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Patent GB-2296883-A (GB)
Title: Strip casting
Inventor: LEADBEATTER DARREN JOHN
IPC: B22D11/06
Filed: 1995-10-24
Abstract: A molten metal casting pool is confined between a pair of casting rolls 12 by side closure plates 18 applied to the ends of the rolls 12 by thrusters 21. Side closure plates 18 are mounted in holders 25 which are pivotally connected to thrusters 21 by pivot pins 26 so that the side plates 18 can tilt about the pivot connections. Pivot pins 26 are located at such height above the nip between rolls 12 that effect of outward pressure on plates 18 by molten metal of the casting pool is such as to rotationally bias the plates 18 about the pivots in such directions that their bottom ends are biased inwardly to produce increased scaling pressure at bottom of casting pool.
Patent GB-2310621-A (GB)
Title: A process of making a metal accessory mounting box
Inventor: GRANT STEPHEN THOMAS
IPC: H02B1/46
Filed: 1996-02-29
Abstract: A process of making an electrical accessory mounting box (1) comprising forming a blank sheet of metal into an open box (1) comprising a base (10) and at least one upstanding wall (13) having an outer edge (110), inserting a mandrel (402) into the box so that a surface of the mandrel is spaced from and within the outer edge, and applying a force against a face adjacent the outer edge to deform the wall so as to produce a ledge (100) in the deformed wall of the outer edge.
Patent GB-2311307-A (GB)
Title: Overflow fitting for a syphon-discharge W.C. cistern
Inventor: WILLSON MICHAEL ANTHONY
IPC: E03D1/00
Filed: 1996-03-23
Abstract: An internal overflow system for a syphon-discharge W.C. cistern comprises a pipe 4 attached to or pre moulded (not shown) to the syphon to toilet outlet pipe 5 to allow the excessive water to escape through the hole 6 in the syphon to toilet cutlet pipe 5 down to the toilet (not shown).
Patent GB-2300828-A (GB)
Title: Valve for spray head
Inventor: LANCASTER SIMON SPEAR
IPC: B05B1/18
Filed: 1996-04-30
Abstract: A spray head assembly includes a motion transmitter (71) in a spray-head compartment coupled between an actuator shaft and a relatively-rigid valve shaft (100') for transmission of motion from the actuator shaft into axial motion of the valve shaft to thereby move a relatively-resilient poppet member (76'), against liquid flow, away from a valve seat surface (80) when the actuator shaft is moved. The valve shaft which is located in a valve-seat passageway (78) downstream of the poppet member, includes a relatively rigid separate flange (102) thereon extending radially outwardly from the valve shaft. The flange has a bearing face (116) for impinging on a sealing face (114) of the poppet member directed substantially toward the valve seat. The flange fits in a raised ring seal (77') on the sealing face and extends into the valve-seat passageway when the poppet member is seated to be closed. The flange has a tapered outer/upper edge (112).
Patent GB-2313994-A (GB)
Title: Radiant electric heater
Inventor: MCWILLIAMS KEVIN RONALD
IPC: H05B3/44
Filed: 1996-06-06
Abstract: A radiant electric heater comprises an elongate electrical resistance heating element (4) supported in a heat-withstanding tube (1). A layer (2) of thermal and electrical insulation material in the tube (1) has a surface (3) to which the heating element (4) is secured along its length and particularly such that the heating element does not contact the tube (1). Radiant energy is transmitted in a preferential direction from the heater.
Patent GB-2315503-A (GB)
Title: Producing straight beam
Inventor: WELLER DAVID THOMAS
IPC: E04C3/02
Filed: 1996-07-25
Abstract: A method of producing a strong lightweight beam using a master jig device 13 , wherein a plurality of blocks 11 each with a passage 17 are constrained nominally in axial alignment. An undersized rod 15 is posted lengthwise through the passages 17 and securing means, e. g. epoxy, is introduced into the clearance space between rod 15 and blocks 11, setting to secure them against relative movement. Then a body of sheet material 25 is secured to at least part of the peripheries of blocks 11; it may have a straight edge 27a and serve for example as a straight edge device in e. g. co-ordinate plotting apparatus.
