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Patent GB-2456380-A (GB)
Title: Polycrystalline ultra-hard constructions with brazed multiple support members
Inventor: VORONIN GEORGIY
IPC: E21B10/573
Filed: 2009-01-05
Abstract: A polycrystalline ultra-hard construction includes a polycrystalline ultra-hard material body 22 and two or more support members 24, 28, where the support members 24, 28 are attached to the body by braze material 32. The support members include a backside support member 24 and a side support member 28. The side support member 28 is a one- or two-piece construction, and is positioned circumferentially around and extends axially along the body or both the body and the backside support member such that a working surface of the body remains exposed (Fig 2C to 2F). The support members 24, 28 can be configured to provide a mechanical attachment or interlocking attachment with the body or another support member. The braze materials 32 used in the construction can be different and selected to enhance the attachment and/or reduce the creation of thermal stress within the construction during assembly. The support members 24, 28 can be selected having different thermal expansion characteristics that also operate to reduce the thermal stress during construction assembly.
Patent GB-2453470-A (GB)
Title: System and method of animating a character through a single person performance
Inventor: FORBES JEFF
IPC: G06F3/01
Filed: 2007-07-13
Abstract: A method of animating a computer generated character in real-time through a single person performance is disclosed. The method provides a mobile input device configured to receive a hand puppetry movement as an input from a performer. Further, the method provides a motion capture device that includes a plurality of markers. The motion capture device is configured to be worn on the body of the performer. Motion capture data is received at a computer. The motion capture data is representative of the positions of the plurality of markers. In addition, input device data is received from the mobile input device at the computer. A computer generated animated character is then generated, the body movements of the character being based on the motion capture data, and head and facial movements being based on the input device data received from the mobile input device.
Patent GB-2456113-A (GB)
Title: Speaker configuration
Inventor: THOMPSON AMBROSE CHARLES T
IPC: H04R1/40
Filed: 2007-10-16
Abstract: A method of configuring an array of speaker elements is disclosed. The method computes a sound that pressure level at various points in the venue and is evaluated by various objective functions. The configuration of a candidate array is changed, for example by the orientation or position of the speakers and the sound field is recalculated. The process is then iterated until an acceptable configuration is found. The real physical array of speakers is then configured in that manner. The method also provides a 3D plot of the sound pressure level displayed against freguency and position in the venue.
Patent GB-2462699-A (GB)
Title: Delivering PDCP SDUs to an upper layer within a receiving side entity of an E-UMTS
Inventor: YI SEUNG-JUNE
IPC: H04L1/18
Filed: 2009-06-12
Abstract: A data communication method in a wireless communication system comprises receiving, from a lower layer (i.e. a Radio Link Control (RLC) layer), a data unit having a sequence number and storing the data unit in a buffer, determining whether the sequence number of the data unit is equal to a sequence number + 1 of a last delivered data unit and, based thereupon, delivering in ascending order all stored data units with consecutively associated sequence numbers greater than or equal to the sequence number of the received data unit. Specifically, the invention provides a method of immediately delivering continuously and/or consecutively received Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) Service Data Units (SDUs) to an upper layer if a PDCP entity receives the PDCP SDUs during a process of RLC re- establishment within an Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (E-UMTS).
Patent GB-2462511-A (GB)
Title: Wireless transmission of signals between components of a train using directional antenna.
Inventor: CARROLL CALEB
IPC: B61L15/00
Filed: 2009-06-30
Abstract: A method of transmitting a signal between two components of a vehicle, such as a train, comprises a transmitter (28) on a first component (10) of a vehicle and a receiver (28) on a second component (12) of a vehicle. The transmitter is configured such that the transmitted signal (30) is stronger in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis (32) of the first component. A second transmitter may be located on the second component and cooperate with a receiver on the first component. Preferably the transmitters are aligned towards each other. The transmitter may also comprise directional antenna. In one embodiment the wireless connection between the first and second components may only be established if the vehicles are coupled.
