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Patent GB-954080-A (GB)
Abstract: 954,080. Time switches. J. GISIGER, and H. BENN. June 5, 1961 [Nov. 11, 1960; Dec. 3, 1960], No. 20125/61. Heading H2B. [Also in Division G3] A combined timepiece and time switch, Figs. 1 and 2, comprises a timepiece 4 located in an insulating support 1 to which is attached a metal ring 12 which engages a groove in a rotatable contact carrier 8 which carries a contact member 13, one end of which has inclined lugs 14 and the other end of which is connected to a brush which abuts the ring 12. The hour hand 6 constitutes a switch contact and co-operates with the lugs 14 of the contact 13 to close the switch at the preset time. A bezel ring 19 carrying the glass 20 is a snap fit on the support 1 to which is attached a back 24. The timepiece dial markings may be on the member 8 or on the inside or outside of the glass 20. In another example the bezel ring is mounted on the contact carrier and three metallic rings each having one or more contact members are provided. Each ring may be independently settable. In another example, Fig. 7, the switch comprises a plate 58 and the end 57 of a leaf-spring 56 which retains a radially disposed finger 51 in the path of an extension 50 of the hour hand 49. The plate 58 is connected by a brush 59 to a cylindrical slip-ring 60. The minute hand of the timepiece may also cooperate with a contact or contacts.
Patent GB-2294629-A (GB)
Title: Anti-G-Footwear
Inventor: APLIN JUDY ESTHER
IPC: A43B5/00
Filed: 1994-08-18
Abstract: An aircraft anti-g system includes a boot (10) having an inflatable lining (13) adjacent an inner surface of an upper (12) and covering a substantial area of a wearer's upper foot and ankle, the lining having means (14, 15) for connecting the lining to a pressurisation supply. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2307388-A (GB)
Title: Seed planter
Inventor: PORTER NICHOLAS FREDRICK STANL
IPC: A01C5/02
Filed: 1996-02-07
Abstract: A seed planter which can be used to fit into a seed tray which has been previously filled with a seed growing material. There is a platform 1 with a handle 2 on one side and a set of proportionally spaced pegs 3 on the other. The platform 1 is pressed down into the growing material to form a set of uniform indentations, all of equal depth and spacing.
Patent GB-2310488-A (GB)
Title: Heat exchange conduit
Inventor: GRIMSLEY ALLAN
IPC: F24D3/14
Filed: 1996-02-20
Abstract: The conduit contains two (or more) passages for conveying a heat-carrying fluid in a countercurrent flow pattern e.g. in a sub-floor heating system. An integral extrusion comprises two parallel tubes 1 and 2 joined by a short web 3. The tubes have raised platforms 4 with co-planar longitudinally extending flats 5 to provide maximum heat transfer to the surface of the floor. One of the tubes is provided with a distinguishing rib 6 to allow the respective tubes to be identified visually and by touch alone.
Patent GB-2314407-A (GB)
Title: Vacuum-walled cooking vessel
Inventor: HSIAO CARY
IPC: A47J27/00
Filed: 1996-06-19
Abstract: A vacuum-walled stew vessel including a cover 37, a bottom surface 34, an outer wall 32, an inner wall 31 and a vacuum space 33 therebetween is able to be put on a stove and heated up directly without worrying about wall deformation. To further enhance the heat retaining effect of the vessel, the cover of the vessel maybe manufactured to have an outer layer 371, an inner layer 372 and a vacuum space 373 therebetween.
Patent GB-2315221-A (GB)
Title: Absorbent Articles
Inventor: SHIPLEY ROGER ARTHUR
IPC: A61F13/15
Filed: 1996-07-12
Abstract: A core comprising water absorbent material and suitable for use in an absorbent article, said core having a hard upper surface formed by either spraying water or a binder e.g. latex onto one side of the core and thereafter treating the core e.g. by calendering and / or heating. The hard surface is believed to retard the speed at which fluid penetrates the core and thus allows it to spread more evenly over the surface thereby reducing the risk of localised pooling.
