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Patent GB-2451681-A (GB)
Title: An integrated plural power speed changing gearbox
Inventor: MADGE JOHN GORDON
IPC: B66D1/24
Filed: 2007-08-09
Abstract: A plural power speed changing gearbox, e.g. for a winch, comprises one or more input sections each comprising two co-planar sets of gears comprising input gears 22 and 24 each meshing with two diametrically opposed intermediary gears 30A, 30B and 32A, 32B. The input gears 22, 24 of each set being mounted on an input shaft 20 and the intermediary gears 30A, 32A and 30B, 32B being rotationally fixed to shafts 21A and 21B. The input gears 22, 24 being selectively drivingly engageable, via a dog clutch 50 operated by a shift fork, to the input shaft. Intermediary gears 30A and 30B being in engagement with an output gear 40 with an axis offset and substantially parallel to that of the input shaft; the output gear forming a closed torque path. The output gear 40 may form a ring gear integrated in a differential unit of a vehicle driveline. Rotational speed synchronizing may be assisted by external means and double helical gearing may provide axial compensating movement. Compensating movement may be radial, axial, torsional or a combination of any of these.
Patent GB-2460394-A (GB)
Title: A container for keeping an electronic medical device dry.
Inventor: GALLAGHER GEORGE
IPC: A61B1/00
Filed: 2008-04-23
Abstract: A container 10 for keeping electronic devices such as syringe drivers dry and allows a tube (42, Fig. 3) extend from the interior of the container 10 to the exterior. The container 10 keeps the devices within dry by having a constricting means 30 that radially reduces the opening 26 of the container 10 and has a sealing means 38, 39 between the constricting means 30 and tube (42, Fig. 3) that provides a watertight seal. The sealing means 38, 39 can be formed of a resilient material such as neoprene. The constricting means 30 can be a cord or string around the periphery of the container opening and is disposed within a guide 28. The guide 28 can be a continuous loop or a plurality of smaller loops around the circumference of the opening 26. Once a seal has been produced a locking means 37 disposed on the constriction means maintains the watertight seal.
Patent GB-2460031-A (GB)
Title: Seal assembly
Inventor: GROOM ALEC
IPC: F04D29/12
Filed: 2008-05-13
Abstract: A seal assembly 32 for sealing a clearance gap between a boundary 47 of an aperture 36, formed in a housing 30a,30b, and a member 34 extending through the aperture 36. The seal assembly 32 has a seal member 42 and a mounting means 44 disposed around the seal member 42 and engages the aperture boundary 37. The mounting means 44 seals an alignment interspace G provided in a clearance gap between the seal member 42 and aperture boundary 47. The mounting means 44 permits the seal member 42 to be located at a position relative to the aperture boundary 47 in dependence upon the relative positions of the member 34 and aperture boundary 47 to accommodate misalignment between the member 34 and aperture boundary 47. The mounting means 44 locks the seal member 42 relative to the aperture boundary 47.
Patent GB-2450032-A (GB)
Title: Cooling a core sample
Inventor: REID LENNOX
IPC: E21B25/08
Filed: 2007-09-14
Abstract: A method of preserving hydrocarbon samples obtained from an underground formation includes delivering a coring tool 71 to the formation, obtaining a core sample 23 from the formation, receiving the sample in the tool 71, cooling the core sample 23 in the tool 71, and retrieving the tool 71 with the cooled core sample 23 to the surface. Cooling may be accomplished by Stirling refrigeration or thermoacoustic refrigeration. The temperature of the core 23 may also be measured and the temperature adjusted based on the measured temperature. Also claimed is a method of preserving hydrocarbon samples by use of a tool that involves capturing the samples in a container, sealing the container and storing the container in the tool (Figs 7-9B).
Patent GB-2463507-A (GB)
Title: Exercise Apparatus
Inventor: PIZARRO DANIEL
IPC: A63B15/00
Filed: 2008-09-16
Abstract: A method of manufacturing an exercise apparatus and an exercise apparatus (10) comprising a head region (12) and a shaft (14) attached to the head region (12), thereby forming an exercise apparatus in the shape of a racket. The head region (12) having a first cavity (22) formed therein, the first cavity (22) being arranged to receive a first weight (26). The shaft (14) having a second cavity (24) formed therein, the second cavity (24) being arranged to receive a second weight (28). The first cavity (22) may be contiguous with the second cavity (24), and the first and second weights (26, 28) may be constituted by a single weight.