Patent GB-2464623-A (GB)
Title: Folding spanner
Inventor: BUCHANAN NIGEL ALEXANDER
IPC: B25B13/08
Filed: 2007-12-17
Abstract: The spanner or wrench 10 includes a head portion 14 pivotally connected with a handle portion 12 so as to be rotatable between a storage position in which it is received within the handle portion and use positions in which it projects from the handle portion. The head portion is provided with a fastener receiving aperture 50 having a plurality of fastener engaging surfaces (46, figure 2) and a side entry (52, 54, figure 2) through which an elongate member attached to a fastener can be inserted into the fastener receiving aperture to permit the fastener engaging surfaces to be moved into engagement with the fastener by a movement in a lengthways direction of the elongate member. The wrench is operable to close the fastener engaging surfaces around the fastener received in the fastener receiving aperture in response to a torque applied in a predetermined direction using the handle portion.
Patent GB-992873-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to adjusting means for internal shoe drum brakes
Inventor: CHOUINGS LESLIE CYRIL
IPC: F16D65/54
Filed: 1963-03-13
Abstract: 992,873. Internal shoe drum brakes. AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS CO. Ltd. March 9, 1964 [March 13, 1963], No. 10008/63. Heading F2E. Automatic adjusting means for an internal shoe drum brake comprises a lever 21 extending in a circumferential direction and pivoted at 22 on the shoe-web 14 for movement in a plane parallel thereto, friction means 26 holding the other end of the lever in an adjusted position relative to the brake shoe and a fixed abutment 32 carried by the back-plate 1 and so associated with the lever 21 that, during brake application, movement of the brake shoe in excess of normal travel due to wear of the lining results in pivotal movement of the lever by contact with the abutment 32 in a direction causing the said other end of the lever to swing away from the brake lining by an amount dependent on the amount of excess movement, to compensate for wear. The brake shoes 2 and 3 are operated against the force of return springs 5 by means 4 which may be operated mechanically or by fluid pressure. The lever pivot 22 extends through a hole 25 in the web. The friction discs 26 are mounted on a pin 31 extending through a slot 23 in the web and are loaded by a spring 27. The abutment 32 extends through another slot 32 in the lever which is sufficiently wide to allow the lever to move undisturbed when the brakes are applied unless the travel exceeds the normal. Positive holding means such as serrations 33 on the lever co-operating with the spring end 34 may be provided. Fig. 1 shows an embodiment without the said serrations in which the lever 7 pivots about dimple 10 engaged in a hole 15 in the web 14 and the friction means is provided directly between the surfaces of the lever 7 and of the web 14 which are pressed together by a Belville washer 18.
Patent GB-956236-A (GB)
Title: Steplessly variable transmission
IPC: F16H29/04
Filed: 1963-03-13
Abstract: 956,236. Variable-speed ratchet gearing; change-speed control. STANLEY WORKS G.m.b.H. March 13, 1963 [April 27, 1962], No. 10012/63. Headings F2D and F2K. In a variable-speed ratchet gear in which torque from an input shaft 2 is transmitted to an output shaft 6 by a variable radius crank 5 through a rocking lever 9 and free-wheel 10, the end of the rocking lever 9 is articulated to a slide 4 guided radially in a flange 3 on the input shaft and controlled by a spindle 12 having a reversing screwthread and gears 14 meshing with a toothed ring 16 brakable by electromagnetic means. The brake 19 on the hollow shaft 18 rigid with the gear ring 16 is operated through a lever 20 by a solenoid 35, the lever 20 being interlocked with a lever 30 acting through a fork 28 to release a spring- loaded locking pin 22 to release the slide 4 when the brake is applied to effect a ratio change. The solenoid 35 is energized by a circuit including vehicle speed-responsive means such as the speedometer and an oscillometer 34 is provided to indicate the state of the gear.
Patent GB-810543-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the drilling of metals
Inventor: HOLLIS WILLIAM STEPHEN
IPC: B23B51/06
Filed: 1954-04-06
Abstract: 810,543. Drills. NATIONAL RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. July 6, 1955 [April 6, 1954], No. 10023/54. Class 83 (3). A drill comprises a longitudinal duct 2 in the shank 1, through which a refrigerating medium, e.g. carbon dioxide, or a refrigerated medium, which may be in the form of a mist, is fed to the vicinity of the cutting- edges of the drill. The duct 2, in the nature of a capillary tube, may be formed by drawing or extruding a thick-walled tube until the bore is of the required diameter, or by lining the shank with a capillary tube. A coaxial duct 6, in the tip 5 of a cermet or of hard metal, may have a smaller diameter than duct 2, and can be formed in the moulding of the tip or by drilling, e.g. by ultrasonic vibrations. The diameter of the shank may be the same as, or less than, that of the tip, or it may be less than that of the tip except at the part adjacent the tip. One or more ducts 7 may discharge the coolant to the rear of the cutting-edges of the tip. The coolant may be supplied to a chamber 10 of sufficient length to allow the drill to be fed without exposing the entrance passage 9 to the duct 2, or the end of the shank may project into a coolant chamber. An insert 13, Fig. 2, may be used having a ridged, dovetailed or rounded portion to engage the shank. The Provisional Specification refers to a diameter of from 0.001 to 0.02 inch for the capillary duct.