Patent GB-2306680-A (GB)
Title: RF power measurement
Inventor: HUMPHERYS MELVIN D
IPC: H04B17/00
Filed: 1996-08-20
Abstract: An economical, wide range and accurate power measurement technique switches an RF detector 7 between an applied RF IN2 to be measured and a COMPARISON RF IN3, to thus develop a difference signal. The difference signal is filtered 9, amplified by a logarithmic amplifier 10, and then converted into a DC error signal by a synchronous detector 11 operating in step with the switching of the RF detector. The DC error signal is applied to an integrator 12 whose output is a loop control signal. Assuming a square law detector, the square of the loop control signal is linearly proportional to the applied RF IN once a servo loop is nulled by making COMPARISON RF IN equal to RF IN. The desired power measurement is performed by digitizing 19 the loop control signal and performing the appropriate arithmetic operations thereon. The loop control signal is also applied to an analog multiplier 14, where it combines with an internal RF reference signal 15 to produce, at the output of an attenuator following the multiplier, the COMPARISON RF IN signal. The entire loop servos to minimize the difference between the applied RF IN and the COMPARISON RF IN signal. When RF IN gets small an increase in attenuation allows the multiplier to continue to operate within an optimum dynamic range by reducing the COMPARISON RF IN signal to the same general level as RF IN.
Patent GB-2306068-A (GB)
Title: LAN equaliser
Inventor: TAYLOR CRAIG MAURICE
IPC: H04B3/14
Filed: 1996-09-19
Abstract: An equaliser circuit arrangement for compensating for the frequency-dependent characteristics of a transmission line such as an untwisted pair, in which signals from the transmission line are applied to a summing node by way of a non frequency-selective fixed gain path 1 and a frequency-selective variable gain path including a filter network 2 and a first variable gain amplifier 3. The signals at the summing node may be further amplified by a second variable gain amplifier using gain control signals derived for the first amplifier.
Patent GB-2307555-A (GB)
Title: Early recognition of aquaplaning using resonance behaviour of tyres
Inventor: AMMON DIETER
IPC: B60T17/22
Filed: 1996-11-19
Abstract: In a method for the early recognition of the floating of a vehicle tyre on a wet road, a speed sensor 9 records the rotational speed of the wheel carrying the tyre and the frequency spectrum of the wheel speed signal 10 is evaluated at stage 12. In the frequency range of over 20 Hz, the natural-resonance behaviour of the rotational tyre vibrations is evaluated continuously at stage 13, and a floating of the tyre is inferred from a detuning of the natural rotational frequency. An aquaplaning factor a gives a measure of aquaplaning, and its value can be used to control regulatory action or to provide a warning indication to the driver. The evaluation of the tyre vibrations can be carried out by means of model-assisted identification of the fundamental natural vibrations of the tyre, where various parameter coefficients are continuously updated during normal driving (a=0). Pressure monitoring can also be performed by comparing the model-related tyre parameters determined during normal driving with those parameters at a reference pressure.
Patent GB-2325025-A (GB)
Title: Jet engine electronic fuel control system using variable delivery pump
Inventor: VEILLEUX JR LEO J
IPC: F02C9/30
Filed: 1997-05-24
Abstract: In an electronic control for a variable delivery, positive displacement fuel pump 104 a flow sensor 132 provides a signal, indicative of actual fuel flow to the engine, to an electronic engine control 140, which compares actual fuel flow with desired fuel flow, and upon any difference therebetween commands an electrohydraulic servo valve 156 to position a pump control actuator 108. Fuel flow upstream of the flow sensor is bypassed in a line 196 to another section of the electrohydraulic servo valve. The electronic engine control commands a small amount of fuel to be bypassed during normal operating conditions but upon the occurrence of a transient condition, it causes more or less fuel to be bypassed back to the pump inlet.
Patent GB-2326261-A (GB)
Title: Coin dispenser
Inventor: FOSTER JOHN STEVENSON
IPC: G07D9/00
Filed: 1997-06-10
Abstract: A coin dispenser for use in counting coins comprises a body 10 having a plurality of elongate axially extending channels 20 of varying lengths and widths and discs 11,12 mounted at each end of the body 10 for selectively closing and opening an end of the respective channels. The discs 11,12 may be rotatably mounted and have a cut out (13) to allow the dispenser to be loaded or emptied. The container may also be loaded by inserting coins sideways into channels 20. In use, each channel 20 holds a predetermined number of coins of a certain value and may be disposed at opposite ends of the container. Thus, once a channel 20 is full, the total value of the coins therein will be known. The known quantity of coins may be emptied into a bag for banking via nozzle 16.