Patent GB-2306958-A (GB)
Title: Oximesulfonic acid ester photoinitiators
Inventor: DIETLIKER KURT
IPC: C09D11/101
Filed: 1996-10-18
Abstract: The invention relates to the use of oximesulfonic acid esters of formula I m is 0 or 1 and x is 1 or 2; R1 is, for example, substituted phenyl, R2 has, for example, one of the meanings of R1 or is unsubstituted phenyl, C1-C6alkanoyl, unsubstituted or substituted benzoyl, C2-C6alkoxycarbonyl or phenoxycarbonyl; or R1 and R2, if necessary together with the CO group, form a ring, R3, when x is 1, is, for example, C1-C18alkyl, phenyl or phenanthryl, the radicals phenyl and phenanthryl being unsubstituted or substituted, or R3, when x is 2, is, for example, C2-C12alkylene, phenylene or oxydiphenylene, the radicals phenylene and oxydiphenylene being unsubstituted or substituted, as latent acid donors, especially at wavelengths over 390 nm, and to the use of the compounds in the production of photoresists.
Patent GB-2303832-A (GB)
Title: Ship
Inventor: ISHII NORIO
IPC: B63H5/16
Filed: 1995-04-19
Abstract: The leading edge of a ring-like nozzle (3) provided forwardly of a propeller (2) of a ship (1) comprises an upper leading edge (41) and a lower leading edge (42), and the upper leading edge (41) is gradually closer to the propeller side toward a lower portion thereof. The inclination angles of the nozzle upper leading edge (41) and lower leading (42) change at a joint portion (5) where the upper leading edge (41) and lower leading edge (42) are joined together and the joint portion (5) is located in the vicinity of a horizontal plane containing the axis of a propeller shaft.
Patent GB-2309052-A (GB)
Title: Joining exhaust pipes of i.c. engines in vehicles
Inventor: COPPOCK LAWRENCE MACDONALD
IPC: F02B27/04
Filed: 1997-01-07
Abstract: Exhaust pipes 22,24 from respective banks of a transversely mounted vee-type engine are joined together by a joint in which one of the pipes, 22, is straight and forms an inner pipe while a connector 28 turns the other pipe through 180 degrees and leads it into a common connector tube 26 which surrounds the inner pipe. The effective lengths L1,L2 of the respective pipes 22,24 are equal. The area D3 is twice D1 which is equal to D2. The free end of the inner pipe may be mitred (fig.7) or perforated (fig.8) or extend inside a flexible portion (18) of the outer pipe (26d) (fig.9). Portions of the pipes (22f, 24f, 26f, figs. 11,12) may be double-walled to provide thermal insulation. The arrangements of figs. 11 and 12 are for transversely mounted in-line engines.
Patent GB-2316256-A (GB)
Title: Three-dimensional display station
Inventor: IWATA SATOSHI
IPC: G02B30/27
Filed: 1997-01-08
Abstract: A parallax image generator 10 establishes a plurality of projected regions around a display and generates a plurality of parallax images having different parallaxes due to being seen from respective points of view. In addition, pixels of the plurality of parallax images occupying the same position are gathered together in a pixel block, and are mapped to rendering memory 32 corresponding to the display. A parallax image display unit 12 displays mapped images in the rendering memory 32, projects the light from a pixel toward the projected region corresponding to each parallax image, and makes a 3-D image observed by positioning the eyes of an observer in adjacent projected regions. The display panel 42 may be horizontal.
Patent GB-2322024-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for generating bias voltages for liquid crystal display
Inventor: HSU JERRY
IPC: G09G3/36
Filed: 1997-02-05
Abstract: An apparatus and method for generating bias voltages for an LCD driver. A voltage divider including serially connected resistors of a first resistance is arranged to form a DC current path having nodes. The voltage of each node serves as a bias voltage to the LCD driver for actuating the LCD driver to generate LCD driving signals. A signal generator is used to generate a switching signal in synchronism with the LCD driving signals. A switching circuit including switches is arranged so that when the switches are closed, the resistance between two adjacent nodes has a small value, so as to provide large driving currents to the LCD driver, and when the switches are open, the resistance has a large value, so as to reduce the amount of leakage current through the DC current path.