Patent GB-1422417-A (GB)
Title: Circuit arrangements for rejecting in-phase signals
IPC: H03F1/30
Filed: 1973-03-01
Abstract: 1422417 Measuring transducer output voltage AUERGESELLSCHAFT GmbH 1 March 1973 [1 March 1972] 10045/73 Heading G1U In order to compensate for variations in the impedances, shown as resistors 4, 5, Figure 2, of leads connected to a variable impedance transducer 1 energized by a constant current source 6 powered from the same supply as that which drives an amplifier 3, a voltage stabilizing unit 7 is arranged to maintain the voltage at the lower end of the transducer 1 constant, this being achieved by comparing at 9 that voltage with the voltage across a Zenor diode 10 and adjusting the emittercollector impedance of a transistor 11 accordingly. As a consequence the amplifier 3 can measure the voltage across the transducer independently of any variations in resistors 4, 5. In a modification Fig. 3, (not shown) the transducer 1 is constituted by a resistance bridge and the supply voltage across is stabilized by two units 7.
Patent GB-100960-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Press-button Fastenings.
IPC: A44B17/00
Filed: 1916-07-19
Abstract: 100,960. Waldes & Go. July 19, 1915, [Convention date]. Press-button fasteners. -A hollow rivet b for attaching the female part of a press-button fastener to a fabric band is formed by pressing out the metal of the base a of the fastener itself, the fastener being secured in position between the two layers d, h of the fabric by turning over the edge c of the hollow rivet. The free ends of the spring e are retained in position by T-shaped tongues f pressed out from, and bent back over, the base a, the outer part of the spring being held by turnedover parts g at the edge of the base.
Patent GB-127131-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electric Furnaces.
Inventor: WHITE ALFRED ERNEST
IPC: F27D3/18
Filed: 1918-06-20
Abstract: 127,131. White, A. E., (Industrial Electric Furnace Co.). June 20, 1918. Tilting furnaces; covers.-The cover of an electrically-heated tilting furnace is carried by a frame 17 swinging on horizontal pivots 16 situated below the top of the furnace so as to reduce to about 45 degrees the angle through which the cover must be turned to uncover the furnace. Movement of the frame and cover may be effected by a crank driven through reducing-gear by an electric motor, which is mounted on the tilting carrier of the furnace so that the cover may be raised in any position of the furnace. The cover consists of brickwork held bv a band 15<1> which is attached at a number of points to the frame 17. When lowered, the cover is sealed by a ridge of sand or the like 28. The furnace body is tilted by an electric motor and a rack provided with a stop.
Patent GB-971418-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in brakes
IPC: F16D65/46
Filed: 1963-03-14
Abstract: 971,418. Internal shoe-drum brakes. L.-C. BRISSON. March 14, 1963 [March 23, 1962], No. 10224/63. Heading F2E. A spring-retracted internal-expanding-shoe drum brake for road-vehicles comprises an operating lever 22 hydraulically actuated through a strut 37 at one end to turn about a fulcrum 23 and thrust through struts 26, 19, the mid-point and trailing end respectively of floating primary and secondary shoes 1, 2, thereby applying the primary shoe 1, the leading end of which is slidably supported on a stoppost 8, such that the primary shoe initially turns with the brake drum to apply engaging thrust to the secondary shoe 2 through an interconnecting shoe strut 12. In Fig. 4 (not shown) the primary shoe is connected to the operating lever through a T-piece linked to the lever by a single adjustable strut and to the shoe by a pair of parallel tension links. Manually screwed adjusters 31, 15 in the links 26, 12, respectively, compensate for wear. The hydraulic actuating cylinder (Fig. 3, not shown), is mounted externally or internally of the backing plate and actuates the strut 37 through a lever 39.