Patent GB-2455620-A (GB)
Title: On-board fuel vapour separation for multi-fuel vehicle
Inventor: PURSIFULL ROSS DYKSTRA
IPC: F02B43/00
Filed: 2008-12-03
Abstract: Fuel vapor is separated on-board a vehicle, into alcohol-rich and hydrocarbon-rich components to obviate separate fuelling. The fuel vapour may be generated from an initial liquid ethanol/ gasoline mixture by the application of heat and/or vacuum, during a refuelling operation or during diurnal heating and cooling even when the vehicle is not in use. The alcohol-rich component may be condensed from the vapour phase to a liquid phase and delivered to a direct fuel injector. The relative amounts of the components injected via respective injectors may be controlled according to engine conditions. The fuel vapour may be generated on-board the vehicle from a liquid fuel containing. Separation of the fuel vapour may include passing the vapour through an adsorption canister or a selectively permeable membrane. The vapour separation system may include two adsorption canisters in parallel, the higher volatility fuel being passed through one canister while the other canister is purged. As one example, the method includes separating a first fuel and a second fuel from a fuel vapour on-board the vehicle, said fuel vapour including at least an alcohol component and a hydrocarbon component and the first fuel including a higher concentration of the alcohol component than the fuel vapour and the second fuel.
Patent GB-2466449-A (GB)
Title: Venting pipe for a vehicle fuel tank
Inventor: ARVIDSSON HANS
IPC: B60K15/035
Filed: 2008-12-18
Abstract: To prevent a mixture of vapour and liquid forming in the venting pipe 1 of a vehicle fuel tank the venting pipe 1 comprises an inner venting pipe 15 with a first end 6 extending into the fuel tank 2; an outer venting pipe 7, surrounding at least a first end portion 16 of the inner venting pipe 15 and a first end 8 of the outer venting pipe 7 extending further down than the first end 6 of the inner venting pipe 15. The outer venting 7 pipe may be open at a second end 9 providing a second path 29 for vapour to enter the inner venting pipe 15.
Patent GB-2467782-A (GB)
Title: Ski caddy
Inventor: WRITTLE STEWART
IPC: A45F5/10
Filed: 2009-02-14
Abstract: A transportation trolley for a pair of skis comprises a holder 3 mounted on a wheel 6 via a forked swivel system 5 rotatable in bearing 8 and two attachment rubber loops 1. One end of a pair of skis placed flat side to flat side may be positioned within the holder 1 for transport. The skis are held within the holder 1 by the rubber loops being stretched along the length of the skis and looped around the ski's bindings. The apparatus also includes a rubber handle (11) having a first loop (12) which is placable around the pair of skis and a second loop (10) which forms a carrying handle to be griped by a person's hand. With the handle and trolley attached to the skis the handle can be pulled to trail the trolley along the ground to transport the skies with minimal effort.
Patent GB-2465641-A (GB)
Title: Retractable pen with extendable body
Inventor: LIU YU-YIN
IPC: B43K7/12
Filed: 2009-04-07
Abstract: A retractable pen includes a triggering device, i.e. an actuating means. The retractable pen has a pen-body having two pen-tubes, a lower pen tube 1 and an upper pen tube 2, a pen-cartridge 54 within the pen-body, and an actuating means (Figs. 1A-2). The actuating means not only triggers the movement of pen-cartridge (slidable protrusion /retraction of the pen-cartridge) but also, at the meantime, triggers length-change of the pen-body (slidable movement between the two pen-tubes), the retraction-linking device comprising a stationary cam sleeve 41 having a stop edge 411 and a plurality of ribs and grooves 434, 435; a plunger 42 comprises a plurality of flat ribs 422 on a peripheral edge of one end of the plunger, concentrically around retractable -core-rod 3 (Figs.4 and 6)and at 42 and above rotating cans 43.
