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Patent GB-2140936-A (GB)
Title: Electronic flash with remote sensor
Inventor: MANNHEIMER LEE REYNOLD
IPC: G03B15/05
Filed: 1984-05-25
Abstract: A flash unit, capable of operating as a remote or slave flash, has a dome 14, which surrounds the flash bulb 20 and is in light conducting relationship with a photodetector 24. On receipt of a predetermined quantity of light the detector triggers the bulb to flash. By using the dome light from a large directional range causes the bulb to flash. In an alternative embodiment the dome is connected to a light pipe which conducts light to the detector. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2145201-A (GB)
Title: Mechanical mine-triggering device actuated by a trip wire or the like
Inventor: TADDEO VITO
IPC: F42C14/08
Filed: 1984-05-29
Abstract: A mechanical mine-triggering device actuated by a trip wire (41) or the like and comprising: a casing (1); a striker (6) movingly guided in a seat (4,5) in the casing (1) from an armed position to a released position; spring means (7) permanently biassing the striker (6) towards the released position and means for releasably retaining the striker (6) in the armed position against the force of the spring means, characterised in that the means for releasably retaining the striker (6) in the armed position against the force of the spring means comprise: a throat (16) in the striker (6); an aperture (12) with which the casing (1) is formed opposite the seat (4, 5); a ball (15) received in the aperture (12) and movable from a first position, in which the ball is in engagement with the throat (16), into a second position, in which it is clear of the throat (16); and removable stop means for maintaining the ball in its first position, the stop means being mechanically actuated by the strip wire (41). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2142108-A (GB)
Title: Fastener for securing roofing sheeting over soft insulating material to a fixed support
Inventor: BOEGEL GERHARD
IPC: F16B5/02
Filed: 1984-06-18
Abstract: A fastener (1) for securing roofing sheeting over soft insulating material to a fixed support, comprises a screw (4) with a drilling tip (6) and a self-tapping screw-thread (7), and a plate washer (5) loosely received on a threadless shank portion (10) immediately adjacent the head (9) of the screw (4), so that the washer (5) can tilt. In the upper side of the washer, a recess (13) is formed for accommodating the screw head (9). An abutment in the form of a protruding collar or projection is arranged at a distance from the screw head (9) in or at the end of the thread-less shank portion (10); the abutment may be formed by the thread end. The fastener (1) is thus able to withstand being trodden upon. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2142543-A (GB)
Title: Stoma bag with locking ring
Inventor: HENTTONEN JUHA ANTERO
IPC: A61F5/445
Filed: 1984-06-29
Abstract: A bag supportable upon a person for receiving discharges from a stoma and having a hollow interior (11) defined by inner (10, 14) and outer (12) opposing walls connected along their edges. The inner wall has an inlet opening (57) for receiving the stoma and an extension of this wall (10) and/or a layer of adhesive tape (45) around the inlet opening is compressively clamped between clamping surfaces of inner (33) and outer (31) snap rings of a bag supporting carrying ring (30). Positive interference between interlocked engaging means on the clamping surfaces prevents removal of the inner ring from its clamping position within the outer ring unless the interlocking relationship is broken by distortion of the rings. The carrying ring (30) also may carry a belt (70) for engaging body surfaces to hold the bag in position relative to the stoma. A comfort layer (14) of porous material also may be provided as a part of the inner wall (10) and covering for the external surface of the inner bag wall (10) resting against the body. The adhesive layer (45) and/or the comfort layer (14) may be clamped between the inner (33) and outer (31) snap rings along with the inner bag wall extension. The carrying ring may support a gasket (54) of moisture absorbing gum for sealingly engaging a surface of the body adjacent to the stoma.
