baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2454485-A (GB)
Title: Method of disposing of non-nuclear hazardous waste materials
Inventor: EADON DESMOND GERARD
IPC: B09B3/00
Filed: 2007-11-08
Abstract: A method of disposing of non-nuclear, inorganic hazardous waste materials, which method comprises compacting a sinterable hazardous waste material into a regular shape to form a hazardous waste core, coating the formed core with a glass composition or a glass precursor composition, and heating the coated core to form a fully dense or relatively low porosity, continuous, inert, water and acid insoluble, non-toxic glassy shell surrounding a fully dense or relatively low porosity core, wherein the glass shell forms a physical barrier to leaching and wherein the glass shell and the core consist of distinct phases.
Patent GB-2454662-A (GB)
Title: Biometric based identity confirmation
Inventor: FLETCHER DAVID CHARLES
IPC: G06K9/00
Filed: 2007-11-13
Abstract: The identity of an individual is securely registered by providing a biometric sample of the individual, deriving from the sample an addressable digital sequence, deriving a set of characteristic data points from the digital sequence and then scrambling the set of characteristic data points and destroying the original biometric sample and the digital sequence. To confirm the identity of the individual, a further biometric sample is provided and a further set of characteristic data points are generated and then scrambled for comparison with the registered data. The set of characteristic data points may be selected from the digital sequence from locations chosen by a pseudo random number sequence and may be scrambled using a one-way algorithm. The key used to scramble the set of characteristic data points may be derived from the biometric. The system of the invention comprises an Identity Safe that stores registration information, performs registration and identification token matching and communicates control and algorithm information, and a Biometric Management Apparatus that collects biometric information, produces a unique identity token based on instructions from the identity safe and destroys the facsimile datasets reflecting the biometric sample and original biometric sample. The invention enables registration and identification of individuals through the collection of biometric(s) and transcoding of the resulting dataset, into a unique identity token.
Patent GB-2444373-A (GB)
Title: Inertial sensor
Inventor: ACKERLEY NICHOLAS JASON
IPC: G01C21/16
Filed: 2007-11-22
Abstract: A long-period weak-motion inertial sensor (13) comprising: a frame (2) having a frame mounting surface (6); a movable mass (3) having a movable mass mounting surface (8); a transducer (14) for sensing displacements of the movable mass with respect to the frame; and a monolithic flexure element (1) for suspending the movable mass in the frame. The monolithic flexure element comprising: a stiff frame integral clamp (5, fig.4) attachable to the frame mounting surface of the frame; a stiff movable mass integral clamp (7, fig.4) attachable to the movable mass mounting surface of the movable mass; and a stiffest flexible region (4) for operatively connecting the frame integral clamp to the movable mass integral clamp. The frame and movable mass mounting surfaces do not overlap the stiffest flexible region, thereby minimizing the generation of creep and hysteresis noise. The variation in stiffness of the monolithic flexure element is controlled by varying thickness along the length of the flexure element.
Patent GB-2455734-A (GB)
Title: Downhole steering system with swash plate
Inventor: SHEPHERD MICHAEL
IPC: E21B7/06
Filed: 2007-12-19
Abstract: A steerable system comprises a first rotatable housing 22, a second rotatable housing 24 connected to the first rotatable housing by an adjustable joint 26, a cam member 42 held against rotation, and a cam follower moveable to drive the second rotatable housing for movement relative to the first rotatable housing about the adjustable joint. The cam may be a swash plate and the system may include a dog clutch 30. Linear actuators 16 may be used to adjust the swash plate and the actuators may be hydraulically, eloctromagnetically or electrically driven.. The follower may be in the form of follower pistons.
