. units) wheel to a further (e.g. tens) wheel by a Geneva or like mechanism. As described (Fig 3) the motor 49 (which may be in the printhead of a franking machine) drives print-wheels 42 and 422 via clutch 50 and also drives print-wheels 423 and 424 via clutch 51, With respect to the series 42 and 422, the clutch 50 drives a first intermediate gear assembly 472-52 of which the wheel 472 is fully toothed and the wheel 52 has only one tooth. The wheel 472 meshes directly with first print-wheel 422, but the other print-wheel 42 meshes with an idler wheel 471 mounted coaxially on the intermediate gear assembly 472-52. Motion is transmitted from the one-toothed wheel 52 to the idler 471 by a transfer gear 54 (obscured in Fig 3) journalled on a shaft 55 parallel with but behind motor shaft 48. The print-wheel 421 is thereby indexed one digit for each complete revolution of the motor while the print-wheel 422 rotates one whole revolution per motor revolution. In other embodiments there may be two series of printwheels coaxially mounted at axially spaced locations on the motor shaft, each series having its own internal decade mechanism (Fig 2), or the decade mechanism can be dispensed with and two motors may set four printwheels directly with each motor controlling alternate wheels (Fig 1). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2273304-A (GB)
Title: Noise wall system and component for building same.
Inventor: GLICKMAN MICHAEL NEIL
IPC: E01F8/00
Filed: 1992-09-14
Abstract: A unit 50 for building a noise wall system is substantially rectangular as seen in front elevation and has first and second wing portions 54, 56 extending in opposite directions from a central core portion 52. The core portion has a substantially vertical hole 58 therethrough. Such units are used to build a free-standing noise wall system 30 in which the units are held one on top of another by tensioned rods e.g. 66. The core portion 52 may be generally rectangular as seen in plan, the longer axis of this portion extending in a front to back direction of the panel unit. Each unit may be supported on a levelling plate 70 (fig 8), a threaded stub 81 of a T-section member 80 extending through a slot 79 for engagement with a threaded female lower end of the tensioning rod. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2261103-A (GB)
Title: Audio frequency signal generating apparatus
Inventor: EL-KHAZEN FOUAD VICTOR
IPC: G10K15/02
Filed: 1992-10-21
Abstract: Audio frequency signal generating apparatus comprises a transducer 13, 23, 33, 43 responsive to a parameter of the drive system of a vehicle for producing a control signal in response to said parameter, and an audio frequency signal generator 11 whose frequency and/or amplitude is variable in response to said control signal. The audio frequency signal may constitute or may be used to generate a noise appropriate to the parameter of the drive system and may be of an enhanced character so that the user hears a noise simulating a different vehicle from the one with which he is travelling. The transducer may be rf, magnetic, mechanical or opto-electronic and responsive to eg. the ignition of an ic engine, the mechanical drive from an engine or the chain drive of a bicycle. The audio frequency signal may be transmitted to the in car radio receiver, direct to the amplifier, as a magnetic signal to tape pickup heads, or as an electromagnetic signal to a compact disc reproduction head. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2269634-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for power generation
Inventor: KAKOVITCH THOMAS
IPC: F01K25/06
Filed: 1992-11-27
Abstract: A method and apparatus for converting heat energy to mechanical energy with greater efficiency. According to the method, heat energy is applied to a working fluid in a reservoir sufficient to convert the working fluid to a vapor and the working fluid is passed in vapor form to means such as a generator for converting the energy therein to mechanical work. The working fluid is then recycled to the reservoir. In order to increase the efficiency of this process, a gas having a molecular weight no greater than the approximate molecular weight of the working fluid is added to the working fluid in the reservoir, separated from the working fluid downstream from the reservoir, compressed and returned to the reservoir.