Patent GB-576902-A (GB)
Title: Improved roller-weighing means for textile drawing, spinning and analogous machinery
IPC: D01H5/48
Filed: 1944-05-26
Abstract: 576,902. Roller-weighting arrangements for textile drawing &c. machinery. HOWARD & BULLOUGH. Ltd., and HUNTER, W. A. May 26, 1944, No. 10230. [Class 120 (ii)] A roller-weighting device for textile drawing &c. machinery comprises a saddle 12 adapted to rest upon a single roller 7, a depending link 13 positively guided in the saddle for endwise sliding movement in relation thereto, and means, e.g., a spring 15 or a weight 24, for applying tension to the lower end of the link 13 and means, e.g., a cam-shaped lever 18, 19, associated with the upper end of the link, which may be operated to cause the tension means 15, 24, to be effective and the saddle to bear with increased pressure on the roller, or to relieve the saddle from the effect of the tension means. In a modification, Fig. 3, the compression spring 15 is housed within a bore 22 in the saddle 12 the hook 21, which engages the rail 14, applying tension to the link 13. In a further modification, the weight 24 in the inoperative position is supported by a frame 25, but when the hook 23 is moved upwardly by movement of the lever 18, 19 the link 13 is tensioned so to " weight the roller 7. Specification 488,328 is referred to.
Patent GB-799784-A (GB)
Title: Conveyor system
IPC: B65G47/48
Filed: 1954-11-25
Abstract: 799,784. Controlling load-carriers in conveyer systems. STAATSBEDRIJF DER POSTERIJEN TELEGRAFIE EN TELEFONIE. Nov. 25, 1954 [Nov. 27, 1953], No. 10239/57. Divided out of 798,944. Class 78 (1). In a conveyer system comprising a main channel and one or more branch channels communicating with the main channel, selected load-carriers travelling in the main channel are diverted into a branch channel in accordance with their orientation by providing a plurality of differently shaped slots in the bottom of each load-carrier and arranging a switching pin and a guiding roller at the or each junction of a branch channel with the main channel. As shown, a carrier 540 is orientated such that a groove 541 in its base is in position to be engaged by a pin 530 for direct transfer from a conveyer belt 506 in main channel 501 to belt 509 in the continuation 502 of the main channel, while a carrier 545 with the other end foremost is orientated such that a groove 544 in its base is in position to be engaged by the pin 530, this causing the carrier to be diverted around a guide roller 521 until groove 544 engages another peg or roller 531 which further guides the carrier into engagement with belt 512 in branch channel 503. Each channel has side walls for guiding the carriers, the walls 510, 511 and 504 being bent as shown to avoid contact with a carrier being deflected from channel 501 to channel 503. As each carrier is transferred over the junction it depresses a switch-actuating roller 520 to signal its passage. The peg 530 may be retracted electromagnetically, if desired. In a further construction (Fig. 3a, not shown), four channels are associated at a junction so that one channel supplies either a second or a third channel, the third channel also being supplied by a fourth channel.
Patent GB-714298-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to clamps
IPC: B60R9/058
Filed: 1952-04-24
Abstract: 714,298. Luggage &c. racks &c. for vehicles. PARR, B. A. March 23, 1953 [April 24, 1952], No. 10337/52. Class 103(2) [Also in Group XXV] A clamp for removably securing a luggage carrier or other articles on or adjacent to the roof of a motor vehicle comprises a hook 4, 5 adapted to extend beneath the upper part of a door frame 6, or other fixed part, and a keeper member 10 adapted to extend into the roof gutter 7 to prevent lateral withdrawal of the hook. Hook member 4, 5 is welded to a shank 1, the part 4 being grooved at 8 to receive the shank, and a hole through part 4 and shank 1 receives a bolt 9 which screws into keeper member 10, the latter having at its upper part a flange 12 formed with a recess into which fits the shank 1. The upper end of shank 1 is threaded to carry a clip member 17 by means of which it is secured to the lower rail 14 of the luggage carrier, as described in Specification 670,744.
