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Patent GB-2313429-A (GB)
Title: Gate valve bonnet assembly with speed reducer
Inventor: WILLIAMS MICHAEL R
IPC: F16K31/48
Filed: 1997-05-09
Abstract: The assembly 10 includes a bonnet housing 40 which is attached to a body 11 of the gate valve and has a central bore 43 and a chamber 45 along the central bore. A valve stem 48 is movably positioned within bore 43 and coupled to gate 30 and to a valve actuator 50. A piston 60 is slideably received on the valve stem 48 and is positioned within chamber 45. The piston includes at least one damping hole 64. A flange 70 is attached to the valve stem and abuts against piston 60 to move the piston when the valve stem 48 is moved from the closed position to the open position. A spring 74 is provided for independently moving the piston 60 to the original position when the valve stem 48 is moved from the open position to the closed position, and the flange 70 leaves contact with the piston 60, allowing rapid undamped closure of the gate 30.
Patent GB-2313248-A (GB)
Title: Fully-open headphones with acoustic equalizer
Inventor: NAGENO KOJI
IPC: H04R1/10
Filed: 1997-05-12
Abstract: The headphones comprise an acoustic unit for converting an audio signal to an acoustic sound, a supporting means for supporting the acoustic unit keeping the predetermined distance to the ear of a listener and an acoustic equalizer 5 provided in front of the acoustic unit in view of transferring the sound wave outputted from the acoustic equalizer to the ear of a listener after correcting the frequency characteristic thereof.
Patent GB-2316633-A (GB)
Title: Antifouling coating
Inventor: YAMAMORI NAOKI
IPC: C09D151/00
Filed: 1997-08-26
Abstract: A nonelution type antifouling coating is formed from a composition comprising at least two resins insoluble in seawater and incompatable with each other on top of the outermost layer of underwater portion of a marine structure and has a microheterogeneous structure in which granular or disk-like minute protrusions with a mean size of 10 nm to 20 ~m in diameter comprising at least one of said resins occupy 5 to 49% of the surface area of the coating film. The composition may    , an airplane model, a ship model, a doll body and an animal
Patent GB-2328670-A (GB)
Title: A billet transfer apparatus
Inventor: TWIST ERNEST FRANK
IPC: B21C33/00
Filed: 1997-08-29
Abstract: A billet transfer apparatus for use with a metal extrusion press comprises a base structure (1) supporting a carriage (2) movable (1) between a first position and a second position. A jaw arrangement (10) is mounted on the carriage (1) and is adapted for carrying a sheared billet (11). Means (12,13, 14) are provided for rotating the jaw arrangement (10) relative to the base structure (1) in order to rotate a carried billet (11) through 180‹ about a vertical axis normal to its longitudinal axis. The jaw arrangement (10) can also be moved vertically relative to the base structure (10) between first and second levels. Means (7,8) are also provided for moving the carriage relative to the base structure (1) between said first and second positions. Thus, during one cycle of operation, the jaw arrangement (10) can be loaded with a sheared billet (11) from a shear cutter (S), moved to a said second level, and transported by movement of the carriage (2) into said second position wherein a carried billet (11) can be off-loaded into a container (C) of an adjacent extrusion press (P). Preferably a lubricator (16), a pusher (17) and a further clamp (18, Fig 1) for undersize billets are also provided.
Patent GB-2318618-A (GB)
Title: Control valves
Inventor: CHRISTENSEN CARSTEN
IPC: F15B13/04
Filed: 1997-09-18
Abstract: The invention concerns a control valve (1) with a housing (2), having a pump connection (13), a tank connection arrangement (9, 10), a work connection arrangement (5, 6) and a load pressure connection arrangement, each connected with an opening arrangement (14, 11, 12, 7, 8, 15, 16) in a control surface, and with a slider member (3), arranged movably in the housing (2) and co-operating with the control surface, wherein the slider member has grooves (17, 18) and/or channels (19, 22), such that it connects or isolates predetermined opening arrangements with/from each other. In such a control valve, fluid tightness is to be improved. For this purpose, additionally an auxiliary tank connection arrangement (31, 32) is provided, which is connected with an auxiliary tank opening arrangement (27, 28) in the control surface. The slider member (3) has an auxiliary tank conduit or groove (29, 30), which, in its neutral position, connects the auxiliary tank opening arrangement (27, 28) with the load pressure opening arrangement (15, 16).
