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Patent GB-2465841-A (GB)
Title: Identifying audio output by comparing samples with the contents of a database
Inventor: GOODHEW IAIN
IPC: G06F3/16
Filed: 2008-12-05
Abstract: A computer has a sampler connected to its audio output. The sampler transmits the samples to a database server. The server compares the samples to those in the database in order to identify the audio output. The audio samples may be taken from an audio output of the computer, such as a loudspeaker or headphone socket. They may be taken from the sound card. Alternatively, the samples may be extracted by the BIOS or operating system of the computer. The samples may be sent via the Internet. The samples may be stored on the computer before being transmitted.
Patent GB-2467334-A (GB)
Title: Assembled camshaft for i.c. engines
Inventor: METHLEY IAN
IPC: B21D53/84
Filed: 2009-01-30
Abstract: An assembled camshaft, eg a single camshaft phaser (SCP) camshaft 50, for mounting on an engine cylinder head, comprising a cam lobe supporting shaft 52, one or more cam lobes 56 formed separately from the shaft 52 and fitted, eg shrink-fitted, to the shaft 52 for rotation therewith, and bearing surfaces on the shaft to enable the assembled camshaft to be rotatably supported by the engine cylinder head. One-piece plain bearing components, eg bearing bushes 60, are mounted on the bearing surfaces of the shaft 52 during assembly of the camshaft. The bushes 60 may be clamped by bearing caps (112, figs. 4A,4B). A pin (115, fig.4D) may protrude from a bearing cap 112a into a drilling (64) in a bearing bush 60 to prevent the bush from rotating. Alternatively, each bearing bush (260,260', figs. 5,6A,6B) is designed as a one-piece pillar block to be secured directly to the cylinder head by threaded fasteners. The bearing bushes (260,260') may be combined into a single ladder frame (310, figs. 7A,7B) which may help maintain the correct spacing and orientation of the cam lobes during assembly.
Patent GB-2457377-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for attaching grab bar to wall flange
Inventor: FORREST EARL DAVID
IPC: A47K3/00
Filed: 2009-02-13
Abstract: A grab bar 10 for attachment to a wall mount surface 12 includes a mount assembly 18 having a sleeve 26, a base flange 24, and a set screw 28. The sleeve 26 is attached to a wall facing side of the grab bar. The base flange has a base portion 44 to be associated with the wall mount surface and a wall portion 46 extending outwardly from the base portion. Once the sleeve is attached to the grab bar and the base flange is attached to the wall mount surface, the sleeve is received over the wall portion in an overlapping relationship. Set screw 28 is then used to secure the sleeve to the base flange. The flange can have two wall portions which may have threaded holes to receive the set screw, there can also be an insert 74 in one of the walls.
Patent GB-2469447-A (GB)
Title: Turbofan engine fan assembly with blade containment and cutter to trim fan blade tips
Inventor: EVANS DALE EDWARD
IPC: F01D21/04
Filed: 2009-04-15
Abstract: High bypass ratio turbofan propulsion engines have a containment system 30 encircling the fan assembly 2 to capture any part of a released fan blade 4 following foreign object damage and, in order to reduce the vibrations of the resulting unbalanced fan assembly 2, the support structure 14, 20 for the bearing 16 of the rotating assembly is constructed with frangible parts to introduce a snubber gap 26 to permit the rotating, unbalanced fan assembly 2 and bearing 16 to orbit. However, in the case of very wide chord fan assemblies, the largest acceptable snubber gap 26 is insufficient to reduce the induced vibrations. The invention incorporates into the containment system 30, and behind a fan track liner 36 encircling the fan blades 2, at least one severance member 44 having a cutting edge 46 that will impact the tips 40 of the blades 4 of an orbiting fan assembly 2 to trim the mass distribution of the fan blades 4 in order to reduce the vibrations caused by the out of balance forces. The severance members 44 may be integral with annular ribs 48, 50 around the containment casing 30 or may be separate members of harder material.
Patent GB-2460168-A (GB)
Title: Downloading digital media files
Inventor: SANT PHILIP ANTHONY
IPC: G06Q30/00
Filed: 2009-05-20
Abstract: The camera on a mobile handset, or other client device, is used to scan the UPC (Universal Product Code) or EAN (European Article Number) barcode, or other visual identifiers on CD (Compact Disc) or DVD (Digital Versatile Disc).This in turn relates back to the stored UPC or EAN in a catalogue of digital media, thereby allowing the album to be sent as part of the user's music subscription to the mobile handset, played on the mobile handset, and saved on the mobile handset. Note that the barcode is printed onto the physical CD or DVD for the primary use of stock control/point of sale purposes; it is not provided to enable a digital version of the media tiles encoded on the CD/DVD to be provided. In this implementation of the invention, a new use is found for the existing stock control/point of sale barcodes.
