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Patent GB-2232183-A (GB)
Title: Portable road barrier
Inventor: DAWSON JOHN
IPC: E01F9/012
Filed: 1990-05-15
Abstract: A portable road barrier comprises a road cone 13 with a conical upper portion 15 and an upper extension 25 with a lower tapered portion 26 for resting on the portion 15. The extension 25 and cone 13 have locating means for flexible material. As shown these are a tongue 19 formed in the wall of portion 15 and a recess 28 in the top of the extension for locating a flexible mesh 11. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2246863-A (GB)
Title: Crack monitoring gauge
Inventor: JOHNSON ROGER WILLIAM
IPC: G01B5/14
Filed: 1990-07-26
Abstract: The gauge comprises two plates 10, 12 each having a portion provided with markings and a securing portion, whereby the plates can be secured on respective portions of a structure with the portions with the markings in a mutual sliding overlapping relationship, whereby the relative movement of the markings with respect to each other provides an indication of the relative movement of the building portions, at least one of the securing portions 32 being hinged 40 to its associated portion for displacement to lie in a direction transverse to the mutual sliding overlapping plate portions. Thus, widening of a crack in a corner can be monitored. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2236748-A (GB)
Title: Process for brightening flue gas gypsum
Inventor: HULLER ROLF
IPC: B01D53/50
Filed: 1990-10-12
Abstract: The process for brightening flue gas gypsum from flue gas wet-desulfurization plants wherein the washing liquor is thickened via a hydrocyclone and the hydrocyclone overflow is recycled to the washing circulation system and the thickened hydrocyclone underflow is separated into flue gas gypsum and washing liquor, is carried out by that the hydrocyclone overflow, prior to recycling same, is subjected to a further separation by means of a hydrocyclone, the underflow of which is directly recycled into the washing circulation system and the overflow of which is separated into thick sludge and washing liquor to be recycled into the washing circulation system is disclosed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2236579-A (GB)
Title: Inlet valve for cisterns
Inventor: ORBELL JOSEPH ROBIN
IPC: F16K33/00
Filed: 1989-05-16
Abstract: An inlet valve for a cistern (10) comprises a float (28) comprising first and second sealed compartments (32, 34) and a valve body (12) containing contiguous apertured discs (22, 24). The compartment (34) is smaller than the compartment (32) and the compartment (34) is offset such that when the rising liquid level in the cistern reaches the compartment (34) the valve is caused to close rapidly.
Patent GB-2252112-A (GB)
Title: Portable sun guard.
Inventor: DEACON JOHN
IPC: E04H15/58
Filed: 1991-01-26
Abstract: A sun guard, assembled from parts that form a portable carrying box, consists of two identical units each consisting of a flexible horizontal surface 10 or 12 and two removable legs 14 inserted in holes 15. The legs are stored between the two surfaces, one of which has a carrying handle 13. Bases 16 and fins 17 stabilise the guard. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2253436-A (GB)
Title: Security padlock bracket
Inventor: BAILLIE PETER BARR
IPC: E05B67/38
Filed: 1991-03-07
Abstract: A bracket of steel construction 1 with a projecting staple 2 which passes through the slot in a garage door 4 at a point where it is reinforced by the plates bolted on either side thereof. On closure of the garage door 4 the staple 2 passes through the slot and enables a padlock 5 to be secured on the outside thus preventing the raising of the garage door. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2254094-A (GB)
Title: Warning triangle.
Inventor: HOLMES JOHN WEST
IPC: E01F9/012
Filed: 1991-03-28
Abstract: The support (14) for a warning triangle is in the form of a box which is adapted to enclose the triangle when it is collapsed. The warning triangle (10) comprises three reflective, linear elements (11, 12, 13) and a light source (24) arranged to project light to make the triangle more visible. The first element (11) is pivotably attached to a support (14), the first (11) and second (12) elements are attached one to another and the third element (13) is pivotably attached to the second element (12). The light source includes one or more electric lamps (14) connected via an electric socket (26) to an electric power source (21). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2254974-A (GB)
Title: Radio beacons
Inventor: BAILEY CLIVE JOHN
IPC: G01S1/68
Filed: 1991-04-19
Abstract: A beacon, for example, a buoy for surface deployment in search and rescue (S.A.R.) exercises includes a radio transmitter (32) for providing homing signals only after a selectable delay period so as to ensure an adequate visual search is first attempted. The delay period is provided by inhibitor (30) which includes a presetable, variable timer (48), and together with three position switch (18) when in its ON position, the inhibitor prevents transmission for the delay period. Inhibitor (31) may be a pressure switch. Transmitter (32) may comprise a VHF frequency modulated (36) by an AF signal (34). Controller (42) allows the duration of and interval between transmissions to be selected. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2256143-A (GB)
Title: Child's bottle holder with releasably closed loop and clothing attachment means
IPC: A61J9/06
Filed: 1991-05-22
Abstract: The invention provides for a baby's bottle holder having bottle engagement means (34) and support means (14, 14') extending from the bottle engaging means (34) and for forming a loop closed by means of a releasable joint or fastener (16) for passing around pan of a child's body so that the bottle (12) can be suspended from the baby's body and remain at arms length. The support means may include adjustable toggles (24) for attaching the support to a child's clothing with the bottle suspended at the correct height. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2256446-A (GB)
Title: External wall insulation / rendering profile.