Patent GB-2331023-A (GB)
Title: Time patrol hedgerow
Inventor: MCCARTHY DONNA LOUISE
IPC: A63H3/28
Filed: 1997-11-05
Abstract: Time patrol hedgerow has an in built voice with flashing antennas with four pockets. 1) Pocket of multi coloured flashing buttons 1) Pocket closed 2 bottom pockets open topped for hand held stunner and hand held time control to slot down into. Movable arms that slip in and out of side pockets. Hands that hold controls press open coat revealing five shelves and storage jars some filled with aliens others empty with screw top lids to collect other samples of life on hat band a date counter and scroll to scroll down date to go backwards and forwards through time. Battery Operated.
Patent GB-2322463-A (GB)
Title: Selecting display icons
Inventor: KOJIMA KUNIO
IPC: H04N5/445
Filed: 1998-02-04
Abstract: A media selecting device enables a user to easily select any one of hierarchically-related icons by moving a series of icons across a display screen by turning a rotary disk-type knob (2), a first change-over button (3) being pressed when the required icon is at a central position,thereby displaying icons of a lower hierarchical layer as a static array from which one can be selected by turning the knob to the appropriate angle and pressing the button (3), there being a second change-over button (4) for cancelling the selected icon and displaying icons of a higher hierarchical layer. The icons have different three-dimensional shapes and are disposed in a three-dimensional virtual space, thus increasing the visibility and controllability of the device.
Patent GB-2326459-A (GB)
Title: Torsional vibration damper
Inventor: ORLAMUNDER ANDREAS
IPC: F16F15/131
Filed: 1998-03-16
Abstract: A torsional vibration damper 10 comprises an input mass part 14 and an output mass part 20 coupled together by a plurality of coupling elements 30 arranged to allow the input and output mass parts to be tilted with respect to one another, so that when one of the parts performs an eccentric movement this is not transmitted to the other part. The coupling elements 30 may be connected to the input and output mass parts by elastically deformable means or loose bushes (Figs. 2 to 12) or the element 30 may have a thin central region (166, Fig. 29). The coupling element 30 may have a friction part (176, Fig.30) or may move in a viscous fluid (232, Fig.38).
Patent GB-2327076-A (GB)
Title: Hydraulic crowd mechanisms
Inventor: RATCLIFFE SIMON JOHN
IPC: B66F9/065
Filed: 1998-03-23
Abstract: A crowd means on a load handling lift truck comprises a crowd ram 35 connected in fluid circuit with a compensation ram 41 to cause automatic tilting of the load handling implement 32 relative to the boom 29 to maintain the implement in a constant orientation relative to a horizontal plane as the boom is raised or lowered. The crowd means further comprises a tilt means connected in fluid circuit with an operator control for supply of fluid thereto to cause tilting movement of the implement relative to the boom. Preferably the tilt means comprises a second ram (70, Fig 20) independent of the first ram, alternatively the tilt means comprises a dosing pot i.e. a cylinder with a floating piston. The dosing pot (407, Fig 21) is connected in fluid circuit with the crowd ram to allow operator control of the crowd ram. Preferably the crowd ram comprises first and second cylinders disposed co-axially end to end (35, Fig 9). Preferably the crowd means permits a larger arc of movement of the implement than the tilt means.
Patent GB-2325654-A (GB)
Title: Automotive air bag device
Inventor: SHIMANE JUN-ICHI
IPC: B60R21/20
Filed: 1998-03-26
Abstract: An automotive air bag device offers ready installation in an automobile instrument panel 11 while reducing material and assembly costs and maintaining its structural integrity when activated. An air bag inflation opening 12a, formed in the instrument panel 11, is surrounded by an internal reinforcement wall 12c. An air bag lid 15, which covers the opening, includes an inwardly directed leg 15d which engages the reinforcement wall 12c. A case 20 which supports an inflator 21 and a diffuser 22, is fastened to the leg 15d on the lid 15. The air bag lid 15 has at least one projection 15f, 15g which interengages with an engagement portion on the panel 11 when the air bag lid 15 is inserted into the air bag opening 12a to retain the air bag lid 15 in the air bag opening.
