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Patent GB-2121965-A (GB)
Title: Printing press blanket gauge
Inventor: ROCKS JOSEPH CHARLES
IPC: G01B7/06
Filed: 1982-06-01
Abstract: The gauge comprises a casing containing a dial gauge, indicating lighting means 18, and two pointed probe members capable of penetrating a printing blanket 25 and making electrical contact with a metal surface 26 below, there being arranged between the pointed probe members a probe 22 connected to the dial test indicator and within the casing a source of electricity connected to the probe members through the indicator 18. When both the pointed probe members and the probing means are pressed against the surface of a printing blanket the pointed probe members pass through the blanket and are electrically connected through the metal surface 26 thus causing the lamp to illuminate and the dial gauge to indicate the blanket thickness. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2097276-A (GB)
Title: Device for mixing a first fluid with a second vehicle fluid
IPC: B01D19/00
Filed: 1981-11-03
Abstract: Device for mixing a first fluid with a second vehicle fluid, comprising a unit for the removal of the first fluid from a container where the said fluid is stored, a unit for the dilution of the removed fluid into the vehicle fluid, and a unit for distributing the fluid mixture for the purpose of its later utilization, characterized in that the removal, the dilution and the distribution are effected by a single control device actuated by a pressure differential established in the circulation circuit of the vehicle fluid.
Patent GB-2102903-A (GB)
Title: Pipe coupling with tapered gripping collar
Inventor: LAWRENCE ANTHONY JOHN
IPC: F16L19/12
Filed: 1982-07-16
Abstract: A pipe coupling comprises a male part 10, a sealing ring 19 in the male part to provide a seal between it and the pipe 12, a female part 16, a pipe- gripping collar 28 within the female part having an external frusto-conical surface so arranged that, upon axial movement of the part 16 towards the male part, the collar 28 is contracted radially to grip the pipe 12, and a thrust washer 30 between the parts 10, 16. There is between the female part 16 and the thrust washer 30a spacer 34 which transmits axial pressure from the female part 16 to the thrust washer 30 as the coupling is tightened, the spacer 34 having a zone of weakness 35 at which fracture occurs at a predetermined axial pressure, the fracture permitting relative axial movement between the female part and the thrust washer as the coupling is further tightened, whereby an axial reaction is effected between the thrust washer 30 and the pipe-gripping collar 28 resulting in radial contraction of the collar 28 onto the pipe. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2105654-A (GB)
Title: Nonwoven fabric from a combination of thermoplastic netting and oriented film
Inventor: CRAIG ALAN DANIEL
IPC: B32B37/20
Filed: 1982-09-08
Abstract: A family of reinforced net structures which include oriented polypropylene netting with oriented propylene/1-butene copolymer film as an adhesive, and a process for making these nonwoven fabrics.
Patent GB-2109332-A (GB)
Title: Containers for tablets
Inventor: SKYLVIK ARNOLD
IPC: B65D51/20
Filed: 1982-09-22
Abstract: A plastics container for tablets has a metal foil (2) attached to a dispensing opening (5) and a removably- connected cover (3) which covers the foil and the opening, the container being filled with tablets through a bottom opening of the container opposite to said dispensing opening. The bottom opening is thereafter permanently sealed by a plastic plate (4), which has a flange (17) carrying a rib or groove (18) which engages a groove or rib (8) in the container side wall. The plate may be adhered or welded to improve the sealing engagement. The cover (3) includes a frangible projection (16) which is received in a recess (7) in the container side wall whereby tampering is indicated. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2114118-A (GB)
Title: Method for removing aldehyde impurities in acrylonitrile and acrylamide
Inventor: SCHMITT JOSEPH MICHAEL
IPC: B01J20/26
Filed: 1982-10-08
Abstract: Aldehyde impurities, such as acrolein, in acrylonitrile and acrylamide formed therefrom are removed by contacting with a gel type weak base ion exchanger having primary and/or secondary amine functionality. Low quality acrylamide catalytic monomer can be upgraded to produce polymers of satisfactory commercial molecular weight for use as flocculants in water treating applications, as measured by standard viscosity, in contrast to such untreated monomers which result in polymers of limited usefulness. The preferred ion exchange is a weakly basic gel type polystyrene-polyamine type anion exchange resin having a styrene- divinylbenzene matrix and primary and/or secondary functional groups.