Inventor: MASON COLIN ERIC
IPC: E04F13/06
Filed: 1991-06-05
Abstract: The profile is made of a plastics material (low density cellular core covered by an integral skin), is L-shaped and is intended for fixing to a building wall by one of its limbs (11). The other limb supports panels, sheets or bats of insulation material, or such panels, sheets or bats are butted up to said other limb, depending upon the position in which the profile is used (door/window head profiles, base profile or stop ends). The free end portion (14) of the other limb can be canted at an angle of about 30 DEG  to create a weather drip when the profile is to be used as a base profile or a door/window profile. Said free end portion may also be slotted (15) parallel to the end to provide a joining means and a rendering key. Said other limb may be apertured (20) for drainage/ventilation. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2259423-A (GB)
Title: Automatic control of television camera iris
Inventor: RIGGS NORMAN GEORGE PERCY
IPC: H04N5/235
Filed: 1991-09-09
Abstract: A video camera (2) is provided with a movement detector (6). The output of the detector (6) is used by a control circuit (6) to vary the response time of the auto-iris in the camera (2) in dependence on the amount of movement in a scene at which the camera is pointed and for low levels of motion, the response time of the auto-iris is made rapid. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2250408-A (GB)
Title: Food package with overlapping microwave susceptor layers
Inventor: WOODS KENNETH DAVID
IPC: B65D81/34
Filed: 1991-11-11
Abstract: Packaging for foodstuff to be cooked in a microwave oven has receptor material which heats up due to microwave interaction and can therefore conduct heat to the foodstuff for example to brown or crisp same, which cannot be achieved by microwave action alone. The packaging is constructed so that in one area thereof, there are two overlapping but discrete layers 14, 20 of the receptor material so that such area heat up more intensely than other areas of the packaging to apply more intense local heat to a part of the foodstuff requiring such heat. Susceptor material may be printed onto a cardboard blank or applied as a metallised film and the blank overlapped, or the second susceptor layer may be carried on an insert. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-914941-A (GB)
IPC: E21C27/02
Abstract: 914,941. Mineral-mining machines. EICKHOFF, MASCHINENFABRIK UND EISENGEISSEREI GEB. Oct. 2, 1959 [Oct. 7, 1958], No. 33419/59. Addition to 835,062. Class 68 (1). The coal-getting machine of the parent Specification, which is referred to, is modified in that the upper shoot plates 8, which can be swung into and away from the space excavated by the cutter discs or drum and which serves as extensions of the lower shoot plates 6, rest on the plates 6 and are additionally supported by legs 12 pivoted at 17 to the body 2 of the machine. The pivot 17 of each shoot 8 is disposed as near to the coal face and as low as possible to prevent the shoot 8 when being swung from fouling the roof. Each shoot 8 has a deflector plate 9 at the side remote from the cutter drum or discs. The legs 12 are guided in slots 11 in the shoots 6, the ends of the slots acting as stops when the shoots 8 are swung out from the face by means of a hook being engaged in a hole 14 provided in the deflector plate 9.
Patent GB-2266009-A (GB)
Title: Air bearing in brushless electric motor.