Patent GB-2328521-A (GB)
Title: Programmable 'electronic clutch' for an I. S. machine
Inventor: LISKA TIMOTHY J
IPC: C03B9/453
Filed: 1998-05-13
Abstract: The motor 46 for a pusher mechanism in an I. S. (individual section) glassware manufacturing machine is controlled by generator 36 which determines a profile of segments (A1..A4 Fig 3) of differing constant acceleration at respective segments of the pusher travel. For each segment, the motor current is compared at 49 with a settable limit value (X1..X4) provided by logic circuit 33 in response to position data 'd' and, if the limit is exceeded, the motor is stopped. The circuit thus acts as an electronic clutch. Position signals 'p' from an encoder on the motor are used to provide feedback to sum with position data 'd' at 48.
Patent GB-2326249-A (GB)
Title: Throttle element
Inventor: CLAUSS HELMUT
IPC: F16L55/00
Filed: 1998-05-29
Abstract: A throttle element for installation into a fuel-carrying duct (1) is formed as a screwed-in insert (5), comprising a head (6) which, with respect to a cylindrical peripheral wall (11) of the duct (1), forms an annular gap (14) which is disposed as a filter upstream of the throttle (21) of the throttle element.
Patent GB-2325910-A (GB)
Title: Exhaust gas system for sea-going ships for military purposes
Inventor: BAUMANN KNUT
IPC: F01N13/12
Filed: 1998-06-05
Abstract: In an exhaust gas system for sea-going ships, preferably for military purposes, which are equipped with at least one internal combustion engine and with at least one gas turbine, the exhaust gases of the gas turbine 1 and those of the internal combustion engine 2a,2b are introduced into an exhaust gas collecting duct 4,5 which extends substantially horizontally through the ships hull up to the stern of the ship and there opens at 6 closely above the waterline into the open air. The exhaust gases mix in the exhaust gas collecting duct, with the hot exhaust gases of the gas turbine being cooled down by the comparatively cooler exhaust gases of the internal combustion engine. In this way the danger of the infrared-position finding is reduced.The exhaust gases may be further cooled by the injection of sea water 8.
Patent GB-2327768-A (GB)
Title: Manufacturing a liquid crystal display element
Inventor: KIDO MASAMI
IPC: G02F1/1339
Filed: 1998-07-10
Abstract: In manufacturing steps of a liquid crystal display element, after forming electrodes 2, an insulating layer 3, and an alignment control layer 4 on a substrate 1, an inorganic coating 5 made of an inorganic material is formed on the alignment control layer 4, and a region between the electrodes 2 on the inorganic coating 5 is exposed by UV light. Thereafter, a layer of adhesive including spacer beads is formed on the inorganic coating 5, and the adhesive is removed by a solvent such as water together with an unexposed portion of the inorganic coating 5 so as to form space keepers 6 made of the adhesive. Then, electrode substrates 10 and 20 are strongly bonded with each other by the space keepers 6, and as a result a constant spacing is maintained between the electrode substrates 10 and 20 by the spacer beads. This prevents the alignment control layer from being contaminated and damaged in the manufacturing steps, and improves the bond strength of the substrates, thus providing a liquid crystal display element having superior displaying quality and shock resistance.
Patent GB-2330318-A (GB)
Title: Power Transmission Demonstration Toy
Inventor: YAMAZAKI TOMOHIRO
IPC: A63H31/00
Filed: 1998-10-05
Abstract: An instructional device for demonstrating power transmission comprises a flat base 1, a rotary drive, eg an electric motor, to a fixed axis driving member 3 and one or more driven members 4 which can be moved into co-operation with the driving member 3. The driven members 4 are all held onto the base by magnetic attraction, allowing for free movement around the base and for engagement even while the driving member is continuously rotating. The members 3, 4 can be gears or rollers, form a belt drive, or can constitute a crank and linkage mechanism. Switches, Fig 9 (not shown), can control the driven member to rotate in either sense or at different speeds, eg by interposing alternative gears between the motor and the driven member.
Patent GB-2343266-A (GB)
Title: Event controller object
Inventor: FLENLEY JOHN MARTIN
IPC: G06F9/46
Filed: 1998-10-29
Abstract: An event controller is instantiated from an owning process which is either a conventional type C program or a web page running within a browser. The event controller includes a register method adapted to register an owning process' interest in an event and to notify the owning process on the occurrence of said event; an inform method adapted to inform other processes of the occurrence of an event within the owning process; and a query method adapted to return event data to the owning process. The invention enables the conventional type program to listen to events occurring within a web page program and to act as a pump for providing the next web page and/or for calculating information to be included in the next page.