Patent GB-2108670-A (GB)
Title: Pressure indicators
Inventor: ROBINSON GEOFFREY
IPC: G01L7/16
Filed: 1982-10-22
Abstract: A pressure indicator particularly for a pressure cooker comprises at least one piston (10, 14) capable of restricted movement within a housing (6). One or more dead weight resistances (19, 21) limit the movement of the piston(s) under pressure such that the indicator can indicate a number of distinct changes of the position of the piston(s) relative to the housing at several predetermined pressures.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2132510-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for separating foreign matter from a gas with a heat exchanger
Inventor: DIACHUK WOLODYMYR
IPC: B04C9/00
Filed: 1982-12-18
Abstract: A gas cleaning and heat transfer apparatus is used with a hood assembly associated with cooking equipment to separate foreign matter from gas moving through the hood assembly and transferring heat from the gas to a fluid. The apparatus has a plurality of gas cleaning units that concurrently operate to separate foreign matter from the gas and reduces the temperature of the gas. Each cleaning unit has a heat conducting wall surrounding a tubular passage for carrying gas and foreign matter. A plurality of helical elements located in the passage are positioned in angular relationship relative to each other so that the gas moving through the passage is divided into separate helical gas streams. A jacket having a fluid accommodating chamber surrounds the cylindrical wall. Heat from the gas in the passage is transferred through the wall to the fluid. The foreign matter is separated from the gas as it moves in the spiral path through the passage by the combined mechanisms of centrifugal force, adhesion, condensation, and impaction. The surrounding fluid cools the gas adjacent the inside of the wall causing condensation of vapors carried by the gas on the wall to facilitate the collection of foreign matter on the wall. The collected foreign matter flowing along the wall is carried by the moving gas to an annular collecting member located adjacent the exit end of the wall. Cleaned gas flows through the annular collecting member to the environment outside the apparatus.
Patent GB-2121193-A (GB)
Title: Weighing apparatus
Inventor: WILKES STEVEN F
IPC: G01G19/42
Filed: 1983-01-18
Abstract: Dual-pan weighing apparatus has a loadcell 3. Weighing pans 9 and 10 are provided and the loadcell 3 is common to both pans; loadcell 3 is loaded directly by pan 9 and indirectly by pan 10 via guidance system 2 and lever 5. The lever 5 is connected to the loadcell 3 and the guidance system 2 and base part 4 by flexure plates 6. The aforementioned parts fit neatly into a standard casing with a digital electronics display panel 11. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2138575-A (GB)
Title: Testing PCM Transmission Systems
Inventor: DYKE PETER JOHN
IPC: H04L1/24
Filed: 1983-02-25
Abstract: The operating margins of existing PCM transmission systems (e.g. 2 Mbit) operating on twisted pair cables, and an indication of the number of additional systems which can be added, is found using TRIOS signals (Figs. 4a, 4b) by detecting erroneous pulses after passage through the system, and increasing the TRIOS density until correlation ceases to a defined degree (Fig. 4c) to give an indication of the operating margins. Fig. 5 shows a device for comparing the transmitted signal with a local signal for detecting errors. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2132519-A (GB)
Title: Magnetic sheath for tool undergoing sharpening
Inventor: HARRIS KEITH
IPC: B24B3/00
Filed: 1983-03-25
Abstract: The sheath is used in a tool sharpening and storing stand and comprises a multi-walled endless sheath. One wall has horizontally elongated openings housing magnetic roller assemblies. Each roller assembly comprises a cylindrical magnet (77) provided with an axle housing aperture and two metallic non magnetic discs (76) with central axle apertures one of which is attached to each cylinder end. The roller assembly as a whole is rotatable on a horizontal axle. Chisels or plane irons are gravity fed in the sheath to contact a rotary grinding wheel. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2123673-A (GB)
Title: Preventing fungal decay of food products particularly harvested fruits
Inventor: VAN GESTEL JOZEF FRANS ELISABE
IPC: B65D81/28
Filed: 1983-05-19
Abstract: A method of protecting food products for animal or human consumption from fungal decay comprises packing the food products in a film of an appropriate thermoplastic polymeric material wherein an effective amount of an appropriate fungicide is incorporated and heating at least part of the packing film during or shortly after packing.