Patent GB-2473070-A (GB)
Title: A dispenser with a hydraulic dose counter
Inventor: WARBY RICHARD
IPC: A61M15/00
Filed: 2009-09-01
Abstract: A dispensing apparatus1comprises a housing4to receive in use a pressurised dispensing container3capable of dispensing metered doses of a product; and a dose counter20; wherein the dispensing apparatus further comprises a hydraulic system24for activating the dose counter based on movement of the received pressurised dispensing container. The pressurised dispensing container3may comprise a dispensing canister10, a metering valve12and a ferrule11. The dose counter20for counting activations of a pressurised dispensing container3may comprise a hydraulic system24; and a counter; the hydraulic system comprising a hydraulic cylinder with a primary piston25, a secondary piston26and a working fluid, wherein the secondary piston26is coupled to, or otherwise operates the counter21and the primary piston25is engaged by, fixed to, coupled to, or otherwise moved by, a pressurised dispensing container.
Patent GB-2460610-A (GB)
Title: Sparsed U-TDOA wireless location networks
Inventor: ANDERSON ROBERT J
IPC: H04W24/02
Filed: 2008-04-17
Abstract: In an overlay, U-TDOA-based, Wireless Location System, LMUs typically co-located with BTSs, are used to collect radio signaling both in the forward and reverse channels. Techniques are used to compensate for sparse LW deployments where sections of the U-TDOA service area are uplink demodulation or downlink beacon discovery limited.
Patent GB-2460803-A (GB)
Title: Cable management system and method
Inventor: TRACY MARK
IPC: G06F1/16
Filed: 2008-02-19
Abstract: A cable management system (12) comprises an electronic device (10) having a display member movably (18) coupled to a base member (16), and a printed circuit board (PCB) interconnect (40) configured to electrically couple at least one cable (50-53) received by the interconnect (40) from a device (42) in the display member (18) with at least one cable (88-91) received by the interconnect (40) from a device (44) in the base member (16).
Patent GB-2475104-A (GB)
Title: Detecting movement of 3D objects using a TOF camera
Inventor: DORR NIALL
IPC: G06K9/00
Filed: 2009-11-09
Abstract: A method and system for detecting the movement of 3D objects, in particular people, in a defined zone uses a time-of flight (TQF) camera with range-finding ability to acquire 3d positional information for each pixel in a scene. The method comprises the steps of calibrating the camera to define a zone with respect to a ground plane, such that the zone is set at a desired height relative to the ground plane; capturing a multi-array of 3D pixel data from the camera in a single frame in the defined zone; and segmenting the 3D pixel data as volume features for the subsequent purpose of object identification and tracking through multiple captured frames. The invention overcomes disadvantages of traditional multi-camera systems as image-point matching is not required, which further negates the effects of occlusion and the requirement for texture in the image. Planar surfaces with no texture can now be measured with accuracy, which is particularly important due the variety of potential surfaces encountered. Also disclosed is a method for counting people in which the above method may identify the 3D objects as people, who are counted when identified as such.
Patent GB-2475691-A (GB)
Title: Mounting arrangement for mounting item on vehicle registration plate
Inventor: HODGES KEVIN NEVILLE
IPC: B60R13/00
Filed: 2009-11-26
Abstract: A mounting arrangement 10 for mounting an item to be displayed 36 on a vehicle registration plate 12 fixed to a vehicle comprises first and second mounting members 14, 16 which engage first and second opposite edges 12a, 12b of the vehicle registration plate 12. A fastening member 26 extends between the first and second mounting members 14, 16 to maintain the first and second mounting members 14, 16 in engagement with the first and second edges 12a, 12b of the vehicle registration plate 12. The item to be displayed 36 is provided on at least one of the first and second mounting members 14, 16. The fastening member 26 may include a tie wrap which may cooperate with a ratchet mechanists 32.
Patent GB-456309-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in two-stroke internal combustion engines
IPC: F01L5/06
Filed: 1936-04-06
Abstract: 456,309. Valves; cylinders. DAIMLERBENZ AKT.-GES., Untert³rkheim, Stuttgart, Germany. April 6, 1936, No. 10111.. Convention date, April 4, 1935. [Classes 7 (ii) and 7 (vi)] In a two-stroke engine, inlet ports e are controlled by the piston only, while further inlet ports e<1> are controlled by both the piston and a slide valve s, which also in conjunction with the piston controls exhaust ports a. The valve is slotted at r so as to slide over internal projections h on the cylinder, which bring the ports e against the piston. The exhaust ports a are substantially radial, but the inlet ports e, e<1> are directed towards a point M opposite the exhaust ports, and may also be oblique in relation to the cylinder head. The main inlets e are lower than the subsidiary inlets e<1>, and the former may serve chiefly for scavenging-air, and the latter for the air, gas, or mixture charge.