Patent GB-2470604-A (GB)
Title: Building unit and method of constructing two walls simultaneously
Inventor: DOWNTOWN GEOFFREY
IPC: E04B2/30
Filed: 2009-05-30
Abstract: The building unit 10 for constructing two walls simultaneously, i.e. a cavity wall, comprises a first and second block 12, 13 coupled together via a coupling member 14, such as a metal rod, extending between the first and second blocks. Each of the blocks may form a face of each of the walls. The second block may provide thermal or acoustic insulation. The blocks may be made from curable material and be arranged to cure within a pair of moulds with the metal rod extending within the moulds. Tension may be applied to the metal rod as the blocks are curing, and after the blocks have cured the tension is released creating a compressive stress within the blocks. Also claimed is a method for building two walls by laying the units on top of each other. The method may also comprise injecting insulating foam into the space between the two walls.
Patent GB-2471120-A (GB)
Title: Descaler for variable thickness metal
Inventor: CLARK MICHAEL
IPC: B21B45/08
Filed: 2009-06-18
Abstract: Apparatus for descaling metal in plate mills, particularly metal ingots of varying thickness. Two headers bearing spray nozzles are arranged above the metal with a mutual offset such that the sprays from the first header are centered on different regions of the metal than are the sprays on the second header. The regions sprayed by the first header overlap with those sprayed by the second header, the degree of overlap depending on the metal thickness and hence stand off distance of the nozzles.
Patent GB-2461402-A (GB)
Title: Portable briefcase barbecue
Inventor: GAZE MARTIN ROBERT
IPC: A47J37/07
Filed: 2009-07-03
Abstract: A portable barbecue comprising a case formed from two halves 3 and 4 hingedly joined to allow the two halves 3 and 4 to open and close in a clam-shell manner. When the case is open and standing with its hinge axis 5 extending generally vertically and with the two halves 3 and 4 at an angle to each other, a grill 7 for supporting food to be cooked is supported between inside surfaces of the two halves at a first level, and a heating element 9, which may be a solid fuel heating element, a gas burner or an electric element is supported between inside surfaces of the two halves 3 and 4 at a second level below the first. The inside surfaces may be a plurality of ledges 12, the case may be sized to hold the grill 7 and heating element 9 in it when closed, there may be a carrying strap and a member to hold the two halves apart at a set angle.
Patent GB-2458426-A (GB)
Title: Password protection system and method
Inventor: SHEYMOV VICTOR I
IPC: G06F21/00
Filed: 2009-07-28
Abstract: A method, system, and device for password protection for a computer or other electronic device are provided, including providing one or more false passwords that outwardly cause the computer or other electronic device to behave as if a correct password was entered and that inwardly cause the computer or other electronic device to behave differently than as if the correct password was entered; and taking a predetermined action when one of the false passwords is entered.
Patent GB-2468741-A (GB)
Title: Separation device with exhaust silencer
Inventor: BILLIET COLIN THOMAS
IPC: B01D1/30
Filed: 2009-10-26
Abstract: An exhaust silencer for a fluid separation device comprises a first body portion 501 defining a first volume 502 having at least one first 504 and at least one second aperture 508 therein. At least one second body portion defines a second volume having an input 510 to receive a moving fluid, the second volume in fluid communication with the first volume via the second aperture. The fluid moves in a first direction on passing from the second volume to the first volume through the second aperture, slows down and moves in a second direction different from the first direction as it passes through the first volume into the atmosphere via the first aperture. Also disclosed are further inventions directed to a fluid separation device (400, Fig 4), a valve characterised by three apertures and aperture blocking means (432, Fig 6), a fluid disposal device characterised by a filter, heat generating means and water transfer means, and a separation device characterised by fluid transfer means and liquid catching means.