Patent GB-2144460-A (GB)
Title: Partitions
Inventor: GIFFORD ROGER ANDREW
IPC: E04B2/74
Filed: 1984-07-18
Abstract: A partition is built of spaced columns 12 having mutually opposed channels between which insulating blocks or panels 14 extend. A column 12 provides a pair of channels facing different ways. It may be a pair of channel 14 members 22,24 interconnected via complementary formations 32,34. The columns 12 may support cladding 20. They may be embraced top and bottom by channel members 16-18 extending along the partition. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2162447-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus cutting to length, crimping and/or bending wires of electrical components
Inventor: YAIR JOHN DAVID
IPC: H05K13/04
Filed: 1984-08-01
Abstract: The apparatus has a housing 1 formed by a top plate 2 and a bottom plate 3 secured by and extending between opposed side plates 4. Each plate 2 and 3 is formed from an extruded metal sheet with open ended channels 5 to receive self tapping screws to secure the side plates to plates 2, 3. A drive shaft 6 has ratchet wheels 9 carrying electric components fed thereto through guides 37 to cutting wheels 23 and anvil plates 19 by which the connecting wires are successively cut to length and bent. The anvil plates 19 and cutting wheels 23 are slidable along a rod 15 carried between the side plates 4. The anvil plates are adjustable along the rod 15 by a scale plate 29 displaceable in a slideway 30 extruded in the top plate. The ratchet wheels 9 are adjustable along the shaft 6 to change the cutting/bending characteristics together with adjustment of the parts on the rod 15. The guides 37 are adjustable along a track and channel 38, 39 on the top plate to accommodate different length components. The bottom plate 3 may be extruded with complementary upper and lower projections 48 and recesses 49 so that two such plates can be stacked and secured together to provide a stable base and change the height of the apparatus. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2141379-A (GB)
Title: Variable density multilayer composite material
Inventor: KLEIN RAYMOND
IPC: A63C5/12
Filed: 1983-12-12
Abstract: Multilayer composite material comprising a core layer (10) which is formed of woven synthetic or metal yarns or fibers (12), and which is impregnated with a plastic material (14), the density of said core layer being variable in its thickness and increasing from its medial plane up to its outer faces, the material further comprising at least one outer coating layer (16, 18) formed for example by yarns or fibers (19) embedded in a plastic material compatible with that of the medial or core layer (10), the outer fibers/medial plane density ratio of the material being comprised between 3 and 13.
Patent GB-2149469-A (GB)
Title: Sealing grommet for leads passing through bodywork openings
Inventor: FEITH MANFRED
IPC: B60H1/00
Filed: 1984-08-17
Abstract: A sealing grommet to be fitted in a bodywork opening for leads to pass through, has a grommet body 5 (upper part of Figure 1) which consists of a resilient plastics material and is provided with a sealing lip which is to be held against the bodywork surface surrounding the opening by way of a catch. In to the sealing grommet there is inserted, snapped or moulded a reinforcement member 10 of more rigid plastics material, such that it supports the sealing lip 5 from the inside by means of a flange portion 9 and extends beyond the annular groove 6 corresponding to the bodywork opening to form an easily snapped-in catch 10. Alternatively, a bayonet or screw fixing may be used. The plastics bellows 1 may be integral with the body 5, or may be omitted. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2146959-A (GB)
Title: Self sealing pneumatic tire
Inventor: DOBSON ROBERT LOREN
IPC: B29C73/16
Filed: 1984-09-19
Abstract: An open network structure (6) containing a sealant composition is enveloped between the usual inner liner of the tyre and a cover strip (7). The open network structure (6) may be either a flexible open-cell rubber or polyurethane foam or a mat of woven or non-woven organic polymer filaments bonded at at least 80% of their crossings and having a softening point of at least 200 DEG C. The sealant composition may include uncured cis 1,4-polyisoprene rubber or butyl rubber; rubber processing oil or polybutene; polyisobutylene; particulate carbon black; clay; tackifying resin. The cover strip (7) is of natural or synthetic rubber having an ultimate elongation of at least 500%. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2148243-A (GB)
Title: Improved hose lifting member and method of manufacturing same
Inventor: ANDERSON ROBERT WILLIAM
IPC: B63B27/24
Filed: 1984-09-25
Abstract: A lifting member for location about the nipple end of a marine hose is forged from a single piece of material, preferably steel, to include a central, substantially flat body portion (2) with an aperture (4) formed therethrough for receiving therein the nipple end of the marine hose. A first eye (6) is formed to one end of the body portion (2) in substantially the same plane as said body portion (2), while a further eye (10) is formed to the other end of the body portion (2) in a plane containing the longitudinal axis of the body portion (2) and perpendicular to the common plane of the body portion and the first eye (6), the arrangement being such that the hook of a lifting mechanism can be located through one or other of the bores (8, 12) of the eyes (6, 10) to enable a hose in the aperture (4) of the body portion (2) to be manoeuvred as desired. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2152954-A (GB)
Title: Soldering device with flux exhibiting colour temperature change
Inventor: CYDZIK EDWARD ANTONI
IPC: G01K11/12
Filed: 1985-01-23
Abstract: A solder flux composition undergoes a visible colour change at a critical temperature. Solderable substrates are positioned within the device and heated until a critical temperature has been reached as indicated by a colour change in the flux. The critical temperature depends on the material of the particular heat-recoverably member and the solder used. Flux compositions and their use in soldering are also disclosed.