Patent GB-2124613-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of drawn sheet glass
Inventor: GEPPAARD ADRIANUS
IPC: C03B15/06
Filed: 1983-07-26
Abstract: Molten glass 1 flows continuously from a glass melting furnace 2 to a drawing tank 7 whence the glass is drawn as a continuous ribbon 10 from a slot 11 in a refractory device 12 such as a debiteuse partially immersed in the molten glass. The centre of the slot 11 is spaced from each of upstream 6 and downstream 9 end walls of the drawing tank 7 by at least 550 mm. The debiteuse 12 is preferably spaced from those walls by at least 350 mm. This promotes and facilitates production of a high yield of glass of a high standard of thickness uniformity and of good planeity. These advantages are enhanced when the ribbon is passed over a bending roll 13 in a drawing chamber 8 above the drawing tank 7 and thence to a horizontal annealing lehr 14. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2134842-A (GB)
Title: Manufacturing optical cable with an optical fibre disposed loosely within a helical protective package
Inventor: FIELDER NORMAN CHARLES
IPC: B29C48/06
Filed: 1983-11-23
Abstract: Hot thermoplastic package material is extruded through a cooling zone such as a water bath (3) from a die (5), with one or more interior channels (12) into which the optical fibres (10) are continuously fed into, via small-bore tubes (8a) which extend through the die and developing package up to a location in the water bath at which the package is cooled sufficiently to avoid adhesion to the fibres, and the package is continuously twisted by a torsional gripping means at a point downstream of the water bath to permanently deform the thermoplastic section of the package and form said channels into said helical configuration. The package may be twisted in a torsionally oscillating sense (in which case flexible small- bore tubes may be used) to form the channels into a cylindrical sinusoidal configuration. Contact of the fibres with the innermost channel sides is avoided, either by feeding the fibres into the channel at a faster rate, or drawing into the channel at a higher rate by means of a further torsional gripping twisting means, acting with greater amplitude downstream of means which induces the helical deformation. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2132395-A (GB)
Title: A monitor suitable for use with a seed planter
Inventor: ARNOLD HERBERT
IPC: A01C7/10
Filed: 1983-12-01
Abstract: This invention concerns a monitor suitable for use with a seed planter. A conventional seed plate having a plurality of apertures is provided for the planter to feed seeds to a discharge means. A first sensor 6, 8 adapted to establish the desired seed population, senses the slots 204a in the seed plate. A second sensor is associated with the discharge means to establish the actual seed population discharged by the planter. An alarm may be activated when the desired and actual seed populations do not substantially correspond. In this manner, the operator will be alerted when seeds are not ideally discharged by the planter. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2152351-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to toffee making
Inventor: BURGESS KENNETH J
IPC: A23G3/42
Filed: 1984-01-11
Abstract: A method for the production of toffee in which at least a part of the carbohydrate is supplied in the form of a hydrolysed whey syrup and at least a further part is supplied in the form of a malto-dextrin. By including malto-dextrin toffee may be made using hydrolysed whey syrup (HWS) but without the taste and texture disadvantages normally associated with the use of HWS.
Patent GB-2134610-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in hydraulic anti- skid braking systems for vehicles
Inventor: BREARLEY MALCOLM
IPC: B60T8/82
Filed: 1984-01-13
Abstract: An 'X' split hydraulic anti-skid braking system for a four-wheel vehicle, incorporates four skid sensors (25, 26, 27, 28) each for providing skid signals dependent upon the behaviour of a respective wheel (1, 2, 3, 4), a modulator (12, 16) provided in each circuit to modulate the supply of fluid to the brakes (5, 8; 6, 7) of the respective circuit, a control module (19) for operating at least one of the modulators (12, 16) in accordance with the magnitude and nature of the skid signal or signals, and apportioning valves (20, 21) diaposed in the lines between the modulators (12, 16) and the brakes (8, 7) on the rear wheels. The control module (19) is constructed and arranged to ignore a skid signal from a sensor (27, 28) on a rear wheel until a skid signal is also received from the sensor (28, 27) on the other rear wheel, whereafter the control module (19) is operative to operate one of the two modulators (12, 16). Preferably, the threshold of the control module is reduced in response to a signal from a first rear wheel. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2140460-A (GB)
Title: Insulated metal substrates
Inventor: KHAN MOHAMMED NAZIM
IPC: C23C28/00
Filed: 1984-03-12
Abstract: An insulated copper substrate for use in the manufacture of electronic circuits and able to withstand high temperatures, e.g. 850 DEG C comprises a substrate of copper, a thin keying layer on a surface of the substrate, and a layer of SiO2 and/or Al2O3 on the thin keying layer. The thin keying layer is a metal or alloy having a coefficient of thermal expansion between that of copper and that of the ceramic material, e.g. steel or molybdenum.