Patent GB-638776-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in wrapping machinery
IPC: B65B11/28
Filed: 1948-04-09
Abstract: 638,776. Wrapping machinery. ROSE, A. G., and ROSE BROS. (GAINSBOROUGH), Ltd. April 9, 1948, No. 10033. [Class 94(i)] A wrapping machine of the kind employing a pocket member into which articles, generally with a wrapper, are fed, and which transports the articles through various stages of wrapping has any pocket of the pocket member formed with a movable side that is connected to the pocket member by means of an insert of rubber or like resilient material arranged resiliently to urge the movable side in a direction towards the opposing side. In a machine for wrapping sweets, a rotary pocket wheel 11 is formed with a series of pockets each constituted by a fixed part 12 integral with the wheel and a movable side 13 integral with a two-armed lever 14, 15 pivoted on the wheel, the arm 15 carrying a cam roller 17 bearing on a stationary cam 18 to open and close the pocket during rotation of the pocket wheel. The movable side 13 is yieldably urged into engagement with the fixed part 12 by means of a bush 19 of rubber or like resilient material whose axis is coincident with the pivotal axis of the movable side and which is bonded on to a metal insert 20 and also into a sleeve 21, the sleeve 21 being secured in a boss 22 of the lever 14, 15 while the insert 20 is bolted to the pocket wheel.
Patent GB-605869-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in weft tension device for automatic bobbin-changing loom shuttle
IPC: D03J5/24
Filed: 1945-04-20
Abstract: 605,869. Loom shuttles. TYLER, P. F. April 20, 1945, Nos. 10036/45 and 5827/46. [Class 142(iii)] To ensure penetration of the weft between tensioning members 10, 11 in a self-threading shuttle, an adjustable gap is positively maintained between their tops (against spring loading 16) by a hooked wire 20, Fig. 2, or by a stop screw 28, Fig. 4, which may have an eccentric head or carry an eccentric washer or be adjustable along a slot; or the member 10 may be slotted or bent to embrace a screw or pin. Alternatively, the member 10 may be suspended on a pin 58, Fig. 7, by means of an off-centre hole, the other end having a central hole so that the gap can be varied by turning round or inverting the member. Both members may be movable, Fig. 10, and a pin 30 may locate their lower ends. One side of the members may be serrated as described in Specification 605,921 so that the weft can pass between two plain, one plain and one serrated, or two serrated faces.
Patent GB-394635-A (GB)
Title: A new or improved method of preventing the blurring or dulling of sheet glass
IPC: C09K3/18
Filed: 1933-04-04
Abstract: 394,635. Glass manufacture. MœHLIG-UNION GLASINDUSTRIE-AKT.- GES., Sch÷nau, Teplitz, Czecho-Slovakia. April 4, 1933, No. 10088. Convention date, April 4, 1932. [Class 56.] A method of preventing the dulling or corrosion of sheets or plates of glass, due (to the action of condensed moisture, consists in treating the surfaces of the sheets with a medium which neutralizes the alkalies extracted from the glass by the moisture. Copper sulphate, iron sulphate, citric acid, or boric acid may be used, and the material may be incorporated with a carrier adapted to be spread thinly on the surface, such as asbestos, sawdust, or other absorbent granular material. Paper which has been saturated with a solution made by dissolving 1 gramme of iron sulphate in 1 litre of water may be used for separating glass sheets from one another when packed or stacked.
Patent GB-327289-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to nut-locks
IPC: F16B39/286
Filed: 1929-04-02
Abstract: 327,289. Giles, W'. T. April 2, 1929. Locking nuts.-A nut which automatically locks itself upon the bolt &c. has a threaded extension of the body of the nut 1. forming a collar 2, divided at 4, and separated from the body of the nut by a gap 8. The collar is slightly contracted by pressure, to close the slots 4 and give it an elastic inward bias when screwed on to the bolt. The invention is shown applied to a wing nut, but is applicable to nuts of ordinary form.
Patent GB-580273-A (GB)
Title: Improved driving mechanism for use with sound films and the like
IPC: G03B31/02
Filed: 1944-05-26
Abstract: 580,273. Sound-film apparatus. BRITISH THOMSON-HOUSTON CO., Ltd., and MORFEY, D. S. May 26, 1944, No. 10210. [Class 97 (i)] Sound film is driven by sprocket teeth 7 individually r,esiliently mounted by fingers 6 on a hub 5 coaxial with a drum 3 of large inertia which frictionally engages the film and is driven thereby to ensure uniform motion. The drum 3 may be attached to a fly-wheel and the hub is mounted on a shaft 1 driven through suitable gearing, the drum being freely rotatable about the axis of the shaft. A damping plate engages the teeth to prevent vibration. Tensioning means R, D<1> are provided or alternatively the fly-wheel may be damped.