Patent GB-2273856-A (GB)
Title: Pixel display palette
Inventor: SEAL DAVID JAMES
IPC: G09G5/06
Filed: 1992-12-22
Abstract: An apparatus for mapping a logical pixel value 2 (eg a 16 bit word) defining pixel appearance to a plurality of physical appearance component values (eg R, G, B colour values) for driving a display device is described. Read addresses for a plurality of palettes 4, 6, 8 and 10 are derived from bits of the logical pixel value. The portions of the logical pixel value which are used to provide these read addresses overlap with different ones of the bits common to two addresses being non-significant for each address. This results in the three component colour palettes 4, 6 and 8 addressed with 8-bit addresses holding duplicate sets of colours and/or adjacently repeated colours. An effects palette 10 may be allocated address bits to provide a blinking mode. In the case of a 16-bit logical pixel value, the system has the flexibility to support any of 6-5-5, 5-6-5 or 5-5-6 depending upon what is stored within the colour palettes. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2278782-A (GB)
Title: An improved knee arthroplasty and tibial component therefor
Inventor: HARDINGE KEVIN
IPC: A61F2/00
Filed: 1993-04-20
Abstract: The tibial component comprises a lower basal portion 2 for attachment to the tibia and upper meniscii 12, 14, the latter being adapted on the lower surface thereof to cooperate with tracks 4, 6 on the upper surface of the basal portion and adapted on the upper surface thereof to accommodate a femoral component or femoral condyles. The medial and lateral tracks are asymmetrical with respect to each other and a meniscus is able to move freely along a path defined by its cooperating track. A total knee arthroplasty comprising a femoral component and a tibia component is also provided. The media track of the lower basal portion maybe straight and the lateral track may be curved or vice versa so long as the asymmetric design is provided. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2267379-A (GB)
Title: Improving the visibility of floating structures
Inventor: MACLELLAN DONALD J
IPC: G09F21/18
Filed: 1993-05-28
Abstract: The visibility of a floating structure such as a lifeboat (1) is improved by providing its outer surface with fluorescent areas (2), luminescent areas (3) and reflective strips (4). These are arranged in patterns which allow the top and bottom of the lifeboat to be readily distinguished. When the lifeboat is stowed on another vessel, illumination means such as a U.V. light source, may be provided to illuminate and thus energise, the coatings. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2267885-A (GB)
Title: Improved access platform.
Inventor: BROADBRIDGE ALAN CLIVE
IPC: B66F9/12
Filed: 1993-06-09
Abstract: A foldable access platform has a square or rectangular base tray (10) to which are pivotally connected front and rear sides of an upper structure of the platform, the upper structure also comprising lateral sides (13, 14) pivotally connected to the front side for folding over it. The rear side is in two parts, an upper one of which is fold able down over the lower part thereof, and, in use, the rear side with the upper part folded down can be folded down as an assembly onto the base part (10) with the assembly of front side and inwardly folded lateral sides then being folded down onto the rear side (Figure 5 not shown), so that the whole of the folded upper structure is received in the base tray. Accordingly the folded platform can conveniently be stored and transported. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2269243-A (GB)
Title: Drying machine
Inventor: HAYASHI KINYA
IPC: D06F34/32
Filed: 1993-07-29
Abstract: A clothes drying machine comprising detection electrodes of a degree-of-dryness detecting circuit positioned in the drum of the machine by which a microcomputer determines whether the clothes are dried, is characterized by a preset function for in advance setting of a time when a drying operation is to be completed and a display which displays a specific mode when a time reaches the set time and because the clothes are not dried enough the drying operation continues.
Patent GB-2270959-A (GB)
Title: Manually-controlled countershaft gearing
Inventor: SEAMAN ROBERT L
IPC: F16H3/08
Filed: 1993-08-06
Abstract: A manual transmission mechanism for use in an engine-driven automotive vehicle comprises a mainshaft 36 and a countershaft 58, gearing arranged on each of said shafts, and synchronizer clutches. A clutch sleeve 112 on the mainshaft and a clutch sleeve 228 associated with the countershaft are moved together, in the same direction, by a common shift fork (Fig 6) member in shifting between direct drive and overdrive ratios. A shift gate has associated detent recesses 296 - 302 engageable by a sprung plunger (286, Fig. 3). Interlock means for preventing movement of non-selected synchronizers are described. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2270589-A (GB)
Title: Ring laser
Inventor: MAKER GARETH THOMAS
IPC: G02F1/09
Filed: 1993-09-09