Patent GB-2138346-A (GB)
Title: Hand tools and elements for use in the manufacture thereof
Inventor: HOLLIES KENNETH GEORGE
IPC: B25G3/28
Filed: 1984-03-12
Abstract: A wedge element (10) for use in securing a working head of a hand tool to a shaft which extends through an aperture in the head comprises a cruciform member made of an alloy which is substantially non-ductile or non-malleable so that it is substantially rigid. The cruciform member includes a first pair of arms (11) affording converging primary wedge faces (12) and a second pair of arms (15) which afford a pair of similarly converging auxiliary wedge faces (16). The wedge faces are of barbed configuration, each affording a plurality of spaced parallel shoulders (12a, 16a) and the lateral edge faces (17) of the secondary arms (15) are similarly of barbed configuration with a single shoulder (17a). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2141950-A (GB)
Title: Arrangement for web coating
Inventor: EKLUND DAN
IPC: B05C3/18
Filed: 1984-05-11
Abstract: Apparatus for a one- or two- sided coating of a vertically travelling web (1) comprising a coating applicator, in which said web is in contact with a coating substance held at atmospheric pressure, and a flexible blade (2) cooperating with a back-up member (19) for levelling a coating substance layer on the web. The applicator comprises a flow regulator (26) which forms between it and the web (1) a clearance (18). This clearance is either of uniform height or is inclined towards the web in the travel direction of the web. This height is smaller than the thickness of a natural layer of coating substance remaining on web without cooperation with the flow regulator. The applicator is further provided with a slot (5) that forms a web entrance at the bottom of the applicator. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2160299-A (GB)
Title: Air gun
Inventor: TURLEY ROGER WILLIAM
IPC: F41B11/00
Filed: 1984-06-16
Abstract: A gun for firing a projectile such as a dart under air pressure, comprises a breech 12 for the projectile, a barrel 10, a chamber 20 for compressed air, a reservoir 24, a trigger 30 for charging the chamber with pressurised air from the reservoir, a trigger 42 for firing the projectile, and a telescopic sight 18 incorporating a focussing element controllable by the pressure in the chamber 20. The pressure in the chamber 20 is lowerable to adjust the focusing element prior to firing by means of a bleed button 40. The correct firing pressure is achieved when the target is in focus, this being just sufficient for the dart to arrive at target with sufficient energy to penetrate an animal's hide without killing. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2144729-A (GB)
Title: Microbubble injector
Inventor: LECOFFRE YVES
IPC: B03D1/14
Filed: 1984-08-09
Abstract: In a microbubble injector usable to separate materials of different density by flotation, a deflector wall deflects radially a flow of water exiting under pressure from an injector hole and containing dissolved air at the saturation concentration. This procures cavitation which is localized at the edges of the hole and which generates the required microbubbles of air downflow thereof.
Patent GB-2149881-A (GB)
Title: Pipe supports
Inventor: SALTER ANTHONY JOHN
IPC: F16L3/205
Filed: 1984-10-29
Abstract: In the body (1) of a pipe support a piston (3) supported on a compression spring (2) is movable relative to the body (1). A turnbuckle (5) suspended from the piston (3) passes down out of the body (1) and, in use, is connected to a pipe to be supported. The body (1) and the piston (3) have adjacent each other oppositely inclined slots (15 and 19 respectively). The piston (3) may be clamped to the body (1) by a lock nut and a lock washer (28) which are interconnected through registering portions of the slots (15 and 19) by a bolt (26). The bolt (26) can be slackened off to allow the nut and washer (28) to slide in the slots (15 and 19) so that the piston (3) can move freely in the body (1). The oppositely inclined slots (15 and 19) allow the piston (3) to be clamped to the body (1) at any position within its range of movement. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2157007-A (GB)
Title: Testing an ignition circuit of an internal combustion engine
Inventor: STEFANAZZI ANTHONY CHARLES
IPC: F02P17/02
Filed: 1985-03-29
Abstract: A tester for testing an ignition circuit of an internal combustion engine comprises a pair of points simulating contacts 12 in a test circuit and control means including a relay coil 13 and relay contacts 14 in series with the coil 13 in a control circuit for controlling the operation of the contacts 12. The control circuit includes a time delay capacitor 15 which may be connected in parallel across the relay coil 13 to provide a delay-on configuration or in series with the coil 13 to provide a delay-off configuration. An ignition circuit capacitor simulating means is provided by a capacitor 20 connected in parallel across the contacts 12. A first push-button switch 21 isolates the simulating capacitor 20 from the contacts 12. A second push-button switch 30 isolates the control circuit from a circuit continuity and resistivity indicating light emitting diode 25. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2176165-A (GB)