Patent GB-2441937-A (GB)
Title: Antibodies for anthrax
Inventor: LOVE TRACEY ELIZABETH
IPC: A61K39/395
Filed: 2006-07-12
Abstract: A targeted approach is described for the production of biological recognition elements capable of fast, specific detection of anthrax spores on biosensor surfaces. Single chain antibodies (scFvs) are produced to EA1, a Bacillus anihracis S-layer protein that is also present, although is not identical, in related Bacillus species. These antibodies detect Bacillus anthracis EA1 protein and intact spores with a high degree of specificity, but do not detect other Bacillus species. Recombinant anti-EA1 scFvs were isolated from an B. anthracis immune library that contained antibody genes raised against B. anthracis spores and purified exosporium. Two approaches for scFv selection are disclosed; standard (non-competitive) panning, and competitive panning. The non-competitive bio-panning strategy isolated scFvs that recognised EA1 from B. anthracis, but also cross-reacted with other Bacillus species. In contrast, the competitive panning approach used S-layer proteins from otherBacillus species to compete out any cross reacting antibodies, generating scFvs that were highly specific to B. anthracis EA1 and demonstrated apparent nanomolar binding affinities. The specific, real time detection of B. anthracis spores was demonstrated with these scFvs by using an evanescent wave biosensor, the Resonant Mirror. The approach described here can be used to generate specific antibodies to any desired target where homologous proteins also exist in closely related species, and demonstrates clear advantages to using recombinant technology to produce biological recognition elements for detection of biological threat agents.
Patent GB-2442681-A (GB)
Title: Method for enabling the efficient operation of arbitrarily interconnected mesh networks
Inventor: JETCHEVA JORGETA
IPC: H04L45/02
Filed: 2006-07-19
Abstract: Wireless mesh networks (or "meshes") are enabled for arbitrary interconnection to each other and may provide varying levels of coverage and redundancy as desired. Interoperability between meshes having differing configurations, internal operations, or both, may be freely intermixed and inter-operated in unrestricted combination. Enhanced explicit inter-bridge control protocols operate using pre-existing control packets. Pre-existing broadcast packet floods are used to learn the best paths across interconnected meshes (termed a "multi-mesh"). Enhanced routing protocols operating within each mesh may optionally examine information limited to the respective mesh when forwarding traffic, thus enabling robust multi-mesh scaling with respect to memory and processing time required by the routing protocols. Communication scalability is improved by enabling frequency diversity across the multi-mesh by configuring meshes within interference range of each other for operation at a plurality of frequencies. Each mesh may operate at a respective non-interfering frequency.
Patent GB-2458104-A (GB)
Title: Tide powered pump
Inventor: HATCHWELL PAUL KRISTIAN
IPC: F03B13/26
Filed: 2008-02-29
Abstract: A tide powered pump has a floating platform 1 supported by a piston and cylinder arrangement 5, 4. Movement of the platform 1 pumps fluid which may be used for energy or resource production. The platform may be used as a base to support, for example, other types of energy generator. The pumping chamber may comprise a compressible vessel instead of the piston and cylinder arrangement (figure 8). The device may also be used in other areas of variable water level, such as on land subject to periodic flooding.
Patent GB-2458641-A (GB)
Title: Golf club with splined adjustable angle head
Inventor: MARTIN RAY
IPC: A63B53/06
Filed: 2008-03-25
Abstract: A golf club head 1 may have a series of splines or teeth A thereon which engage with a corresponding series of splines B which are provided in the shaft 2 of a golf club. A locking nut 4 is provided to lock the head with respect to the shaft in a desired angle thereby setting the loft of the club. The lock nut engages with a thread provided on a shank of said golf club head. A locking lever 3 may be provided to give extra leverage to the locknut.
Patent GB-2454544-A (GB)
Title: Guide arrangement for mobile storage racking
Inventor: TOURDOT MATTHEW A
IPC: A47B53/02
Filed: 2008-04-07
Abstract: A guide arrangement includes a longitudinally extending axial guide 20 defining a first upwardly open slot in a floor, a drive rail 22 parallel thereto alonf which a drive wheel may run, a guide member 36 extending downwardly from a carriage 24 running on the rail and the axial guide 20 includes spaced apart engagement members 48 that engage the guide member 36 as it moves along the slot. The engagement members 48 may be in the form of a plurality of rollers or low friction guides e.g. with nylon surfaces. The slots may be very narrow, e.g. by means of cover plates (58 fig. 3). An anti-tip assembly including hooks (86 fig. 4) on the carriage 24 and lips (68 fig 4) on the drive rail 22 may prevent the tipping of units as they move along the axial guide and drive rail. A low friction guide (100 fig. 5) may be secured to the carriage 24 and run along the drive rail 22, the top surfaces of the guide 20 and drive rail 22 may be flush with a floor surface.