Patent GB-2153209-A (GB)
Title: Accessory for swimming pool cleaner
Inventor: HOFMANN HELMUT JOSEF
IPC: E04H4/16
Filed: 1985-01-30
Abstract: An accessory for a swimming pool cleaner 1-5 consists of a rim 7 mounted on pipe 4 adjacent hose 6, the arrangement being such that the new contacts the wall of the pool before the cleaner is able to reach a position where forces acting on it prevent it from moving. In a modified form, the rim forms part of a cage around pipe 4. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2170165-A (GB)
Title: Ticket transport mechanism
Inventor: WILLIAMS CHARLES B
IPC: G06K13/073
Filed: 1985-04-12
Abstract: A mechanism for transporting 24 ticketing or other flat, strip-like media comprises at least one pair of opposed elastic belts defining a ticket path. The belts are driven by a suitable drive mechanism to transport tickets along the path, the tickets being gripped between opposed surfaces of the belts. The belts are deflected out of a straight line path so as to form a slight arch between opposite ends of the path, the deflection acting to stretch the belts and bias them against each other along the entire ticket path so that tickets are positively restrained between the belts. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2174617-A (GB)
Title: Catalyst arrangement for the exhaust system of an internal combustion engine
Inventor: BOSTOCK PHILIP GEOFFREY
IPC: F01N13/02
Filed: 1985-05-08
Abstract: In an exhaust system with a trap 18 for particulate emissions from an engine, a catalyst is incorporated in a solid material insert 22 which is fitted upstream of the particulate trap so that the exhaust gases pass over the insert on their way to the trap. In passing the hot exhaust gases cause catalyst to be vaporised from the insert and carried along to the trap where it promotes burning of the particulates. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2162664-A (GB)
Title: Power control circuit
Inventor: COWEN DAVID WILLIAM
IPC: H02M7/5387
Filed: 1985-07-22
Abstract: A bridge network 1 of current switching devices 2, 3, 4, 5 is operated in full wave manner by control signals A, B, C, D respectively produced by two similar, parallel and pulse width modulated power control circuits 12, 13 connected to receive a common input signal, one pair of opposing switch devices (2, 5) being controlled by one circuit 12 and the other pair 3, 4 being controlled by the other circuit 13. The pulse width control inputs 14, 15 of the circuits 12, 13 are connected to voltage sensing means in the bridge supply circuit so that the pulse width of the control signals A, B, C, D is determined in accordance with the bridge supply level. The arrangement is such that the control circuits 12, 13, although not designed to fail-to-safety standards, operate in a fail-safe manner to provide a constant level output independent of the input signal. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2166982-A (GB)
Title: Automatic electrostatic spray coating
Inventor: PLANERT ALBERT
IPC: B05B5/16
Filed: 1985-10-28
Abstract: To an intermediate tank (28) is respectively supplied only the portion of varnish which is required to coat an object unit with an atomiser (40) connected by the intermediate tank. The intermediate tank receives the portion of varnish respectively from a colour changer (2). The connection between the colour changer (2) and intermediate tank (28) is constructed so that between these two parts no electrical connection can occur if electrically conductive varnish is used and this varnish is electrostatically charged during the spraying operation at the atomiser. Thereby, during a colour change, the device parts affected by the colour change can be cleaned with little expenditure and within a short period of time so that the new varnish colour is not contaminated by traces of the varnish colour previously used. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2172056-A (GB)
Title: Means and method for controlling augmentor liner coolant flow pressure in a mixed flow, variable cycle gas turbine engine
Inventor: SIMMONS JOHN ROBERT
IPC: F02C9/18
Filed: 1986-03-03
Abstract: The present invention discloses means and method for modulating the bypass flow in a mixed flow, variable cycle gas turbine engine. The engine includes means to vary the bypass flow and includes an augmentor and liner with coolant supplied by a portion of the bypass flow. The bypass flow pressure is modulated by sensing the pressure of the liner coolant P1 and the pressure in the augmentor P2 and varying the flow pressure as a function of P1, P2, or both by adjusting 44 and 46. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2174542-A (GB)
Title: A method and apparatus for the production of semiconductor devices
Inventor: HAYAKAWA TOSHIRO
IPC: H01L21/324
Filed: 1986-03-26
Abstract: A method for the production of semiconductor devices comprising: subjecting a GaAs substrate with an oxidized film thereon to a degasification treatment, heating the substrate during a radiation treatment by a molecular beam within a pre-treatment chamber to remove the oxidized film from the substrate, and growing a phosphorous compound semiconductor layer on the substrate by molecular beam epitaxy within a growth chamber connected to the pre-treatment chamber.