Patent GB-182094-A (GB)
Title: Improved junction between electric telephonic and like circuits
IPC: H04B1/58
Filed: 1922-04-10
Abstract: 182,094. Soc. d'Etudes pour Liaisons TÚlÚphoniques et TÚlÚgraphiques Ó Longue Distance. June 20, 1921, [Convention date]. Repeating and amplifying systems.-Comprises a transformer connection for three circuits, such as telephone lines, so arranged that the third circuit is effectively coupled to both the other circuits whilst the two latter are mutually independent. As shown in the Figure, two lines A, B of a four-wire trunk line are coupled to a subscriber's line C. The trunk line A includes a transformer coil a wound on the same core as two coils a1, a2. The trunk line B includes a coil a' wound on the same core as two coils a<1>1, a<2>1. The coils a1, a1<SP>1> are connected in series in the subscriber's line C, and the coils a2, a2<SP>1> in series with an artificial line D. The Specification gives formulµ indicating the relationship between the number of turns of the various coils and the impedances of the lines in order that (1) the two trunk lines may be mutually independent and (2) no current passes in the artificial line when the subscriber is speaking. As a special case, when the impedance of the artificial line D is the same as that of the subscriber's line C, then the coils a1, a2, a1<SP>1>, a2<SP>1> should have equal numbers of turns, but coil a1<SP>1> should be reversely wound. If, in addition, the two trunks A, B have the same impedance, then the coils a, a<1> should have the same number of turns.
Patent GB-386289-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to television, telecinema and like processes of electrical transmission of images
IPC: H04N3/34
Filed: 1931-04-07
Abstract: 386,289. Television. COMPAGNIE POUR LA FABRICATION DES COMPTEURS ET MATERIEL D'USINES A GAZ, 12, Place des Etats-Unis, Montrouge, Seine, France. April 7, 1931, No. 10239. Convention date, April 8, 1930. Void [Published under Sect. 91 of the Acts]. [Class 40 (iii).] The dimension b of the exploring beam in the direction of exploration f is smaller than the dimension a at right-angles. At the transmitter the width of the elementary exploration bands 1 .. 4 is less than the quotient of the width of the object by the number of bands, and at the receiver, using an exploring disc with circular holes, the width of the elementary exploration bands is slightly greater than the quotient of the width of the image by the number of holes.
Patent GB-1003429-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to presses
IPC: B01D25/19
Filed: 1963-03-15
Abstract: In a clamping apparatus for filter presses employing planetary gearing, the gear assembly is arranged within the hub of a handwheel to form a structural unit mounted at the end of a threaded spindle.
Patent GB-690524-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in suspended ceilings
IPC: E04B9/18
Filed: 1951-05-02
Abstract: 690,524. Ceilings. DORTMUNDER UNION BRUCKENBAU AKT.-GES. May 2, 1951 [Aug. 3, 1950], No. 10312/51. Class 20(iv) A false ceiling suspended from an upper supporting ceiling comprises intersecting rods 1 on which ceiling boards 9 are laid, the rods being broken at each intersection and inter-connected by lower and upper plates 2, 3, which are clamped together by the nut 6 of a screw bolt 4 carried by a suspension rod 5. The height of the ceiling is adjustable by means of a nut 7. The lower plate 2 has upstanding plates 8, 8' as guides or stops for the supporting rods. The panels 9 may be of asbestos cement, wood wool plates or glass.
Patent GB-558399-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to push-chairs and the like
IPC: B62B7/02
Filed: 1942-07-24
Abstract: 558,399. Collapsable push-chairs. SUTHERWOOD, O. J., and CURTIS, F. G. July 24, 1942, No. 10390. [Class 108 (i)] A frame 4 of a collapsable push-chair carrying flexible material for a seat is pivoted at the front to stays 13 pivoted on the wheel axles, the back part 6 of frame 4 sliding along a central spine or back structure 2 so that the frame 4 and stays 13 can be collapsed to lie in one plane with the spine 2. A pivoted back rest 15, which may carry wheels, is provided.
Patent GB-436229-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to cooking or heating utensils made of stainless steel
IPC: A47J36/02
Filed: 1934-04-07
Abstract: The undersurface of an austenitic stainless steel heating or cooking vessel is coated with a metal of high thermal conductivity, such as copper or aluminium, applied by spraying. Specifications 337,313, [Class 66], and 415,207 (as open to inspection under Sect. 91) are referred to.
