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Patent GB-2238938-A (GB)
Title: Fishing hooks; flies
Inventor: PIDGEON MICHAEL
IPC: A01K85/08
Filed: 1990-11-30
Abstract: In a method of salmon fishing a fly is made on a fishing hook which has an eye 14 located in the shank 11 of the hook at a position spaced from, but near to, the end 15 of the shank 11 opposite to the bend 12 which has a barb 13 forming the hook part. The eye 14 lies in a plane which includes the shank 11 and which is perpendicular to the plane containing the bend 12. The dressing of the fly is attached at least partly at a position between the eye 14 and the said other end 15 of the shank 11. In use, the line 20 which is attached to the eye 14 extends away from the fishing hook in contact with the surface of the water and at an angle to the length of the shank 11 so that, when the fly is drawn over the surface of the water, a double bow wave, caused by the said other end 15 of the shank and the junction of the line 20 with the eye 14, forms a ripple pattern attractive to the salmon. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2239500-A (GB)
Title: Adaptive control of servo activating hydraulic fluid pressure for shift in automatic transmission in response to intake airflow rate and vehicle speed
Inventor: TAKIZAWA SATOSHI
IPC: F16H59/40
Filed: 1990-12-19
Abstract: The present invention relates to an adaptive correction of servo activating hydraulic fluid pressure during shift. In one embodiment according to the present invention, a ratio of a mass airflow rate of intake air admitted to an engine (Qa) to a revolution speed of a transmission output shaft (No) is calculated, and a first parameter (TqSEN) is determined in response to the ratio (Qa/No). Besides, a second parameter (No) is the transmission output shaft speed (No). The servo activating hydraulic fluid pressure is determined in response to this first and second parameters. In another embodiment, a turbine shaft speed (Nt) is calculated from the output shaft speed (No) and a gear ratio (g) of a gear position established before shifting. The turbine shaft revolution speed (Nt) is used instead of the output shaft speed (No) in determining the first parameter (TqSEN). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2246571-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of powder coating compositions
Inventor: HANDYSIDE TIMOTHY MARC
IPC: C09D5/03
Filed: 1991-07-01
Abstract: Compositions suitable for application in powder coating processes are produced by melt atomisation of thermosettable mixtures. The product is characterised by improved particle size distribution and by a generally rounded particle shape.
Patent GB-2263059-A (GB)
Title: Attachment of legs to support platform
Inventor: PHILLIPS JOHN WILFRID
IPC: F16M11/16
Filed: 1991-12-19
Abstract: A shock absorbing device suitable for attaching a tripod leg (2) to a support platform (4) incorporates a slipping clutch mechanism (13). The slipping clutch serves to absorb any shock suffered as a result of the tripod being dropped in a "legs deployed" position. Hence the legs (2) are less likely to buckle under impact. … <IMAGE> …
Patent GB-2256551-A (GB)
Title: Switched-capacitor integrator with chopper stabilization performed at the sampling rate
Inventor: KERTH DONALD ALLAN
IPC: H03F3/38
Filed: 1992-03-31
Abstract: A switched-capacitor integrator (10) with chopper stabilization performed at the sampling rate virtually eliminates the flicker noise and any low frequency interference generated by the amplifier (12). The integrator samples the input and then passes the sampled input to the feedback capacitor (14) during each chopping phase of the amplifier to thereby provide a double-sampled integrator. The output of the integrator is sampled at the end of each cycle of the chopping signal. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2255501-A (GB)
Title: "moulded plastics furniture"
Inventor: JONES HUW ROLAND
IPC: A47B17/02
Filed: 1992-05-01