Patent GB-2173275-A (GB)
Title: Hose or cable support
Inventor: DUNLOP MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: F16L3/12
Filed: 1986-03-26
Abstract: A device for supporting a section of a flexible hose 4 or cable with a predetermined curvature comprises one or more elements of flexible sheet material 1, 2 around the section of the hose 4 and bonded in such a manner as to maintain it with a set curvature. By appropriate bonding (eg welds 9, 10, 11) of the flexible sheet material, either to itself or to one or more separate elements, simple or complex curvatures may be obtained. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2190787-A (GB)
Title: Multiple sample radioactivity detector
Inventor: PULLAN DR BRIAN ROBERT
IPC: G01T1/185
Filed: 1986-05-21
Abstract: Detecting head assembly capable of detecting and/or scanning radioactive emissions from a sample. The assembly includes a multiplicity of drift chambers (21) below which one or a number of individual samples may be supported. A beta particle emitted from the sample ionises gas within chambers (21) and negative ions are directed, by the application of an electric field, towards anode wires (27) which cross with cathodes (28) above drift chambers (21). The proximity of the tops of drift chambers (21) with anode wires (27) serves to prevent radiation received by any one drift chamber (21) from being detected by any part of the electrode structure associated with another drift chamber (21). The assembly is useful in the field of medical diagnostics and biomedical research for providing information relating to radioactive samples.
Patent GB-2191464-A (GB)
Title: Hinged drop plate for load handling equipment
Inventor: HEADFORD ALAN LLOYD
IPC: E02F3/342
Filed: 1986-05-29
Abstract: The invention relates to a container for use with material moving equipment such as a bulldozer and to such a container having a device which will assist in unloading the container's content as it is tipped from an upright to an inverted position. The device comprises a plate (18) which substantially covers the base (17) of the container. One side of the plate is pivoted about pins (19) to the container and as the container moves to its inverted position the plate moves away from the base about the pivot pins to aid in removing the load. A stop (21) limits travel of the plate. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2197940-A (GB)
Title: Flue arrangement
Inventor: EDMUNDSON MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: F23L17/04
Filed: 1986-11-19
Abstract: A balanced flue arrangement, for a gas-fired appliance, e.g. a hot water boiler, is fitted flush with the external face of a wall 11, and is provided, in addition to the customary exhaust gas outlet 12 and combustion air inlet duct 13, with a pressure relief duct 14 between the exhaust gas outlet duct and combustion air inlet duct, and with a baffle 21 shielding the outlet end of the exhaust gas outlet duct. The baffle directs some of the air inflowing to the combustion air inlet duct into an inlet 16 of the pressure relief duct to carry with it exhaust gas spillage from the exhaust gas outlet duct. The gases pass out of the pressure relief duct via small holes around its outer face panel 17a, this being remote from the air inlet duct 13. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2197213-A (GB)
Title: Board game
Inventor: PAULL AUBREY ARTHUR GEORGE
IPC: A63F3/00
Filed: 1986-12-01
Abstract: A board game useful to teach, for example, bird identification and ornitholigical knowledge comprises a board 1 with a peripheral subdivided main path 13 of squares 13a and path loops or detours 16-24. Cards 5 2a-2d comprise two types of cards. Point-score cards 2a, 2b, 2c for "face-up" use are amassed dependent on luck as players progressively land on equivalent marked squares. Question cards 2d for "face-down" use are either not amassed, or only amassed if properly answered (e.g. with an answer to a question relevant to unlabelled bird illustrations in spaces 5) are provide a further points score dependent on skill. Rules may provide for various movement directions or freedoms around path 13 and loops 16-24, exercised in accordance with the throw of numbered dice. Play is terminated either when all "score" cards have been amassed or when the first player, or all players, have reached an end location on the path. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2198392-A (GB)
Title: Heating apparatus
Inventor: CLARKE CHRISTOPHER
IPC: B29C35/08
Filed: 1986-12-09