Inventor: WOOLLEY RONALD WILLIAM
IPC: G11B25/04
Filed: 1992-04-08
Abstract: A data storage disc drive unit 1 comprises a brushless d.c. electric motor 2 having a central stator structure 3 surrounded, in a concentric manner, by a co-operating rotor structure 4. The stator 3 and surrounding rotor 4 together define a small annular gap 5, which is used to establish a plain, sell-acting, air bearing film between the stator 2 and rotor 4. The drive unit 1 is also provided with rotor thrust bearing means 6 operable to restrain axial movement of the rotor 4 relative to the stator 2 and along the rotational axis 7 of the rotor. The magnets 29 and 18 are aligned with each other and are of opposite polarity, whereby they mutually attract to each other. This attraction urges the rotor 4 in the direction of arrow 30, pre-loading the ball bearing 20 and restraining axial movement of the stator 4 in a direction opposite to that indicated by arrow 30, so as to hold the rotor 4 in place, regardless of the attitude of the drive unit 1. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2255680-A (GB)
Title: Multiple latched accumulator fractional n synthesis
Inventor: HIETALA ALEXANDER W
IPC: H03L7/197
Filed: 1992-04-29
Abstract: A multiple latched accumulator fractional-N synthesizer for use in digital radio tranceivers is disclosed. The divisor of the frequency divider (103) of the synthesizer is varied with time by the summation of accumulator carry output digital sequences which result in frequency increments equal to a fraction of the reference frequency. The accumulators (615, 617) are latched such that upon the occurrence of a clock pulse, data is transferred through each accumulator one clock pulse step at a time, such that the delay through the system is equal to that of only one accumulator. The carry outputs of the accumulators (615, 617) are coupled through delays (645, 647, 649, 631, 633) equal to one less delay than the number of accumulators and added (635) such that all higher order accumulator carry outputs add to a net summation of zero so as to not upset the desired fractional setting of the first accumulator. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2268067-A (GB)
Title: Cholangiography catheter set
Inventor: CUND PETER
IPC: A61M25/06
Filed: 1992-06-26
Abstract: The set comprises a guide tube 2 having an obtuse bend 4 adjacent an open end 6 and a flexible catheter 10 having a tapered end 16 which exits the tube 2 at an obtuse angle to the main axis of the tube, thereby simplifying the operation of inserting the catheter end 16 through an incision in the cystic duct. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2265998-A (GB)
Title: Solid state display
Inventor: RAWLINGS KEITH CHARLES
IPC: G09F9/33
Filed: 1993-02-19
Abstract: A display or other radiation-emitting device (1) has an array of vertical ballistic transistors (18) which produce electrons that flow into overlying phosphor regions (16). Light produced by the phosphors is focused by an array of convex lenses (100) above the phosphor regions to provide a high intensity display with limited viewing angle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2276875-A (GB)
Title: Methods and a composition for dewatering silt
Inventor: MELHUISH RICHARD
IPC: C02F11/12
Filed: 1993-03-11
Abstract: A method of substantially dewatering silt using a composition comprising quick lime; and optionally pulverised fuel ash.
Patent GB-2265667-A (GB)
Title: A magnetically coupled pump
Inventor: AHLFELDT JURGEN
IPC: F04D13/02
Filed: 1993-03-29
Abstract: A magnetically coupled pump is protected from damage by provision of an inductive proximity switch 39 between the outer wall 25 and the outer rotor 22 so that if the outer rotor is in danger of wobbling sufficiently to cause contact, the switch detects this condition before damage can occur and stops the pump motor. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2276941-A (GB)
Title: Controllers for radiator valves
Inventor: GORMAN DEREK
IPC: G05D23/02
Filed: 1993-04-08
Abstract: A thermostatic radiator valve 1 comprises a valve body 2 to which is attached a thermostatic, rotatable, controller 3 which comprises body portion 5 in which is rotatably mounted a temperature adjusting head 4, the temperature adjusting head 4 being thermally isolated from the valve body 2 by a coupling portion 7 the external form of which merges smoothly with the body portion 5 and which is constructed to define an internal annular space communicating with the outside by passageways 8 enabling convection currents to cool a thermal isolating portion. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2269684-A (GB)
Title: Refrigerator compressor output control
Inventor: SHIMODE TETSUO
IPC: F24F5/00
Filed: 1993-07-20