Patent GB-610231-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to tap and reamer wrenches
IPC: B23G1/26
Filed: 1946-04-02
Abstract: 610,231. Wrenches. FRIEDEL, R. April 2, 1946, No. 10132. [Class 61 (iii)] A tap or reamer wrench comprises a head 1 with handles 2, 3 and jaws 7, 8 of round-section received in longitudinal cylindrical bores 9 in the head, the jaw 7 being fixed by pinning or by a set screw 11 and the movable jaw 8 guided against turning by a key 18 and slot 16 and actuated by the handle 3, the end of which is in screw-threaded engagement with the body 1 and connected to the jaw by a set screw 14 and groove 13. In a modification the movable jaw has a right-and-left screw connection with the handle.
Patent GB-880920-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to degasification equipment for insulating and impregnating oils
Inventor: HEDRICH WILHELM
IPC: B01D19/00
Filed: 1960-03-22
Abstract: Oil to be degasified is fed by a pump through a conduit 2 into a container 3 in which are fitted <PICT:0880920/III/1> built-in parts 4, represented in the example shown as irrigation plates.  The heated oil spreads over the irrigation plates and so assumes a large surface area and emits gases and vapours easily. With the container 3 a vacuum pump 6 is joined by means of a conduit 5.  This sucks out gases and vapours from the container 3 and passes them through conduit 7 into the air.  The oil which has collected on the floor of the container 3, and which is already extensively degasified, flows through a conduit 8 to a second container 9.  A part 10 of the conduit 8 is the shape of a U-tube and forms a gastight seal between the containers 3 and 9.  The container 9 is also fitted with built-in parts 4 and is joined to a pump 12 through a conduit 11, the pressure conduit 13 of which is connected to the suction piping 5 of the pump 6, that is to say the pump 6 acts as a pre-vacuum pump for the pump 12.  The oil flows from the container 9 through a conduit 14, corresponding to the conduit 8, and into a container 15.  A high vacuum pump 17 is connected to this by a conduit 16, the pressure piping of this pump being joined to the suction piping 11 of the pump 12.  The construction shown in the drawings has three containers but a larger number may be used.  If the container 15 is the last one, then the oil flows through a conduit 19 into a collecting reservoir 20, from which the degasified and dried oil can then be removed.
Patent GB-215540-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to observation mirrors for motor road vehicles and the like
IPC: B60R1/06
Filed: 1923-04-16
Abstract: 215,540. Griffiths, R. W., and Griffiths, T. L., (trading as Griffiths & Sons, E.). April 16,1923. Look-out reflectors.-A support for an observation mirror for motor road vehicles &c. comprises a triangular frame attached along its base to the vehicle, the mirror being mounted at its apex. The frame consists of a member 4 shaped to fit the support 5 to which it is secured by band clips 6, tubular arms 1 and a junction member 2. A cylindrical member 8 held by the member 2 has a cupped flange 9 in which is seated a hemispherical boss 12 on the back of the mirror 3 which is secured to the member 8 by a part spherical cup 13, bolt 14 and wing-nut 17. A spring. pressed cup 19 keeps the cup 13 in contact with the boss 12 during adjustment. For the curved handlebars of cycles &c. the base member may be in two parts inclined at an angle.
Patent GB-107440-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Expansible Bracelets.
Inventor: USHER REUBEN
IPC: A44C5/08
Filed: 1916-07-21
Abstract: 107,440. Usher, R. July 21, 1916. Bracelets.-Relates to expansible bracelets of which the outer and inner links are made by shaping up metal blanks and closing the ends by hand or press tools without the use of solder. Fig. 4 shows a blank shaped up to form a hollow outer link a comprising concave side bars c, d and end bars e, f. After the insertion of two inner links i, the two parts f<2>, f<3> of the divided bar fare rigidly secured together by bending around them an H-shaped metal blank h. Fig. 9 shows an inner link bent from a flat metal strip; the link is closed by passing the inturned extremities o of the divided end bar n through a central opening in a tie-plate q and then bending them back over the edges of the plate. Springs r are disposed between the end bars n, e of the inner and outer links respectively.