Patent GB-2306387-A (GB)
Title: Compaction apparatus
Inventor: HAMILTON ROBIN
IPC: B30B11/24
Filed: 1993-09-23
Abstract: Compaction apparatus comprised a screw conveyor 36 for conveying waste material through a passage and compacting it therein, successive pitches of the screw conveyor defining, with the passage walls 56, a volume which decreases along at least part of the length of the screw conveyor whereby to cause compaction and is further characterised by having a resisting means eg prominences or ribs 22 associated with the passage wall along at least the said part of the screw conveyor length, the resisting means, in use, resisting or preventing conveyed material from rotating with the conveyor. The thickness of the flight subjected to the greatest force in use may be greater than the thickness of the other parts of the flight of the conveyor.
Patent GB-2312447-A (GB)
Title: Elastic nonwoven fabric
Inventor: SUZUKI MIGAKU
IPC: D04H1/55
Filed: 1997-03-14
Abstract: A uniaxially nonwoven fabric comprises substantially coaxial sheath-core filaments with a polyester core and a polyolefin sheath, the filaments being heat-bonded together and the bonded web being subjected to heat drawing at a ratio of 10-80% in the machine direction while being extended in the cross direction and being subsequently heat-set at a lower temperature than the melting point of the sheath so as to impart elasticity. The resulting fabric has a breaking elongation of at least 150% in the cross direction, a ratio of breaking elongations in the cross and machine directions of at least 5 and an elastic recovery in the cross direction of at least 60% and 50% when extended 50% and 100% respectively. The fabric may be laminated to elastic film.
Patent GB-2323568-A (GB)
Title: Reducing airbag forward speed
Inventor: ANDERSSON STURE
IPC: B60R21/26
Filed: 1997-03-24
Abstract: A gas reservoir 6 is placed between a gas generator and a manifold supplying an airbag 17. The reservoir and the manifold are connected by two flow passages, one of relatively large area, which is initially sealed 10', and another of relatively small area. In operation, the generated gas flows into the reservoir and through the small passage to begin the relatively slow inflation of the airbag and opening of the cover doors. More gas is generated than can pass through the small passage and so the pressure in the reservoir rises until a predetermined pressure is reached, when the sealing disc 10' ruptures, permitting full inflation of the airbag. Both passages may initially be sealed and the reservoir lightly pressurised with argon gas to reduce the temperature of the generated gas.
Patent GB-2311858-A (GB)
Title: Laser ultrasonic imaging uses synthetic aperture focusing technique
Inventor: LORRAINE PETER WILLIAM
IPC: G01N29/24
Filed: 1997-03-27
Abstract: A source laser 12 scans the surface of an object 14, such as an engineering material, and reflected ultrasonic waves are detected by a detector laser 16 and detector 18 such as a sensitive interferomic detector. The detected signals are captured 20, converted to digital signals 22 and stored in memory 24. The stored signals are processed in processor 26, using a synthetic aperture focusing technique (SAFT) which coherently sums the signals along a hyperbolic curve (32, fig. 2) for all the acoustic reflectors (30, fig. 2) within the object in order to image the object. In addition, low frequency components are filtered from detected laser ultrasound waveform data to further enhance resolution, SNR, and contrast. Geometric knowledge permits the generation of images of objects having a complex and arbitrary shape.
Patent GB-2326395-A (GB)
Title: A container holder for a motor vehicle
Inventor: HISCOX IAN
IPC: B60N3/10
Filed: 1997-06-21
Abstract: A container holder for a cup or can comprises a support member 9 that is both pivotally and slidingly attached to a frame 14 attached to part of the body structure 13 of a vehicle. The support member 9 is moveable from a stored or concealed position to an in use position by a combination of sliding and pivotal movement with respect to the frame.
Patent GB-2312252-A (GB)
Title: Three-way or multi-way valve
Inventor: ZENKER SIEGFRIED
IPC: F15B13/043
Filed: 1996-01-10
Abstract: A three-way or multi-way valve (1) is provided, which is built up of a plurality of two-way valves (11-14), each of which has a high pressure connection and a low pressure connection which are separated from each other by means of a valve seat with which a closure element co-operates, the two-way valves (11-14) being arranged to be operated in pairs or in groups by means of a control pressure fluid by way of a control pressure line (40a, 40b) opening into a pressure chamber (35a, 35b, 36a, 36b), and one of the two-way valves (pump valve 11, 12) of each group being arranged in a connection between a pressure source (6) and a load (2), and another two-way valve (tank valve 13, 14) of the same groups being arranged in a connection between the load (2) and a pressure sink (7). A valve of this type should also be able to be operated reliably when water is used as hydraulic fluid. For this purpose, there is arranged in the control pressure line (40a, 40b) at the tank valve (13, 14) a non-return valve (37a, 37b) which closes towards the tank valve.