Patent GB-2330819-A (GB)
Title: Method of packaging one or more articles within a container by loading them over a deformable plastics material
Inventor: CRADDOCK WILLIAM GEORGE VAUGHA
IPC: B65B5/06
Filed: 1998-11-03
Abstract: An apparatus and method for packaging one or more articles inside a container 1 includes the steps of extending a web 4 of deformable plastics material across the open face, and flap means, of a container. One or more articles are then loaded onto the plastics material to deform it to the general shape of the article within the container, and the plastics material is secured to at least part of the flap means 2. The flap means are then folded and secured to contact the article and close the open face. The open face is preferably the base of the container, and additional cushioning may be provided between the article and the base of the container. Once loaded the container is inverted, so that it has a low centre of gravity, and is stable during transport. The deformable plastic material may be sealed to the container by heat sensitive adhesive, cold adhesive, or any other suitable method. Preferably the plastic material is provided in a roll, or other elongate web, and is held across the open face of the container under tension applied by clamping means 6.
Patent GB-2331978-A (GB)
Title: A method and apparatus for taking liquid samples in a gas outlet pipe of a liquid/gas separator, fed with an oil well effluent
Inventor: GUIEZE PAUL
IPC: G01N1/22
Filed: 1998-12-02
Abstract: A sample of fluid such as a gaseous fluid leaving a liquid/gas separator in a surface installation of an oil well, is taken continuously via a sampling tube 18. The tube 18 opens out on the axis of a gas outlet pipe 16, facing towards the separator receptacle and located at the junction between the pipe and the receptacle. Sampling is performed isokinetically by regulating the flow rate in the tube by means of a regulator valve 28 controlled by a regulator as a function of flow rates measured in the tube and in the pipe. In the tube 18, liquid is separated from the gas by means of a filter 22.
Patent GB-2345478-A (GB)
Title: Treadle-operated scooter
Inventor: OBREE DOUGLAS GRAEME
IPC: B62M1/24
Filed: 1999-01-08
Abstract: The scooter has its rear wheel 3 rotated by the up and down arcuate motion of two treadles operated by the respective legs of a user. Each treadle has a pivoted member 4, 5 coupled to a respective crank 6, 7, the cranks being in opposed radial directions on either side of a chainwheel 11 coupled to the rear wheel 3 by a chain.
Patent GB-2346092-A (GB)
Title: Tri-powered method of powering radio controlled toys
Inventor: LAI WING KAI
IPC: A63H29/22
Filed: 1999-01-26
Abstract: A radio controlled toy with a ventilated rectangular housing on the internal or external surface of chassis 1 has a connector socket 3 and is capable of accepting a detachable battery box 6 for AA batteries, a 9.6 volt battery pack 7 and a 7.2 volt battery pack 8, all with a connector plug 9. This allows the user to use any of the three different power sources.
Patent GB-2347333-A (GB)
Title: Planting and harvesting method and apparatus
Inventor: SANDERSON JEFFERY JOHN
IPC: A01D17/00
Filed: 1999-02-18
Abstract: A method of planting tubers (26 figure 4)including filling or part-filling elongate tubes 6 with soil lifted from a planting area. Seed tubers (26), preferably of mini-tuber size, are inserted into the soil-filled tubes after placing the tubes 6 onto the planting area. Also claimed is a method of harvesting tubers 35 by lifting the tubing 6 from the planting area, removing the haulm 33 from the tuber plants and gaining access to the tuber crop growing within the tubing 6 by cutting/splitting away the tubing 6. The tuber crop is separated from the soil and collected. Machinery for performing the above planting and harvesting methods is also claimed. The soil may be destoned and/or sterilised before inserting into tubes 6. The tubes 6 may be of plastics material, permeable to nitrogen and oxygen but substantially non-water permeable. A shot of water and/or fertiliser may be inserted into the tubes 6 at the planting stage.
Patent GB-2351097-A (GB)
Title: Telescopic support having inner and outer members with apertures of different spacing
Inventor: DURRANT CHRISTOPHER JAMES
IPC: E21D15/14
Filed: 1999-05-26
Abstract: A telescopic support, for supporting structures such as scaffolding, trench boxes, etc., includes an inner member (2) and an outer member (4), in the form of a sleeve, which is slidable over the inner member. Both the inner and outer members are provided with at least two spaced apertures (22, 24), the spacing between the apertures (22) on the inner member differing from the spacing between the apertures (24) on the outer member, thus allowing the length of the support to be finely adjusted. The inner and outer members are preferably straight elongate hollow members and the support is preferably in the form of a strut or prop. A method of producing such a telescopic support and a method of supporting a structure using the telescopic support are also described.