Patent GB-390951-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in frames for cycles and motorcycles
IPC: B62K11/04
Filed: 1932-04-13
Abstract: 390,951. Cycle frames. FRANCIS & BARNETT, Ltd., Lower Ford Street, and FRANCIS, G. I., Inglesby, Gibbet Hill Road, both in Coventry. April 13, 1932, No. 10537. [Class 136 (iii).] In a frame for motor and other cycles of the type comprising a steering-head and front down member formed as a single unit in which the former is supported throughout its entire length by the latter, such unit is made either in two parts divided longitudinally in the plane of the steering axis and permanently connected together, or in solid form, as a casting, stamping, or forging ; the upper rail and upper rear stays, and also the lower rail and lower rear stays may also be made as single units. The head 2 and front down member 3 are made as a single unit, either from one or more sheetmetal blanks or as a solid casting, stamping, or forging. For example, two sheet-metal pressings may be arranged side by side and welded together along their meeting edges, a tubular liner being inserted in the head part and riveted or welded in place. The liner may be rolled from sheet metal, the edges being flanged outwards for welding between the front edges of the pressings. Alternatively, the head and front down member may be made from a single sheet-metal blank folded into a box-like form about a longitudinal centre line, the abutting edges being welded together. When a solid casting, stamping, or forging is employed, the front down member may be of girder section, and the head is made hollow by the use of a core, or is first made solid and then bored. The upper rail 7 and upper back stays 8 are formed as an integral structure, as are also the lower rail 9 and lower rear stays 10, these structures being bolted to the member 3 and braced by a pair of inclined members 12.
Patent GB-581988-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to indicating electrical fuse blocks
IPC: H01H85/30
Filed: 1943-06-30
Abstract: 581,988. Fusible cut-outs. ROW, W. June 30, 1943, No. 10579. Convention date, July 6, 1942. [Class 38 (i)] A fuse carrier 13 that is inserted in its base 9 with a partial rotary movement, has multiple bladed contacts 12 that engage laterally with the fixed contacts 10 and carries an indicator plunger 21 through which the fuse 28 passes and which has an extension 22 that enters a recess 14 in the base to form a pivot about which the partial rotation of the carrier takes place. The extension 22 also forms an abutment for the spring 16 housed in the recess 14 by which the plunger 21 is moved when the fuse blows to cause an indicator 25 to protrude. The plunger is held in position prior to insertion of the carrier in the base by catches that are released on insertion. In one form, pivoted catches 29, Fig. 2, are turned manually to engage lateral slots 31 in the plunger 21 while the fuse wire is threaded through it. Pins fixed on the base engage the catches on insertion, and when the carrier is turned move them into register with longitudinal slots in the plunger. In a modification spring catches operate similarly being held in the releasing portion by pins on the base.
Patent GB-1177341-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to a Plenum Chamber Air Cushion Vehicle
Inventor: MADDOCK OWEN RICHARD
IPC: B60V1/16
Filed: 1966-03-11
Abstract: 1,177,341. Air cushion vehicles. O. R. MADDOCK, and F. G. CROSS. 7 March, 1967 [11 March, 1966]. No. 10696/66. Heading B7K. A plenum chamber air cushion vehicle has a single wall flexible skirt 6 which is allowed to flex outwardly under cushion pressure and is braced by booms 7 attached at respective ends to the body 4 and the lower edge of the skirt. Ties 8 are provided to resist outward movement of the skirts and at the sides of the vehicle the booms, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2 are rearwardly inclined to facilitate passage over obstacles. The skirts at the front and rear of the vehicle are similarly inclined as shown. Hydraulic cylinders, such as 12 may be used instead of ties 8 to restrain the skirt or booms and in another embodiment such ties may be dispensed with and the booms attached to the body by hinges inclined in plan and elevation.
Patent GB-1167661-A (GB)
Title: A Baby Feeding Accessory
Inventor: LUMGAIR CATHERINE PAULINE
IPC: A41B13/00
Filed: 1968-03-05
Abstract: 1,167,661. Child's mitten. C. P. LUMGAIR. 5 March, 1968 [7 March, 1967], No. 10711/68. Heading A3V. A baby's feeding accessory comprises a flexible mitten 1 which encircles the child's hand having a pocket 2 or hole for retaining rigid articles of food projecting therefrom In the preferred embodiment the pocket is open at the end proximate to thumbhole 5. The depth of the pocket may be altered by closing press-stud 6. An alternative form has a hole in the mitten to take the food which is then held by the mitten against the child's palm. The accessory is preferably made of foamed plastics material. The thumbhole may be omitted.