Patent GB-2327203-A (GB)
Title: A book with text written on the cover
Inventor: FRANCIS TRACY ELIZABETH
IPC: A63H33/38
Filed: 1997-07-11
Abstract: An illustrated child's book 10 wherein parts of the text 16 relating to the illustrations are written on the book cover 18 so that while the book is open at a page containing an illustration, the illustration may be viewed by the child from one side of the book while the text 16 relating to the illustration is read out by an adult from the other side of the book. The cover may itself have a fold out section or comprise multiple pages if the text relating to the illustrations cannot be fitted on to the cover alone.
Patent GB-2317618-A (GB)
Title: Alkylation process
Inventor: MEHLBERG ROBERT L
IPC: C07C7/09
Filed: 1997-06-05
Abstract: The liquid product of an alkylation process is at least partially vaporised, at least a part of the vapour phase is condensed and optionally, the liquid condensate is flashed. The liquid phase resulting from one or both condensations is recycled to the reactor.
Patent GB-2326237-A (GB)
Title: Ultrasound intrusion detector
Inventor: ZHEVELEV BORIS
IPC: G01S15/52
Filed: 1998-04-01
Abstract: Apparatus which detects the presence of a moving object in a detection area, comprising a transmitter 26 which emits a sequence of bursts of ultrasonic energy into the area and a receiver 26 which receives the signals reflected from within the area. The received signals represent the delay time between emitting the burst and receiving the reflected signal. The received signals are amplified by a time varying gain 30 then digitised by an A/D converter 32 into signals which are sampled then grouped into time bins. The sequences of sampled signals represent the reflected energy from the sequence of bursts. Each sampled signal in the sequence is then compared with a preceding signal to find any variation in the signals over the sequence of bursts, in particular, variations of sampled values at given delay times. The variation between the sequences is compared to determine a difference signal by processing the sequence of differences, this is analysed and if the variation exceeds a set threshold limit this represents the presence of an intrusion and an alarm will be sounded. The ultrasound transmitter and receiver can be separate components or can be a single ultrasound transducer 26.
Patent GB-2331393-A (GB)
Title: Differential reflective sign
Inventor: PERRY ANDREW GRAHAM
IPC: G09F13/16
Filed: 1998-05-11
Abstract: A display sign (1) such as for personal use by a motorist on a motor vehicle, wherein at least one region (3) of the sign, which may be indicia or background, is separated from another (2) by a boundary and the sign has a different reflectivity on either side of the boundary. In particular such a display sign has a capital letter L or P on a differentially reflective background. Also a set of such display signs has a first sign having a reflective white background and a second sign having a non-reflective white background.
Patent GB-2341321-A (GB)
Title: Cell Collecting Device
Inventor: OLIVER JAMES PHILIP
IPC: A61B10/00
Filed: 1998-09-08
Abstract: A cell collecting device particularly adapted for the collection of a cervical smear, which device comprises an elongate body 9 and a cell collecting head attached at one end of the body 9, wherein the cell collecting head is provided with a cell collecting surface 10 formed from a deformable, abrasive material and means are provided for adjusting the contour of the cell collecting surface, such as a pushrod 14 with spring biasing means (17) and retaining slots 18 for a projection 16.
Patent GB-2329597-A (GB)
Title: Arrangement of a retaining grille of an active material in a vessel, and a     vessel so equipped
Inventor: CAM FRANCOIS
IPC: B01J8/00
Filed: 1996-02-14
Abstract: The invention relates to a grille (112) for retaining an active material (116) in a vessel (102) which has a convex bottom delimiting an internal space of the vessel. The grille (112) is vault-shaped and is arranged in said internal space in contact over part of its periphery with the inside wall of the convex bottom of the vessel, the convexity directions of the vault (112) and bottom being opposite. Applications for the supporting grilles of an adsorbent material in an adsorber.