Abstract: In an arrangement to regulate the temperature of the working fluid in a refrigerating apparatus, the compressor is set to operate at one of a number of levels in dependence upon the temperature of the fluid at the outlet and inlet of the refrigeration means. The temperature range of the working fluid is divided into a number of zones each having an associated compressor output including a compressor off level and the compressor is set to operate at the level corresponding to the sensed outlet temperature. When the compressor has been shut off, it is only restarted when the inlet temperature exceeds one of the zone boundaries thus producing a hysteresis effect. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2269161-A (GB)
Title: Cigarette packets with hinged lids
Inventor: DE MARTIS GIANCARLO
IPC: B65D5/66
Filed: 1993-07-20
Abstract: A rigid cigarette packet has a hinged lid (4) and a box structure (2) containing the cigarettes (3), which exhibits a bottom end face (21), a front and a rear face (6, 7) and two flank faces (8). The lid (4), hinged to the rear face (7) along a transverse crease (5), incorporates a flap (24) hinged to the forwardmost edge and functioning as a connecting and securing element (9) capable of engaging detachably with the front face (6) of the box. By applying a layer of self-adhesive material (11) to the flap (24) and a layer of waxed material (12) to the corresponding part of the front face (6), it becomes possible to detach and reaffix the lid (4) repeatedly and thus prolong the freshness of the cigarettes once the packet has been broken open. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2280856-A (GB)
Title: Mixing and discharging
Inventor: GUILLO JAIME MIRALLES
IPC: B01F23/47
Filed: 1993-08-10
Abstract: A mixture-injection blending machine for any product in the liquid or paste phase, consists of a cylindrical tank 01 which may rotate, and comprises a rising and falling cover 02 which varies the volume of the tank inside which a rotary plunger 03 turns in either direction and moves up and down, and whose surface may incorporate teeth 06 or shearing components 07 for the mass to be blended, said mass being ejected through an output duct 11 as the cover 02 and plunger 03 descend and compress the mass. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2282910-A (GB)
Title: Alphabet and numeral teaching aid
Inventor: NERIEUX MAUREEN ALMA
IPC: G09B11/00
Filed: 1993-10-13
Abstract: The aid for teaching a child letters of the alphabet and numerals comprises one or more letters or numerals each marked with different colours to indicate starting and finishing points of a respective letter or numeral, one or more intermediate points of a respective letter or numeral and, one or more intermediate points of a respective letter or numeral. In one arrangement, the teaching aid comprises a set of cards each coated with plastic and each printed with a letter of the alphabet marked with different colours to indicate starting and finishing points of the respective letter.
Patent GB-2273640-A (GB)
Title: Milking machine clawpiece
Inventor: GRIFFIN TONY KENNETH
IPC: A01J5/04
Filed: 1993-11-23
Abstract: A milking clawpiece (12) in which the pulsation distribution chamber (40) is evacuated and the liner opens so that milk flows as far as the (closed) clawpiece valves (52), whereas when the pulsation chamber is at atmospheric pressure, the liner closes and the clawpiece valve opens to allow the short milk tubes to discharge their contents via the clawpiece cavity (42) into the long milk tube.
Patent GB-2284907-A (GB)
Title: Navigation system for automatically guided vehicle
Inventor: MCKAIG ANDREW
IPC: G05D1/02
Filed: 1993-12-18
Abstract: A navigation system for an automatically guided vehicle 1 comprises a target 3a positioned in line with the direction of travel of the vehicle 1 and a camera 2 mounted on the vehicle 1. The target 3a has a pattern 4, 5 formed on it. The camera 2 forms an image of the target 3a and control means determine the position of the pattern in the image of the target 3a and steer the vehicle 1 towards a position in which the position of the pattern is indicative of the vehicle 1 being in its desired position. The distance from the vehicle 1 to the target 3a may be determined from the pattern 4, 5 so that the vehicle can be made to turn at the correct place BCDE. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2275622-A (GB)
Title: Screening apparatus
Inventor: MILES ALAN ALFRED
IPC: B07B1/10
Filed: 1994-02-24
Abstract: Sewage flows along a channel (2) in the direction from right to left and through an endless screening belt (4) located with its lower region in the sewage stream. The belt (4) consists of pivotally connected perforated screening elements (12) each consisting of a shorter part (14) and a longer part (16) connected at an acute angle to one another. The belt (4) travels anti-clockwise causing solid particles larger than the perforations to be carried upwardly on the shorter parts (14). When each screening element (12) reaches the upper region of the belt (4) the solids drop into a screw conveyor (30) which conveys them to a desired location. A rotary brush (24) and a liquid spray assist the removal of solids from the belt. Any solids which fall clear of the screw conveyor (30) fall back into the channel (2) upstream of the inlet region of the belt (4). This arrangement reduces the risk of solid sewage entering and polluting the cleansed liquid sewage effluent downstream of the conveyor belt (4). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2293343-A (GB)