Patent GB-2342403-A (GB)
Title: Cleansing device
Inventor: EBEDE CHRISTIAN BENN
IPC: B65D83/16
Filed: 1999-07-29
Abstract: A cleansing device comprises a brush 21 attached to a body in which an aerosol container 13 of cleaning fluid is housed. A spring loaded nozzle 15 on the aerosol container 13 seats on an anvil 16 at one end 18 of the body, and a duct 17, which may be flexible, provides a passageway for dispensed fluid to flow from the anvil 16 to the bristles of the brush 21. Dispensing of cleaning fluid is achieved by actuating a trigger 23 located next to a handle 22 at the other end of the body, which moves the aerosol container 13 towards the anvil 16, depressing the nozzle 15. The trigger 23 may be governed by a lock or tamper proof device, or may include a timing or interrupting device to limit the amount of fluid that may be dispensed over a period of time.
Patent GB-2354274-A (GB)
Title: Refilling and resurfacing a highway excavation
Inventor: MCHALE JOHN MATTHEW
IPC: E01C23/06
Filed: 1999-09-17
Abstract: A method of re-filling and re-surfacing a highway excavation has the step of producing a back-filling composition by mixing the earth previously excavated from the highway excavation with a binding agent and optionally, adding water to obtain the setting consistency required. The further step of back-filling the excavation by locating a pre-determined amount of the mixture from step (a) in the excavation and then re-surfacing the highway excavation is then carried out. The binder may be cement or lime and the resurfing material is a bitumen based material. The mixing may take place in the excavation. All the apparatus may be positioned on a vehicle which also has a clam shell bucket digger 12 for moving excavated material to and from the mixer 14.
Patent GB-2355163-A (GB)
Title: A modem having embedded network transmission protocols
Inventor: ZOU ZHENG-RONG
IPC: H04M11/06
Filed: 1999-10-05
Abstract: A fax/voice high-speed 3-way data transmission modem having embedded network transmission protocols comprises an inbuilt Internet transmission protocol communication module. The module comprises various Internet protocols (such as PPP, TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP etc) and various Internet application services that support those protocols. The module can connect to computers through an internal line connection or parallel/serial port. The network functions of network connections and desired operations are set out in advance under the support of corresponding BIOS drivers so that the modem is capable of connecting to the Internet automatically and at a set time and without switch-on of a host computer, automatically browsing web sites, receiving and sending emails and faxes and automatically executing network remote monitoring. A wake-up signal can be sent to a host computer, display and peripheral to execute network functions established in advance.
Patent GB-2344980-A (GB)
Title: Digital matched filter correlates received spread spectrum signals to save power.
Inventor: HASHIMOTO SATORU
IPC: H04B1/707
Filed: 1999-10-27
Abstract: A spread code shift controller 60 circulates spread codes, eg CDMA stored in coefficient registers 21-24 and outputs them to a multiplier 30. A flag shift controller 60b circulates one flag data on flag registers 51-54. As a result, flag data is sequentially input to receiving registers 11-14 and a spread spectrum signal is stored for each data in the receiving registers. The spread spectrum signal stored in the receiving registers is input to corresponding stages 31-34 of multipliers 30 and multiplied by the corresponding spread codes and the results of multiplication are added together in an adder unit 40 to derive a correlation value. This is intended to reduce power consumption.
Patent GB-2340855-A (GB)
Title: Floor to ceiling tension support pole with locking mechanism
Inventor: MAHARG JAMES C
IPC: A47B96/14
Filed: 1998-04-20
Abstract: A tension pole comprising an outer, lower pole piece (12) and an inner, upper pole piece (14). The bottom of the lower pole piece (12) and the top of the upper pole piece (14) are provided with rubber feet (58, 56). The pole pieces (12, 14) are telescopable to adjust the length of the tension pole. A locking mechanism (10) is provided which further telescopes one piece relative to the other to lock the tension pole between the floor and ceiling with the rubber feet (56, 58) absorbing at least a part of the telescoping movement due to the locking action. Locking is done by turning a handle (24). Also, the locking/telescoping action simultaneously frictionally engages the pole pieces (12, 14) together to further secure the device.