Patent GB-2449042-A (GB)
Title: Erythroid cells producing adult-type b-hemoglobin generated from human embryonic stem cells
Inventor: SLUKVIN IGOR I
IPC: C12N5/078
Filed: 2007-02-08
Abstract: Methods and compositions of erythroid cells that produce adult   b  -hemoglobin, generated by culturing CD31+, CD31+/CD34+ or CD34+ cells from embryonic stem cells under serum-free culture conditions.
Patent GB-2452422-A (GB)
Title: Gaming apparatus and systems
Inventor: ELLIS BENJAMIN JAMES
IPC: A63F13/10
Filed: 2008-10-30
Abstract: Gaming apparatus, e.g. an Electronic Gaming Machine (EGM) (1), includes a controller (2) for implementing e.g. a slot-machine game, casino-type game or other betting game. The EGM (1) displays a gaming image on a display (6), e.g. virtual symbol reels or card hands, and receives player instructions via an input (7), e.g. to spin the reels or manage the cards. The EGM (1) includes a means for playing a game and for receiving bets, and means for monitoring game events over a number of plays of the game. It also includes means for placing one or more series bets on the occurrence of game events over a series of game plays, and series win means for determining that a player has won a series bet based on the bet placed and the monitored events. The monitored game events may be prize events, e.g. the winning of a cash amount, or feature events, e.g. the triggering of a bonus round, free game or the like. The series bet win may be a prize, e.g. a jackpot, or may be some other valuable feature.
Patent GB-2454778-A (GB)
Title: Corrosion detecting structural health sensor
Inventor: SHEFFIELD GREGORY L
IPC: G01N17/04
Filed: 2008-11-04
Abstract: A sensor device 100 for monitoring and testing for potential corrosion of structural elements 102 is disclosed. A membrane 104 including a thin conductor sense loop 106 within it may be disposed near a structural element 102 to be monitored. Measured changes in the electrical properties of the conductor sense loop reveal corrosion of the conductor 106 and can indicate potential corrosion in the structural element 102. The sensor may also be implemented as a gasket. Connection to the sensor device may be through a connector or using a wireless reader which remotely energizes the sensor device. The sensor device 100 may also be used for sensing fractures 108. Therefore the membrane 104 should be made of a frangible material and the conductor sense loop 106 should be breakable.
Patent GB-2465780-A (GB)
Title: A cleaning appliance
Inventor: BROUGH IAN JOHN
IPC: A47L5/28
Filed: 2008-11-28
Abstract: A cleaning appliance such as a vacuum cleaner comprises a main body (2, fig 1) housing a motor and fan unit 3 for generating a fluid flow. The main body (2, fig 1) also houses a removable pre-motor filter 20 located upstream of the motor and fan 3 and a removable post-motor filter (21, fig 5) located downstream of the motor and fan 3. It is beneficial to permit the user to be able to monitor the condition of both the pre-motor filter 20 and the post-motor filter (21, fig 5), and to remove and replace them as required, and so access to both filters may be provided. It is more important that the user checks the pre-motor filter 20 as it gets dirtier than the post-motor filter (21, fig 5). Therefore, the post-motor filter (21, fig 5) is not accessible or removable from the main body until the pre-motor filter 20 is removed from the main body, by removing its housing 24. Removal of the housing 24 using catch 26 preferably allows the catch (28, fig 4) of the post-motor housing to be revealed.
Patent GB-2460955-A (GB)
Title: Online banking through a gaming console
Inventor: SHNOWSKE DANIEL P
IPC: G06F21/24
Filed: 2009-06-17
Abstract: Online banking using a gaming console 503 is provided by establishing a network connection between gaming console 503 and remote financial institution 501. To access a financial account, console 503 transmits an authorization request 2 to the financial institution, the request including one or more credentials specific to the gaming console, e.g. a unique console identifier, client side certificate or unique key. Access to the financial account is granted 5 in response to verifying the credentials are valid and a secure connection may be established. Console-specific credentials may be hardcoded in one or more hardware components (e.g. a chip) of the gaming console, reducing risk of exposure through tampering or hacking. User-specific credentials (e.g. account name, account number, password, gamer tag, gaming profile, PIN) may be used to further verify that a user or console is authorized to access a financial account. An integrity of the console may also be validated 3 using console-specific information (e.g. indicating whether console is stolen) which may be provided by a gaming service provider 505.