Title: Knife
Inventor: WANG MON-CHANG
IPC: B26B9/02
Filed: 1994-09-23
Abstract: A knife 10 has a handle 12 attached to a blade 14 having a corrugated blade portion 141. The blade has a top edge 17 and a cutting edge 16 which is formed as a flat plane intersecting a corrugated plane at an angle, so that it has a corrugated form. The blade keeps food from adhering thereto during slicing as it has a corrugated form. The cutting edge saws food as it has a corrugated form. The blade is formed by means of forging followed by grinding to form the cutting edge using a grindstone 16. … <IMAGE> …
Patent GB-2294419-A (GB)
Title: Handling foraminous sheets in industrial catalysis
Inventor: HEYWOOD ALAN EDWARD
IPC: B01J35/02
Filed: 1994-10-24
Abstract: A foraminous sheet for use in catalysis (36) is placed upon a former (12) that supports the sheet (36) in a compact curved configuration during storage and transportation but which, during installation of the sheet in a catalytic reactor (38), releases the sheet (36) into a flat configuration in situ within the reactor (38). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2299668-A (GB)
Title: Fire sensor using ultrasonic sound
Inventor: APPLEBY DAVID
IPC: G08B17/00
Filed: 1995-04-01
Abstract: A sensor 1 comprises drive electronics and a transducer 5 which emits ultrasound, and a second transducer 6 which receives the ultrasound via direct paths 7, and via indirect paths 8 by reflection from the surfaces 2 of volume in which the sensor is installed. Should a fire 3 occur in the volume, rising bubbles of warm air 4 refract some of the ultrasonic beams 9 changing their path lengths, and consequently the amplitude, frequency and phase of the ultrasound is disturbed. Receiving electronics derives a signal which varies as a function of this disturbance, and signal processing is carried out within a microcomputer to identify random and/or chaotic components which may be characteristic of the presence of a fire. The sensor may used in a sensitive low cost fire detector, and may be readily combined with an ultrasound motion sensor to also detect the presence of people.
Patent GB-2288164-A (GB)
Title: Lifting device for elongate loads
Inventor: ORR ALASTAIR ANGUS
IPC: A47F7/16
Filed: 1995-04-04
Abstract: A lifting device for use in lifting elongate loads, for example rolls of carpet or other floor covering, comprises two freestanding hoists (1, 1), separably interconnected, for example by cross-bars (13, 14, 15) which may be of variable length, for the hoists to operate generally in parallel. Preferably, the hoists are vertically adjustable in height, use bonds 8 and have a plurality of hooks 12 for storing a number of rolls of carpets. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2299922-A (GB)
Title: A plastics cloche
Inventor: WETTERN LAURENCE PATRICK
IPC: A01G13/04
Filed: 1995-04-19
Abstract: A cloche consists of a sheet of transparent or translucent plastics material 1 that is held in a curved tunnel-shape by restraining members 2. The restraining members may take the form of hoops 2 or pegs (figure 3, not shown) including clips 3 to engage the edges of the sheet and spikes 4 to hold the cloche to the ground. The plastics sheet from which the cloche is made can be obtained from a plastics bottle.
Patent GB-2287270-A (GB)
Title: Spoolable coiled tubing completion system
Inventor: MOORE BRIAN KEITH
IPC: E21B17/20
Filed: 1994-10-10
Abstract: A retrieval system for retrieving a coiled tubing system 10 from a well comprises a coiled tubing hanger 28 supporting and sealing the outside of the upper end of the coiled tubing; a wellhead 24, valve blowout preventer 22 and injector head 20 positioned above the tubing hanger; and a second coiled tubing 34b positioned on a reel 16 and having a first end having a longitudinally actuated internal gripping connector attached thereto for insertion through the injector, blowout preventer and wellhead into the upper end of the first coiled tubing for gripping and removal of the first coiled tubing from the well. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2292668-A (GB)
Title: Coating a brillant cut diamond to determine its proportion
Inventor: HARUO KIKUCHI
IPC: A44C17/00
Filed: 1995-06-01
Abstract: A brilliant cut diamond (10) has a colored portion (7) formed by application of a coloring agent to a pyramid-shaped face of a pavilion (2) thereof at and around a culet (6) thereof. The quality of the brilliant cut of the diamond (10) can be identified from an aspect of color when light internally reflected in the diamond (10) is visually observed through a crown (1) of the diamond (10). The diamond in a setting (8) is also claimed. The colouring agent is oil ink. <IMAGE>