Patent GB-2316726-A (GB)
Title: Electronic brake system
Inventor: MAISCH WOLFGANG
IPC: B60T8/32
Filed: 1997-07-17
Abstract: Electronic brake system for a vehicle, comprises wheel pair units A, B for adjusting the braking force at the vehicle wheels by means of electric, hydraulic, or pneumatic actuators 20-26, a pedal unit 10 which determines required brake force/moment, a processing unit 18, communications systems K 1 , K 2 which connect the units, and two mutually independent electrical systems E 1 , E 2 for supplying power to the units, wherein units A, B are each connected to a respective one of the electrical systems. The unit 10 receives inputs b 1 -b 3 re pedal displacement, force, and pressure, unit 18 receives inputs 72-74 re steering angle, transverse acceleration, yawing speed, and axle loads, and units A, B receive inputs re wheel speed n 1 -n 4 , and actual brake force/moment F 1i -F 4i . Systems K 1 , K 2 transmit required brake force/moment for each axle F v , F H and each wheel F 1 -F 4 , and fault signals d A , d B , d V . Unit 18 may be programmed for anti-lock, anti-spin, and hill hold control. There may be only one communications system, and unit 18 may be contained in unit 10 or A.
Patent GB-2327365-A (GB)
Title: Chess games
Inventor: DUNN JOHN MARTIN
IPC: A63F3/02
Filed: 1997-07-23
Abstract: A chess type game is plays on a 14 by 14 board either with four conventional sets of chess pieces or with two augmented sets of chess pieces.
Patent GB-2316461-A (GB)
Title: Bending restrictor
Inventor: NOERHOLMEN JOHN IVIND
IPC: F16L1/20
Filed: 1997-08-13
Abstract: The bending diameter and bending strain exerted on elongated articles (1) such as cables, pipes, umbilicals and other elongated articles when installating such articles from a cable ship on a sea bed is restricted by a number of wire elements which are arranged for tensioning a series annular elements (14,15,16) into contact with each other. The wire elements are equally distributed in or on the annular elements to ensure uniform compression of the these elements, and pass through holes in interlocking elements (20) between the elements (14,15,16). Some of the elements (14) have V-grooves (18) defining the bend radius.
Patent GB-2330951-A (GB)
Title: Tubular antenna with a tapering conductive serpentine element
Inventor: DAVIDSON BRIAN JAMES
IPC: H01Q13/08
Filed: 1997-11-04
Abstract: An antenna 9 comprises a tapering conductive serpentine element 1 which is formed into a tubular shape around a longitudinal direction of the tapering configuration. The said element 1 may be formed on an insulating substrate 5 by a printing process. The narrow part of the element 4 may operate as a high current density feed point. The tubular antenna 9 may be hollow or may include a core of material with a dielectric constant which is high at the wide part of the tapered element and lower at the narrow part of said element. The said element may be of a meander, a saw-tooth or castellated configuration. The cross-section of the tubular antenna may, for example, be circular, ovoid, rectangular or square. The antenna 9 may include a bayonet connection 8 with detents 7. The antenna may be employed in portable radio devices.
Patent GB-2318849-A (GB)
Title: Device for driving a torque transmission system
Inventor: FISCHER ROBERT
IPC: F16D48/02
Filed: 1997-04-22
Abstract: A control unit controls an inching and starting process for driving a torque transmission system in a motor vehicle drive-line. The transition from an inching process to a starting process occurs when the load lever is actuated such that the driven coupling moment changes from a predetermined inching function to a predetermined starting function when the coupling moment determined by the starting function is at least equal to the coupling moment determined by the inching function, or has reached a predetermined value.
Patent GB-2319165-A (GB)
Title: Camouflage covering
Inventor: COX PHILIP R
IPC: F41H3/02
Filed: 1997-05-29
Abstract: A camouflage covering (56) having a porous underlayer (40) such as a knit mesh of 90 % open area, and a plurality of dangling elements each having a base portion (69) that is joined to and extends essentially transversely out from the porous underlayer (40). The dangling elements are arranged so as to essentially cover the porous underlayer (40) so as to present a covering that has depth and provides a loft effect. The dangling elements are preferably strips (62) having a low emissivity (.02-.50) inner layer and an external coating, which is thermally transparent but supports pigments that provide a visual and near infrared radiation signature suppression effect.