Patent GB-2472850-A (GB)
Title: Railway rail pad
Inventor: COX STEPHEN JOHN
IPC: E01B9/68
Filed: 2009-08-21
Abstract: The pad (1), for use beneath a railway rail in a rail fastening assembly as cushioning and/or electrical insulation, has first and second major faces (2, 3), the first face (2) having a rail seat portion (20) on which a foot of a railway rail sits when the pad (1) is in use, and side members (4A, 4B) attached to and extending from two opposite edges of the first face (2) of the pad (1). The side members (4A, 4B) are arranged so as to be located on respective opposite sides of the railway rail when the pad (1) is in use such that the rail seat portion (20) of the pad (1) lies between respective inwardly-facing wall faces (41A, 41B) of the said side members (4A, 4B). When the pad (1) is not under load and is placed so as to rest on a surface with the first face (2) of the pad (1) uppermost and part of the surface lying beneath the rail seat portion of the pad, an inclination angle (a1, a2) between the wall face (41A, 41B) of each side member (4A, 4B) and that part of the surface beneath the rail seat portion on which the pad (1) is resting is greater than 90. The first face (2) has a convex form and the second face (3) has a concave form.
Patent GB-2472993-A (GB)
Title: A raisable and reconfigurable armoured tower
Inventor: ARDERN FERGUS JOHNATHAN
IPC: E04B1/34
Filed: 2009-08-25
Abstract: A tower assembly1has an armored enclosure2, sufficiently armoured to resist at least small arms fire and an enclosure raiser3, arranged to reversibly raise said enclosure2. The assembly may be mounted on a vehicle10and the enclosure 1 may be reconfigurable. The enclosure may be able to be expanded to different sizes by moving between a fist configuration having a first floor space and a second configuration having a larger floor space. The enclosure may have a roof9which is reversibly raisable to provide a gap between the roof and an adjacent wall, for observation or deployment of weapons.
Patent GB-2474654-A (GB)
Title: An arrest system for a zorb
Inventor: KNIGHT PAUL
IPC: A63B19/02
Filed: 2009-10-21
Abstract: An arrest system for use in zorbing or globe riding comprises regions of hook and eye or hook and loop material. One section of the material is disposed on the outer surface of a zorb 10, while other section is disposed on at least one fixed surface (16, 18, 20, figure 1) over which the zorb passes. Preferably, the eye material 14a surrounds the zorb, and is supported by a bag having an open woven structure such as a mesh or netting 14. The bag may comprise an elasticated drawstring neck 21, aligned with the entrance passage or tunnel 19 of the zorb. The fixed surface, which preferably supports the hook material, may include one or more boards (20a - 20d, figure 3) anchored to a frame supported or buried in the ground. Also disclosed is a method of deploying the arrest system including inflation the zorb whilst inside the bag.
Patent GB-2462022-A (GB)
Title: Controlled release compositions for use in reducing circulating levels of platelets
Inventor: GLIDDEN PAUL F
IPC: A61K9/20
Filed: 2009-03-31
Abstract: Use of a controlled release composition comprising a platelet reducing agent having a 3 month shelf stability for use in the treatment and/or prevention of platelet related conditions or disorders including haematological proliferative disorders, myloproliferative disorders and thrombotic and vaso-occulsive disorders. The composition may comprise a solid support core; an optional preparatory coat; a substrate layer comprising a binder and microparticles of a platelet number reducing agent such as anagrelide or a derivative thereof which is present in a form that has a shelf stability of at least 3 months; a release control component effective for the controlled release of the platelet number reducing agent; and an optional finishing coat and/or enteric coating. The composition may further comprise a seal coat layer which may be dispersed between the substrate layer and the release control component. The composition may be administered together with other therapeutic agents. Methods and pharmaceutical preparations comprising such agents are also provided.