Patent GB-2348803-A (GB)
Title: Convertible toy chair
Inventor: LAN RED
IPC: A63H33/00
Filed: 1999-04-12
Abstract: A toy chair includes a seat member 1 having a seat portion 11 and a backrest portion 12. A pair of extension members 13 extend from the sides of the seat member 1. Left and right connecting members 2 are mounted on the extension members. Each of the connecting members 2 is formed with at least two aligned positioning recesses. Height adjustment mechanisms 3 are mounted on the connecting members 2 so as to be slidable in the longitudinal direction. Each of the mechanisms 3 is provided with a retainer that is operable to engage removably in a selected positioning recesse 25 in the respective connecting member. Front and rear leg units have upper portions connected to the height adjustment mechanisms. The seat member can be removed and used for other purposes, eg as a seat for a swing.
Patent GB-2351000-A (GB)
Title: Animal watering device
Inventor: MORRISS ANTHONY WILLIAM
IPC: A01K7/00
Filed: 1999-04-14
Abstract: A product for a pet, useful for relieving boredom in a young or house-bound animal. There is a sphere 12 mounted for free rotation in a housing adapted to receive and retain a fluid material therein. Typically, the housing comprises a bowl 13 and a circularly apertured collar 11, the sphere 12 being mounted to project from the collar 11. In one embodiment, the collar 11 provides a circular aperture having a diameter less than that of the sphere 12 such that sphere 12 is held within the housing and rotatable in two degrees of freedom. In an alternative embodiment (Figure 3), the sphere 12 is mounted upon an axle held in opposing axle mountings provided on the under-surface of the collar, allowing rotation of the sphere in just one degree of freedom. In another aspect, the present invention also provides the use of the device as described above as a means for dispensing water or other fluids to an animal. Typically, the other fluids include flavoured water.
Patent GB-2335300-A (GB)
Title: Drum shell
Inventor: ARBITER IVOR DAVID
IPC: G10D13/02
Filed: 1997-12-05
Abstract: A drum comprising a drum shell (11) formed with a circumferential channel (17) in its external surface; a shell hoop (15) located in the channel (17); and at least one fixing member (16), in which the shell hoop (15) has a radially outwardly inclined portion (26) arranged to engage a clamp ring (31), and the fixing member (16) includes means for attaching drum fittings, the fixing means (16) being fixed relative to the shell hoop (15).
Patent GB-2340763-A (GB)
Title: Four-piece solid golf ball
Inventor: HAYASHI JUNJI
IPC: A63B37/00
Filed: 1999-08-13
Abstract: In a multi-piece solid golf ball comprising a solid core, an enclosure layer, an intermediate layer, and a cover, the core has a deflection of 2.5-7.0 mm under a load of 100 kg, the cover has a Shore D hardness of 53-65, and the Shore D hardness of the cover is higher than that of the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer and the cover are formed mainly of thermoplastic resins of the same type and either one contains an inorganic filler. The ball has improved resilience, durability and a soft pleasant feel.
Patent GB-2337113-A (GB)
Title: Laboratory in a disk
Inventor: VIRTANEN JORMA
IPC: B01L3/00
Filed: 1998-02-27
Abstract: An apparatus is described that includes an optical disk, adapted to be read by an optical reader, comprising a first sector having substantially self-contained assay means for localizing an analyte suspected of being in a sample to at least one, predetermined location in the first sector and a second sector containing control means for conducting the assay and analyte location information, with respect to one or more analytes suspected of being in a sample, accessible to the reader, wherein the presence or absence of the analyte at said location is determinable by the reader using the control means and the location information. Depending on the nature of the assay, the disk will include fluid storage means, fluid transfer means, such as one or more capillary ducts, valves, batteries, dialyzers, columns, filters, sources of electric fields, wires or other electrical conductive means such as metallic surface deposits and the like.
Patent GB-2348026-A (GB)
Title: Transaction support system
Inventor: MALLON PAUL MICHAEL
IPC: G06Q30/00
Filed: 1999-09-08
Abstract: A centralized database system is for supporting transactions in property. The central database is accessed by system users over a public network such as the Internet. The central database forms a title registry recording the entitlements of the users, who are a defined group, to perform prescribed actions in relation to electronically created records. The electronically created records represent a strictly defined series of rights and obligations in relation to underlying property with one record being created for support of one transaction. The users become entitled by virtue of their designation to prescribed roles by a previously entitled user. Designation of a user to a prescribed role in a record takes place by means of a system user sending an electronic instruction to the database, these electronic instructions being referred to as registry instructions or title registry instructions. The property may be goods traded by shipping.