Patent GB-2319866-A (GB)
Title: Data processor has descriptive format setting program
Inventor: MASE ATSUSHI
IPC: G06F17/40
Filed: 1996-10-28
Abstract: An appliance-controlling apparatus 1 includes, in a memory 12, a control program which contains a descriptive format setting program 12c, and a converting/writing program 12d. The operator uses the keyboard 3, and a mouse, interactively with display on CRT 2 to set a desired descriptive format of a descriptive file 133 in an auxiliary storage unit 13. The descriptive file has a database format which describes data written into the appliance 4, and the descriptive format of the descriptive file is stored in a setting data file 134. The data acquired from the appliance are stored in a storage file (131 Figure 1) of which the format is set by use of a storage format setting unit.
Patent GB-2318474-A (GB)
Title: Video processing for storage or transmission
Inventor: STREATER STEPHEN BERNARD
IPC: H04N7/36
Filed: 1996-08-23
Abstract: A method of processing digital video information in real time involves reading-in digital data representing pixels of successive video frames, e.g. from a digitiser. The pixel frame data is initially stored and subjected to an idealization treatment to choose and pre-select representative values for pixel characteristics which are then adopted in the further processing. The idealized frame data can then be subjected to compression by deriving further data representing blocks of pixels (mini-blocks) and blocks of mini-blocks (super-blocks) and by generating code words to describe the changes in the pixel data of successive frames. The compressed data is finally stored and/or transmitted.
Patent GB-2329089-A (GB)
Title: Optical transmission system with cross-phase modulation compensation
Inventor: GARTHE DIETMAR
IPC: H04B10/58
Filed: 1998-02-27
Abstract: In a wavelength division multiplex system carrying amplitude modulated signals which exhibit significant cross-phase modulation, each of the individual channels is pre-chirped at the transmitter 10 with replicas 21 of the amplitude modulation applied to each of the other channels, before being multiplexed 13. That is, in addition to being amplitude modulated with data, each channel is also phase modulated with signals derived from the amplitude modulations applied to the other channels. Additionally, individual channels may be phase modulated with signals derived from their own amplitude modulation signal in order to reduce distortion due to self-phase modulation.
Patent GB-2322807-A (GB)
Title: Rebound board
Inventor: ROGERS DAVID
IPC: A63B69/00
Filed: 1998-03-06
Abstract: A rebound board apparatus a board 2 mounted on a support frame 4, one side of the board having a generally flat surface 22 which, when the apparatus is in an operable position, serves as a rebound surface against which the object to be rebounded can be propelled. The angle of the rebound surface 22 relative to the support frame 4 is preferably adjustable and lockable. The pivoting of the board 2 may be done using rams. It is particularly preferred that the apparatus includes a catch-net (6), to catch off-target objects which are propelled towards the rebound board 2, and a box or tray 46 in which objects caught in the net (6) can collect. A particular use envisaged for the proposed rebound board apparatus is as a tennis practice aid.
Patent GB-2325681-A (GB)
Title: Movable formation-engaging drill bit members
Inventor: GRIFFIN NIGEL DENNIS
IPC: E21B10/62
Filed: 1998-04-22
Abstract: In a rotary drag-type drill bit for drilling subsurface formations, at least one formation-engaging member is movably mounted on the bit body so as to be movable in and out, relative to fixed cutting elements, in response to engagement with the formation being drilled. In one arrangement the formation-engaging member 48 is generally pear-shaped and is bonded within a body of rubber 49 within a tubular sleeve 50 screwed into a threaded socket in the bit body 51. The body of rubber 49, confined within the sleeve 50, offers comparatively solid resistance to impact at right angles to the surface of the bit body. However, when subjected to a force having a sideways component the member 48 tilts against the resilience of the rubber 49, to reduce the extent to which the member projects above the surface of the bit body. The member 48 thus protects an associated cutting element against impact but yields to allow the cutting element to engage the surface of the formation being drilled. Other embodiments of resiliently mounted formation-engaging members, arms and cutters are also disclosed.
Patent GB-2327490-A (GB)
Title: Building blocks
Inventor: SHUTE JOHN SIDNEY
IPC: E04F17/02
Filed: 1998-06-02
Abstract: A flue block is generally rectangular and has a passage therethrough for flue gases, and, the lower face is rebated to form a shoulder in the lower face. In making a wall with a flue therein these blocks are used so as to overlap with the standard blocks which are arranged in relatively staggered arrangement with mortar beds therebetween to make up the wall. The rebated portion of each flue block is filled up to the shoulder with mortar 24X of each bed in that such mortar is placed on top of the wall block which each flue block is to overlap. This enables better and more secure placement of the flue blocks which are, apart from the rebate, of a height equal to the height of a wall block plus the thickness of one bed of mortar.  The extent of the rebating of the flue blocks varies depending upon the position the flue block is to take in the flue.