Patent GB-635432-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in cam or eccentric operated mechanism
IPC: F16H53/06
Filed: 1948-04-09
Abstract: 635,432. Cams and tappets. ROSE, A. G., and ROSE BROS. (GAINSBOROUGH), Ltd. April 9, 1948, No. 10035. [Class 80 (iii)] A cam mechanism having a movable arm 17 operated by a cam 20 has on the arm a roller 19 resiliently held in contact with the cam by means of a rubber insert securing the arm to a support 18. In one form, a rubber bush 21 has inner and outer sleeves 23, 22 bonded thereto, the inner sleeve being bolted to the support 18 and the outer sleeve being secured to the arm 17. In another form a part of the length of the arm 17 between the cam and the support is of rubber, the arm being bolted to the support 18. '
Patent GB-197161-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in washing plungers and pounders
IPC: D06F15/00
Filed: 1922-04-08
Abstract: 197,161. Merifield, W. H. April 8, 1922. Washing-plungers.-Rubber bell-shaped washing-plungers are strengthened at the circumference by a canvas or metal reinforcing strip 4. A depression is formed in the upper part of the plunger and an integral socket 3 is carried therein to receive the operating handle. The plunger is strengthened, as at 6, in the vicinity of the socket, which latter may also be bound round with rings or clips 11, and provided with a metal lining 10.
Patent GB-854508-A (GB)
Title: Gyroscopic apparatus
Inventor: SEDGFIELD HUGH BROUGHAM
IPC: F16C39/04
Filed: 1956-03-29
Abstract: 854,508. Gyroscopic apparatus. SPERRY GYROSCOPE CO. Ltd. March 28, 1957 [March 29, 1956], No. 10042/56. Drawings to Specification. Class 97(3) [Also in Group XXXIV] In a gyroscopic apparatus, the rotor is enclosed in a case which is gimbal supported inside a mercury filled chamber. The bearings between the chamber and gimbal are of the fluid flow type, the mercury being forced through them, by an electrodynamic mercury pump, into the chamber. Two embodiments are described in which the bearings are conical and spherical respectively. An expansion chamber allows for differences in the thermal expansion of the mercury and solid members. In both embodiments, a constriction is incorporated in the mercury flow path whereby the mercury pressure between the bearing and seating surfaces is reduced to half of the supply pressure when the surfaces are centralised. With the conical bearings, relative movement of the chamber and gimbal, to restrict the flow of mercury between the bearing and seating at one bearing, causes an increase of mercury pressure at this bearing and a corresponding reduction at the other so that the gimbal is centralised by the resultant hydraulic thrust. With the spherical bearings, each is separately centralised in its own seating; one of the bearings is secured to and determines the location of the gimbal relative to the chamber, and the gimbal spindle at the second bearing is slidable therein. Specifications 841,944, 854,506 and 855,507 are referred to.
Patent GB-600765-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to processes of preparing interpolymers of vinyl aromatic compounds, and the products resulting therefrom
IPC: C08F22/30
Filed: 1945-04-20
Abstract: Interpolymers are prepared by heating a mixture of a vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon and fumarodinitrile containing between 0.15 and 50 per cent by weight of fumarodinitrile.  Polymerization may be effected in mass, emulsion or in solution.  The fumarodinitrile may be dissolved in the monomeric styrene itself or the mixture may be dissolved in solvents such as dioxane, ethylene dichloride and the lower aliphatic alcohols.  Temperatures up to 120 DEG  C., but preferably below 100 DEG  C., may be employed.  Suitable vinyl aromatic hydrocarbons in place of or in addition to styrene are o-, m- and p-methyl, ethyl or propyl styrene, vinyl naphthalene, alpha-methyl styrene and alpha-methyl-p-alkyl styrenes.  When present in an amount of less than 30 per cent of the mixture, fumarodinitrile polymerizes at a faster rate than styrene and at a slower rate when present to an extent greater than 30 per cent. To obtain uniform products, the concentration of either monomer should be kept constant and polymerization should be carried to a 30 per cent conversion in the absence of a solvent or a 70 per cent conversion in a solvent.  A table is given showing the relationship between the compositions of the monomeric mixture and of the initial interpolymer produced.  The polymers may be recovered by precipitation in an alcohol. Interpolymers containing up to 14 per cent of copolymerized fumarodinitrile are soluble in aromatic hydrocarbons, chlorinated hydrocarbons, dioxane and acetone.  Those containing above 14 per cent of fumarodinitrile are soluble in dioxane, acetone and ethylene dichloride.  Catalysts such as benzoyl peroxide, acetyl peroxide and ammonium persulphate may be used in the polymerization. Emulsion polymerization is also described using aqueous solutions of mono- and di-sodium orthophosphates, lauryl sodium sulphate, sodium perborate and carbon tetrachloride.  The mixture may also be polymerized in the presence of a plasticiser such as butyl phthalyl butyl glycollate. The products may be extruded into filaments or cast or moulded into articles.