Patent GB-1445222-A (GB)
Title: Gymnastics apparatus
IPC: A63B21/00
Filed: 1974-03-07
Abstract: 1445222 Gymnastics device pump K-E BERKESTAD and L G T BORJESSON 7 March 1974 [12 March 1973] 10374/74 Heading F1N [Also in Divisions A5-6] A pump, e.g. for use as a gymnastics device (see Division A5-6) comprises an air cylinder, a piston, having a piston-rod, movable inside said air cylinder, and non-return valves arranged such that during repeated relative movement between the piston and cylinder the air-pressure in the device and resistance to the relative movement increases successively, an evacuation valve also being provided to reduce the air-pressure within the device. The embodiment shown in Fig. 1 has a piston 14 connected to piston-rod 20 movable inside tube 2, which forms the air cylinder 12. Tubes 1 and 2 are joined at their ends by spherical shaped member 3 and plug 4 and enclose chamber 13 connected to the air cylinder 12 by hole 11. Member 3 houses an evacuation valve comprising valve button 9, seating 10 and spring 8. The evacuation valve may be manually operated or may have a predetermined opening pressure. Non-return valves are provided in piston 14 and plug 4. Piston-rod 20 is attached to end member 21 with housing 22 slidably fitted over tube 1. During operation of the device, members 3 and 21 are pushed together forcing piston 14 into chamber 12. O-ring 19 is forced sealingly against side face 17 of groove 15 in piston 14 compressing the air in chambers 12 and 13, air being allowed into chamber 28 via the gap between piston-rod 20 and hole 23, between O-ring 29 and groove side 26 and through the hole 27. When the applied force is removed the pressure of air in chamber 12 and 13 forces piston 15 outwardly until the pressure in chamber 28 is equal to that in 12 and 13. On further outward movement of piston 14, O-ring 19 is forced against side 16 of groove 15 permitting air to enter chamber 12 from chamber 28 via hole 18, chamber 28 being sealed by O-ring 29 pressing against side 26 of groove 24. Thus on repeated movement of piston 14 the air-pressure and thus resistance to movement increases successively. The pressure may be relieved by the evacuation valve. Further embodiments are shown in Figs. 2-4 wherein different arrangements of non-return valves are used, such that it is possible for the resistance to movement and the air-pressure in the device to be increased in both direction of movement of piston 14, which may have a hollow piston-rod 20 having a chamber connected with the air cylinder.
Patent GB-236166-A (GB)
Title: An improved process for making laminated films
IPC: B32B27/00
Filed: 1925-04-22
Abstract: 236,166. Kodak, Ltd., (Assignees of Derhoef, H. E. van). June 27, 1924, [Convention date]. Compound fabrics and sheet materials.- Laminated films are made by interposing an adherence-promoting solvent between sheets of cellulosic addition compounds and pressing the sheets together, one at least of these sheets being in a partially cured state so that it contains volatile solvent although its face is dried. The sheets formed on smooth wheels 2 are stripped therefrom by rollers 7 and pressed together by rollers 9, the adherence-promoting solvent being supplied between the sheets by means 8. The composite film is dried by air as it passes round rolls 10 and by the heated rolls 11. In modified apparatus endless bands take the place of the wheels 2 and extra guide rollers give a drying period as the films pass from the wheels 2 to the pressing rollers 9. Apparatus is also described for making in the same manner a composite film of two films produced by uniting sheets as described.
Patent GB-950935-A (GB)
Title: Liquid fuel combustion apparatus, for jet-propulsion engines, gas turbines, or otherprime movers
Inventor: JACKSON SQUIRE RONALD
IPC: F23R3/60
Filed: 1959-03-26
Abstract: 950,935. Gas turbine combustion chambers. JOSEPH LUCAS (INDUSTRIES) Ltd. March 8, 1960 [March 26, 1959], No. 10507/59. Heading F1L. A liquid fuel combustion apparatus has a nose piece connected to a combustion chamber via the intermediary of a hollow tapering extension of generally circular cross-section, the nose piece being shaped to define between it and the extension a pair of substantially segmental openings through which air can flow to swirler. A combustion chamber 3 is supported in spaced relationship within an air jacket 4 by means of a forked bracket 15 which is attached to a hollow tapering extension 10 to which is attached a nose piece 11. In transverse section the nose piece 11 is of a substantially rectangular form having parallel sides adjacent to a pair of segmental apertures 12 formed between it and the hollow tapering extension 10. An aperture 13 in the nose piece 11 receives a fuel pipe 14 attached to a burner 7 which is surrounded by a swirler 8 supported on a coaxial end plate 9. The width of the nose piece is approximately equal to the diameter of the swirler 8 such that direct impingement of air on the swirler is prevented.