Abstract: A table top is designed to be supported on two horizontal parallel arms (5) which have individual height adjustment (9) to allow tilting. The top comprises two vacuum moulded panels (10, 11), the upper one (10) having a downturned flange (13) and the lower one (11) having an upturned flange (14) which fits closely within and is adhered to the upper panel flange (13). The lower panel (11) is also moulded with clips (16) into which the arms (5) can snap, and with reinforcing ribs (15). The same construction can be applied to other furniture components such as seats or shelving. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2266824-A (GB)
Title: Controlling a heating device in a vending machine
Inventor: BRIGGS DAVID
IPC: H05B6/80
Filed: 1992-05-08
Abstract: The food to be dispensed is in a sealed pack 10 having a flexible wall 14. The device includes a microwave heating source 18 and a movement sensor in the form of a vertically slidable PTFE rod 20 which can be moved by outwards movement of the flexible wall 14 of the sealed pack 10. When the rod 20 has been moved a certain distance it abuts and operates a microswitch 23 which disconnects the microwave source 18 from its power supply for a pre-determined time period. Alternative the movement sensor can be a light beam sensor. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2272013-A (GB)
Title: Lockable frames formed from metal extrusions
Inventor: TANG SWEE PI
IPC: E05C1/04
Filed: 1992-11-03
Abstract: A door or window frame comprises lengths of metal extrusion 2, each length of extrusion defining at least one internal cavity, and a restraining bolt 7, the lengths of extrusion being connected by connecting pieces 4 having tongues 5 configured so as to be received snugly by the cavities of the extrusions, the connecting pieces being configured so as to receive and guide the bolt. The frames are easier to assemble, and save on wastage caused by misalignment of the bolt in the frame during assembly. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2261647-A (GB)
Title: Automatic device for accumulating various objects on a roller conveyor without accumulation pressure
Inventor: PASSERO ADOLFO
IPC: B65G47/26
Filed: 1992-11-12
Abstract: An automatic device for smooth accumulation of objects on a roller conveyor and adapted to be used with any standard roller conveyor available on the market comprises a transmission belt 3 driven by a motor 6 and friction coupled to conveyor rollers through counter-rollers 2 located between the conveyor rollers and movable vertically in order to vary the torque applied to the conveyor rollers 1. Calibration of the device on a prefixed value of the torque can be carried out manually by adjusting two variable position supports 5, 9 for moving a bar 4 on which the counter-rollers 2 are rotatably mounted or by remote control through reduction motor coupled with the position supports. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2263239-A (GB)
Title: An exhaust gas filter
Inventor: JOKL BERNHARD
IPC: B01D46/52
Filed: 1993-01-05
Abstract: An exhaust gas filter comprises a stack of corrugated sintered metal plates defining an array of alternate inlet and outlet channels, respectively closed at downstream and upstream ends, the inlet channels 6, 13 having larger cross-sections than the outlet channels 7, 14, to accommodate more soot. In Fig. 3 the plates 3, 4 all exhibit the same 'wavelength', but alternate plates 3, 4 have different 'amplitudes', i.e. their corrugations are respectively deep and shallow. In Fig 4 the plates are all identical, with alternate deep and shallow corrugations. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2264494-A (GB)
Title: 17b-n-monosubstituted carbamoyl-11-oxo-4-aza-5-a-androst-1-en-3-one             testosterone-5-alpha reductase inhibitors
Inventor: ARISON BYRON H
IPC: C07J73/00
Filed: 1993-02-16
Abstract: Novel 17 beta -N-monosubstituted carbamoyl-11-oxo-aza-5 alpha -androst-1-en-3-ones have the formula: <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2267121-A (GB)
Title: Improvements to suspending loads from a helicopter.