Patent GB-2340871-A (GB)
Title: Band tightening device
Inventor: CHOU AN-CHUAN
IPC: B60P7/08
Filed: 1998-08-27
Abstract: A device for tightening a band 17 comprises two half-shafts 3 around which the band is looped, rotatably mounted on a body 11. Handle 12 is pulled upwards to tighten the band as plate 2 engages ratchet wheels 15. The latter are also engaged a spring-urged plate 14 to prevent slackening. When the band is sufficiently tight the handle is held in a downwards disposition by hooks 21 of plate 2 engaging the plate 4.
Patent GB-2344810-A (GB)
Title: Carrying cases for items such as sound and/or light mixing consoles
Inventor: ROSS PETER MALCOLM
IPC: B65D81/07
Filed: 1998-12-17
Abstract: An item such as a sound and/or light mixing console 1 is supported within a carrying case 2 by means of springs 9 which are such as to substantially counterbalance the weight of the console when the case is carried. The springs 9, preferably pairs of helical compression springs, may be seated in bores in wooden blocks 8 and act against spreader plates 10. A front edge of the console 1 is protected by foam, preferably a layer of low density foam sandwiched between layers of high density foam, and sides of the console are also protected by cushioning foam, preferably high density polyethylene foam. The case 2 has a lid 3 lined with plastics foam and provided with a handle and trolley wheels 12.
Patent GB-2333440-A (GB)
Title: Drain for deep fat fryer
Inventor: DE LONGHI GIUSEPPE
IPC: A47J37/12
Filed: 1999-01-13
Abstract: There is described apparatus 4 for frying food products of the type which has a casing including a basin 3 for holding oil for frying the food product. The apparatus of the invention is characterised in that it includes draining means 5 for draining said oil from said basin and collecting means 6 for collecting said oil drained from said basin. A container 8 for collecting oil is held in a pull out support 9 and a flexible tube 30 is used to direct the oil into the container.
Patent GB-2337366-A (GB)
Title: Transmitting power underwater using coiled tubing
Inventor: MCHUGH MARCUS D
IPC: H02G3/04
Filed: 1999-03-24
Abstract: A method for transmitting power in a submarine environment, such as between an offshore platform or installation 16 and a sister platform or submerged equipment 14 comprises preassembling a multi-conductor cable 58 in a section of coiled tubing 56. The electrical cable and coiled tubing may be provided with interface hardware 66 at either end to seal the interior of the coiled tubing and to permit termination of the coiled tubing and cable. The coiled tubing and cable assembly may be wound on a reel for transport and deployment. During deployment the coiled tubing 56 and cable 58 are extended between a source of electrical power and a power application location. The coiled tubing and cable are then terminated at both locations. A free region 92 between the cable 58 and the interior surface of the coiled tubing 56 may be purged to eliminate water, and filled with a fluid 98 to prevent the infiltration of water, provide additional corrosion resistance, and support the cable. A corrosion-resistant layer 78 may be formed on the coiled tubing to prevent or inhibit corrosion due to the marine environment. An electrical power transmission assembly is also provided.
Patent GB-2340726-A (GB)
Title: Layered cheese product with easily removable portions
Inventor: KAISER ANNO
IPC: A23C19/084
Filed: 1999-04-23
Abstract: A cheese product 1 comprises a number of stacked cheese layers 2 with at least one partition 3 extending from the top layer towards the bottom layer. Preferably the cheese layers 2 have a rectangular cross section and comprise process cheese with the composition of 70-85% cheese, 2-4% butter, 2-6% labcasein, 2-4% citrate and the balance of water. A process for manufacturing the cheese product 1 comprises the steps of admixing and melting the ingredients, forming a layer 2 from the melt, cooling the layer 2, stacking two or more layers 2 and providing the one or more partitions 3, in any order. The partition(s), which is preferably a cut, may be perpendicular to the cheese layer plane or at an angle (Fig.2). The presence and/or formation of moisture is preferably avoided in the cooling step and a colorant, such as carotin, may be non-uniformly dispersed in the cheese just before or during the cooling step. The cheese product 1 can be used in, or as decoration for, a snack product.