Title: Bag opening device for packaging
Inventor: O'NEILL RONAN RICHARD
IPC: B65B43/26
Filed: 1985-06-14
Abstract: Bag opening apparatus uses a pin 8a to penetrate both the upper and lower panels 16 and 17 respectively, of packaging bags, and then upon retraction of the pin from an anvil hole 10, the upper panel 16 is entrained by the pin while the lower panel is held down, for example by means of adhesive carrier tapes on which the bags are mounted. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2168742-A (GB)
Title: Automobile window structures
Inventor: MIYATA TOSHIMI
IPC: B60J1/18
Filed: 1985-11-18
Abstract: An automobile window pane (11) is mounted with adhesive material (13), to a window frame portion (2) of a vehicle body (1), and a flange portion (9) of an inner panel (6) is folded to form a dam portion (10) that prevents outflow of the adhesive material (13). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2174140-A (GB)
Title: A device for locking the door of a washing-machine more particularly a clothes washing-machine
Inventor: BIANCO GIOVANNI
IPC: E05B47/00
Filed: 1986-04-01
Abstract: The device comprises a PTC type resistive heating element (12) subjected to an electric voltage and thereby heated when a washing machine is actuated and a bimetallic actuating element (14) on one surface of the heating element (12), so that when the latter is heated, its temperature and that of the bimetallic actuating element have an initial period of rapid increase followed by a period of slower increase. The bimetallic actuating element (14) is deformable through heating so as to move (during said initial period) a locking means (18) for the machine door. One or more bimetallic control elements (10a, 10b, 10c) are connected to the other surface of the heating element (12) by an element (11) and when heated, become deformed in the opposite direction to the bimetallic actuating element. The element (11) has a shape and thermal capacity such that, the bimetallic control elements (10) are heated only after a preset delay which is substantially of the same order as the said initial period. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2178646-A (GB)
Title: Back-packs
Inventor: CLARK DAVID FRANCIS
IPC: A45F3/04
Filed: 1986-07-16
Abstract: A back-pack comprises a load- carrier (1) which is attached to a waist fitment (2) in such a manner that its height can be adjusted relative to the waist fitment. The load-carrier is provided with rails (8) which extend through clamps (22) on the waist fitment; this locates the load-carrier relative to the waist fitment but enables it to be moved vertically relative to the waist fitment. Clamping straps (12) made from relatively rought textile material are attached at their ends to the load-carrier and extend adjacent to the rails. The clamping straps also extend through the clamps. Each of the clamps can be moved between the clamping state, in which it grips the clamping strap to prevent adjustment of the load-carrier relative to the waist fitment, and a release state in which it does not so act. The anchorage for shoulder straps (3) of the back-pack may be made adjustable in a similar manner. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2179263-A (GB)
Title: Sports racquet assembly
Inventor: VAN HOBOKEN JOHN ANTHONY
IPC: A63B49/14
Filed: 1986-08-21
Abstract: A sports racquet has a frame with a head 13 joined to a shaft by a throat. The frame is moulded out of reinforced plastics material and the head 13 has a wholly convex profile in cross-section. A bumper strip 50 is fitted to the head and has an array of holes 57 registering with string holes 70 in the head and a peripheral groove 53 joining the outer ends of the holes 57 to ensure that the strings 71 do not project radially beyond the surface of the bumper strip 50. The racquet is strung by threading the strings 71 through the holes in both the head and the bumper strip. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2201899-A (GB)
Title: Toy figure
Inventor: WOOLHOUSE KENNETH
IPC: A63H3/46
Filed: 1987-02-02
Abstract: A toy figure having a torso and a limb 1, wherein, the connection between the torso and the limb comprises a part-spherical recess 3 in the torso, a mating part-spherical surface 2 on the adjacent end of the limb rotatably received in said recess, and anchoring means comprising a ball 5 secured to the torso concentrically with the said recess 3, and a mating socket 7 in the limb, concentric with the said part-spherical surface of 2 the limb, which rotatably receives the said ball. <IMAGE>