Abstract: The heating apparatus comprises a plurality of elongate linear heating elements (16, 17, 18) which are substantially parallel to and equally spaced from the surface of a thermoplastic sheet supported across a gap between a pair at sheet locating members. Each of the heating elements is mounted between longitudinally separated rotatable rollers (5) having means for adjustment at the separation between the elements as a result at the rotation at the rollers. This means for adjustment is preferably a series of part helical grooves (13, 14 and 15) around the outer periphery at the relevant roller, each groove being arranged to receive one at the heating elements. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2189448-A (GB)
Title: Balanced risk director
Inventor: HORSLEY WILLIAM LEWIS
IPC: G08G5/00
Filed: 1987-04-01
Abstract: A balanced risk director is used in situations where rapid decisions have to be made between alternative courses of action, on the basis of minimising risk. It is particularly useful in dynamic situations where the risks are changing quickly and are very sensitive to changes in the conditions being experienced. A balanced risk director consists of a computations unit programmed to calculate and compare, in real time or near real time, appropriate risks, both with one another and with generally acceptable standards, with a sampling rate appropriate to the application. The results of the calculations are displayed in a form readily usable to a human operator, and/or in a form suitable for controlling an automatic system, again with an update rate appropriate to the application. An aeroplane take-off monitor is described, in which aeroplane take-off and braking performance are stored in a database, aeroplane weight, runway and ambient conditions are fed in prior to take-off, and transducers measure acceleration, distance gone, ground and air speeds, and brake-pressure. Calculated information displayed to the pilot advises him of the advisability of continuing or abandoning take-off. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2206128-A (GB)
Title: Copper mirrors and method of manufacturing same
Inventor: SERVAIS ALBERT
IPC: G02B1/10
Filed: 1987-06-23
Abstract: A mirror comprises a transparent glass sheet bearing a copper reflective layer and at least one protective layer, for example by treatment with a substituted azole, characterised in that the copper layer is a chemically deposited layer such that after the mirror has been subjected to the CASS Test for 120 hours, the factor of luminous reflection of the mirror is at least 0.9 times what it was before the mirror was subjected to that test. In order to form the copper layer, the glass sheet may be sprayed with coppering solution while the glass is still wet following spraying with a coating reaction product sequestering solution, suitably an ammonium compound having a pH of at least 10, whereafter the glass is sprayed with water.
Patent GB-2206382-A (GB)
Title: Fuel injection pumping apparatus
Inventor: ANDREWS RICHARD JAMES
IPC: F02M41/14
Filed: 1987-06-30
Abstract: A fuel injection pumping apparatus for supplying fuel to an internal combustion engine includes a rotary distrbutor member (11) housed in a housing 9. The distributor member includes a bore (14) in which is mounted a pair of pumping plungers (15) which are movable inwardly by cam lobes formed on a cam ring (17) located in the housing. One of the plungers and the bore defines a spill path through which fuel can escape from the bore when the plunger reaches a predetermined position during its inward movement. The concentricity of the cam ring (17) with the axis of rotation of the distributor member (11) can be assured by adjusting screws threaded into the housing, (9) into engagement with respective pressure pads (46) which support the cam ring (17) in the housing (9). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2198378-A (GB)
Title: Loading a segmented die and ejecting a component formed therein
Inventor: JAMES STEPHEN RICHARD
IPC: B21J13/02
Filed: 1987-12-03
Abstract: A method, and apparatus, for removing a formed component (5) from a die (6) and reloading the die with a fresh billet (4) to form another component, wherein the fresh billet is forced into the die from below causing the die to be raised from a die block and engage a member (42) which separates the die into segments. When the die is thus separated, the component disengages from the segments permitting them to return to the die block with the fresh billet therein. The component is held on top of the die to be removed by a transfer mechanism.