Abstract: A ring laser has a cavity formed by only three elements. The first element is a concave mirror (11) which is wholly reflective to the cavity radiation but is transmissive to pump wavelength radiation. The third element is a concave mirror (13) which provides the output 16 from the cavity. The second element is a gain element in the form of a rod (12) of Faraday-effect material located in a constant axially-aligned magnetic field from a permanent magnet (14). The uncoated end faces (12A, 12B) of the rod (12) are Brewster angled and additionally one such face (12B) is tilted or wedged by up to 5 DEG to make the cavity non-planar. The ring laser operates in single longitudinal mode and the output beam 16 has a single frequency. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2268556-A (GB)
Title: Front fork assembly for a motorcycle
Inventor: TSURUMAKI HIDEO
IPC: B62K25/08
Filed: 1993-09-14
Abstract: A front fork assembly of a motorcycle comprises a pair of inverted type front forks each comprising an upper outer tube and a lower inner tube 65, upper and under brackets 62, 63 mounted to the front fork which are operatively connected to a body of the motorcycle, an axle bracket 66 secured to the lower end of each of the front forks, a calliper bracket secured to the axle bracket, a calliper 69 mounted to the calliper bracket, a disc plate 68 supported by the axle bracket, a protector 70 disposed in front of the front fork for protecting the front fork and a brake hose 71 extending therealong, and a guide member 73 secured to the front fork to vertically slidably support the front fork protector. The guide member has a structure for preventing the accidental rotation of the front fork protector. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2281932-A (GB)
Title: Window sash counterbalance with varying lift
Inventor: DAVIS DONALD D
IPC: E05D15/16
Filed: 1993-09-21
Abstract: A counterbalance for a vertically sliding window sash exerts a substantially constant lifting force against the sash from the lowered position to an intermediate position and a larger lifting force from the intermediate position to the raised position. Fig. 1 illustrates a counterbalance for a window sash (28) which includes a torsion spring (10), a follower nut (20), and a spiral rod (22) threadably engaged with the follower nut (20). The spiral rod (22) has a pitch that is varied along one part of its length to produce a substantially constant lifting force throughout most of a range of sash travel between a lowered position and an intermediate position. However, the pitch is further varied along another part of the length of the spiral member to produce a larger lifting force within a remaining portion of the range of sash travel from the intermediate position to the raised position. Fig. 4 illustrates an embodiment in which the substantially constant lifting force is provided by a torsion spring and the larger lifting force is provided by a spiral tension spring acting together with the torsion spring. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2282920-A (GB)
Title: Electrical connector
Inventor: HOLT DAVID GEORGE
IPC: H01R13/658
Filed: 1993-10-13
Abstract: An electrical connector (10) has a pair of mating halves comprising a plug (12) and a receptacle (14) mounted on the respective ends of cables (16, 18) to be joined. The plug (12) and receptacle (14) each have a peripheral surface or shell (21, 22) and removable insulated inserts (24, 26) mounted therein through which electrical contacts (28, 30) extend. Spring fingers (32, 34) mounted on the peripheral surfaces (21, 22) of the plug (12) and receptacle (14) retain the inserts (24, 26) and make electrical contact between the plug (12) and receptacle (14). Bands (36, 38) hold the cables (16, 18) against the inserts (24, 26) to relieve the strain on the electrical contacts (28, 30). Environmental seals (40, 42, 44) are provided to prevent the ingress of contaminants into the connector (10). A releasable locking ring (46) secures the plug (12) and receptacle (14) together.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2285816-A (GB)
Title: Emergency evacuation structure for multi-storied buildings
Inventor: LAN TUNG-HAI
IPC: A62B1/20
Filed: 1994-01-12
Abstract: An emergency evacuation structure for a multi-storied building (4) comprising a plurality of bridge corridors (1), a safety passageway (2) and temporary emergency shelters (31). Each bridge corridor (1) is connected to an emergency exit on a floor; its walls are provided with spiral-shaped channels (111A) for guiding the fire and smoke away and a passageway is provided from the top floor to the ground level. An emergency escape rod (311) passes through a man hole (312) in alternate floors. An automatic sprinkler system (211) can be provided on the intermediate wall. Decks (31) act as refuges for persons awaiting rescue. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2276978-A (GB)
Title: Capacitive absolute pressure sensor
Inventor: MASTRANGELO CARLOS HORACIO
IPC: G01L7/00
Filed: 1994-01-25
Abstract: A polysilicon diaphragm is formed on top of a sacrificial layer deposited upon a semiconductor substrate, where the thickness of the layer is controllable. The sacrificial layer is removed to define a diaphragm cavity, which is sealed with a plug. Electrodes within the surfaces defining the cavity deflect in response to variations in pressure, while providing a very small and minimum parasitic capacitance.