Patent GB-182571-A (GB)
Title: Plate registering mechanism for printing machines
IPC: B41F27/12
Filed: 1921-04-07
Abstract: 182,571. Barker, R. W., (American Bank Note Co.). April 7, 1921. Printing-surfaces.-In mechanism for clamping a flexible metal printing-plate on to its cylinder, of the kind in which the ends of the plate are gripped between pairs of bars arranged within recesses in the cylinder, and so mounted as to permit the plate to be adjusted axially, circumferentially, and angularly of the cylinder, the clamping bars are secured within the recesses in the cylinder by a series of retaining-plates spaced apart between the ends of the bars. Fig. 2 shows a section of the cylinder in two different planes and Figs. 3 and 4 show the clamp-bars. The clamping-mechanisms at both sides of the plate b are similar and each comprises a lower bar c, having a bevelled edge c<1> and a straight shoulder c<2>, and an upper bar d pivoted to the bar c by means of a rib d<2> and engaging the groove c<3> and secured thereto by bolts e. The bar d has a tongue d<1> co-operating with the edge c', and a number of recesses d<3> to facilitate the positioning of the plate. The bars are held by plates i secured to the cylinder and passing through gaps d' in the bars d and openings c' of the bars c, the back edge of the openings c' being rounded to permit a pivotal movement of the bars upon the plates i. The bars are spaced from the shoulders a', a<2> of the cylinder by bolts g screwed into the bar c and provided with lock-nuts g', and by screws f screwed through the bar c in alignment with the recesses c<5>, and having rounded ends engaging the shoulders a<1> and a block h fixed to the cylinder. The bolts g engage bars m which are held in the plane of the shoulders by cam-bars n but which may be depressed to loosen the plate b by turning cam-bars n by a spanner applied to its squared ends. Circumferential adjustment of the plate b is effected by the bolts g, either alone or in conjunction with the screws f, and skewing of the plate may be effected by adjustment of the bolts and screws at one end only of the cylinder. Axial adjustment of the plate is obtained by means of screws or studs k, Fig. 6, secured to the end plates a<3> of the cylinder and carrying nuts k' engaging the ends of the clamp bars c, d.
Patent GB-1099444-A (GB)
Title: Steam-reforming of hydrocarbons for production of high methane content gas
IPC: B01J23/70
Filed: 1966-03-09
Abstract: A methane-rich gas is made by reacting a vaporized hydrocarbon feedstock with steam over a nickel-alumina-aluminium catalyst at superatmospheric pressure (preferably 5 to 30 atmospheres) and at a temperature between 650 DEG  and 1050 DEG  F. (343 DEG  and 566 DEG C.). Feedstocks include liquefied petroleum gases, naphthas, and petroleum distillates, and the steam to hydrocarbon ratio should not exceed 4.5 to 1 by weight.  Specific examples are described.
Patent GB-667755-A (GB)
Title: An improved oil burner
Inventor: JONES ROBERT FREDERICK
IPC: F23D11/10
Filed: 1950-04-27
Abstract: 667,755. Liquid-fuel burners. CLYDE FUEL SYSTEMS, Ltd. April 27, 1950. No. 10385/50. Class 75(i). In an oil burner incorporating a cylindrical casing 4, Fig. 1, having a valve-controlled air or steam inlet port 5 and a cylindrical outlet port 6, a tubular burner body 2 having air or steam inlet ports 14 and a nozzle 3, and an oil pipe 1 spaced within the body 2, the interior surface of the wall of the casing 4 is joined to the edge of the outlet port 6 by a converging conical wall 10 and the nozzle 3 is provided with spaced vanes 12, Fig. 4, presenting slots 11 therebetween, the outer edges of surfaces of the vanes 12 being of converging form and of the same conicity as and mating with the wall 10. The air or steam is passed under pressure into casing 4 through an inlet port 5 controlled by a valve 7, and a part passes through the swirl ports 14 and is discharged through the nozzle 3 around the oil jet from the tube 1, whilst the remainder passes through the slots 11 into the stream of oil and air or steam within the port 6. The slots 11 may swirl the air or steam in a direction opposite to the swirl effected by the oprts 14 which are directed tangentially into the body 2, thereby providing a short broad flame. Alternatively the slots 11 may converge on the axial centre line of the burner, whereby the flame may be elongated.