Patent GB-2274875-A (GB)
Title: Peg for use in automatic feeding apparatus for items of laundry
Inventor: MEHRHOFF FRIEDHELM
IPC: D06F95/00
Filed: 1994-01-28
Abstract: A peg for fixing an item of laundry to be transported in an apparatus for feeding items of laundry to a feed station of a mangle or the like on a conveyor comprises a housing (95) having a clamping wall (98) an clamping members (91, 94) (consisting of a clamping roller (107) and two clamping levers (107). Springs (112, 113) acting on respective clamping members are provided to exert a variable clamping force on an item of laundry held between the clamping members and the clamping wall and actuation levers (117) are arranged to act on the clamping levers to release the same, leaving only the clamping rollers (107) to act. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2286180-A (GB)
Title: A container combination and a method of handling containers
Inventor: MYLLARI ESA
IPC: B65D88/02
Filed: 1994-07-06
Abstract: Method and container combination, wherein at least two containers (1, 1') are handled simultaneously by a vehicle's (15) loading device (17). The two containers (1, 1') (which can be also handled separately by the loading device) have ends to be fitted against each other provided with a connecting means (7, 4). The containers are connected to one another and the container combination is lifted onto the vehicle (15) and removed from the vehicle by making the engaging means (17) of the loading device engage with the grasping component (2) of the foremost container. Various types of connections (7, 4) are disclosed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284350-A (GB)
Title: Esters and combinations of an organic nitrate and a salicylate
Inventor: BYRNE WILLIAM
IPC: A61K31/34
Filed: 1993-07-26
Abstract: A pharmaceutical product for relief of the symptoms of angina pectoris and the like comprises an ester or a combination of an organic nitrate, and a salicylate, or derivative thereof, having anti-platelet activity.
Patent GB-2286896-A (GB)
Title: Liquid crystal display device
Inventor: FUJIMORI KOICHI
IPC: G02F1/1334
Filed: 1995-02-23
Abstract: The device includes a pair of substrates 1a, 1b, a display medium including polymer 7 and liquid crystal 6, and transparent electrodes 2a, 2b formed on at least one of the substrates. The electrodes are transparent to visible light but do not easily transmit ultraviolet light. The device comprises pockets of liquid crystal 6, aligned with the electrodes, in a matrix of photopolymerised polymer 7, and is formed by exposing the mixture of liquid crystal and polymer precursor to ultraviolet light 8. The ultraviolet light passes through the spaces between the electrodes much more easily than through the electrodes and causes the polymer to collect and polymerise between the electrodes forming the desired matrix. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2287285-A (GB)
Title: Operating system for hydraulic drive elements of a vehicle folding top
Inventor: LINDMAYER MARTIN
IPC: E05F15/50
Filed: 1995-02-28
Abstract: In an operating system for hydraulic drive elements of a vehicle folding top which can be actuated by switching means, the drive elements are fed by a pressure source 5.2 from a pressure medium reservoir 5.3 via an inlet 9 and can be connected to a return to the pressure medium reservoir. The system has switchable directional control valves 13 to 17 for distributing the pressure generated by the pressure source to the drive elements 25 to 27 moving various parts and having an actuation of the directional control valves corresponding to a given sequence of movements of the top. To simplify the operating system, a plurality of operational elements 25 to 27 and 28, 30 assigned to various operating functions can be switched at the same time by means of individual directional control valves 13, 16, 17. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2293599-A (GB)
Title: Containers with decorative covers
Inventor: WRIGHT JOHN RICHARD
IPC: B65D41/62
Filed: 1995-04-20
Abstract: A container 12 is fitted with a removable cover 10. The cover has an inwardly extending tubular aperture 36 within which is located a cap 22. The cap is located adjacent a planar surface 16 of the container 12. A central surface portion 28 of the cover is recessed with respect to a peripheral surface portion 26, the depth of recessing being such that gaps where the external surfaces of the cover and the container meet, due to bowing of the central surface portion 28, are prevented. The central surface portion 28 may be provided with a bevel 32 for guiding the cap 22 into the tubular aperture 36. The cover may be provided with a lip 38 to retain the cap. The cover and cap may be provided with means such as projections (82 figure 4, 100 figure 6) to prevent or limit relative rotation. Also described is a container 12 (figure 2) having a removable cover 10 made from a flexible material. The cover and container having inter-engagable retention means 56, 64 for retaining the cover on the container. The cover 10 may be adapted to be used as a glove puppet. <IMAGE>