Inventor: KURTGIS MICHAEL PAUL
IPC: B64D1/18
Filed: 1993-05-17
Abstract: An arrangement and method for suspending a load from a rotary winged aircraft such as a helicopter by two releasable connections, wherein the load is adapted to be detached from the rotary winged aircraft only upon both connections being released. Further safety features are also claimed. In the Fig. 2 construction one connection is to a connection point 3 such as a hook and the other is via a strap 6. In the Fig. 3 construction both connections are via straps. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2268494-A (GB)
Title: Imaging agent comprising a labelled malarial peptide
Inventor: PRENDERGAST KENNETH FRANCIS
IPC: A61K51/08
Filed: 1993-07-06
Abstract: Compositions of matter having affinity for erythrocytes and capable of binding to a Red Cell a labelling moiety; Such compositions being useful for diagnostics imaging as blood pool imaging compositions, comprise an agent of formula:  (R*n-Cz)-Lm-Px  wherein P is a peptide from a malarial parasite, or a deletion, or insertion, variant thereof; L is an amino acid, polyamine acid of formula (Xaa)m or (XaaZaa)m, or a non-malarial peptide fragment, as linker;     C is a chelator capable of binding to the sidechain of an amino acid and to a labelling entity; R* is a labelling entity (particularly a radioactive, or luminescent, atom); n, m, x and z are integers.ity f
Patent GB-2279648-A (GB)
Title: Flexible and hollow members for dispersing bubbles of gas into a liquid medium
Inventor: WALTON JOHN MAWSON
IPC: B01F15/00
Filed: 1993-07-07
Abstract: A flexible restraining member or cable 26 is separably connected to the exterior of a tube 21 and extends along the entire length of the tube 21, which consists of a membrane 4 having perforations distributed along it and over at least part of its circumference. Compressed air supplied to the tube 21 bubbles out into a liquid medium through the perforations, which have been formed by non-ablative piercing and which provide a passage cross-section decreasing towards the outside 4a of the membrane 4. The membrane 4 is supported by a cylindrical roller during piercing, so as to accurately control the penetration of the membrane 4 by needles carried by another roller. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2271301-A (GB)
Title: Atomising nozzle and filter
Inventor: DUNNE STEPHEN TERENCE
IPC: B05D/
Filed: 1993-07-19
Abstract: The present invention provides a simple form of nozzle assembly for use in generating sprays from a fluid, which comprises a plate 1 having grooves 2 leading to the edge and another plate 10 which lies on plate 1, co-operating with it so that the grooves become liquid conduits. As shown, grooves 2 converge so that issuing liquid jets impinge on each other. Other configurations are illustrated. Other, preferably smaller, grooves 3 link inlet 4 with plenum 5 from which grooves 2 run. These grooves 3 act as filters so that the liquid, which in use passes up spigot 21 to aperture 10 and inlet 4 is freed from solids before it reaches grooves 2. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2269813-A (GB)
Title: Making carbon fibre from coal-derived solution
Inventor: MORGAN DAVID LEWIS
IPC: C01B32/949
Filed: 1993-08-16
Abstract: A method of producing carbon fibre includes the steps of providing a solution of a coal-derived material in a solvent, typically dimethylformamide, adding polyethylene oxide having a molecular weight of at least 3 x 10<6> daltons to the solution to provide a spinning solution, spinning the spinning solution into a fibre and causing the fibre to gel, typically by contacting it with a gelling solvent. The coal-derived material will have a composition, free of solvent, of 70 to 91 percent by mass of carbon, 2 to 6 percent by mass of hydrogen and 3 to 20 percent by mass of oxygen.
Patent GB-2270464-A (GB)
Title: Cleaning paint brushes and rollers
Inventor: HARRIS ANDREW DARBY
IPC: B44D3/00
Filed: 1993-08-27
Abstract: A paint brush and roller cleaning device for removing surplus paint adhered to a brush or roller, prior to the application of cleaning liquid to the brush or roller. The device comprises a handle (1) and a blade (2) which has a toothed portion (7) and an arcuately recessed portion (8), the toothed portion (7) being adapted for drawing through the bristles of a paint brush to remove paint therefrom, and the arcuately recessed portion (8) being adapted to fit over part of the circumference of the paint applying surface of a paint roller and to be drawn along the surface to wipe paint from the surface. The blade may also have a part (14) shaped for use in prizing the lid off a paint tin. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2273122-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle barrier
Inventor: WILSON IAN
IPC: E01F13/08
Filed: 1993-11-18
Abstract: A vehicle barrier comprises a first arm 6 pivoted at one end to one end of a bracket structure 1 and a second arm 10 pivoted at one end to the other end of the structure 1. The two arms 6, 10 are linked by a member 14 pivotally connected 16, 18 thereto. The arms are moveable from a stowed position within a recess defined by the structure to an erect position where both arms extend upwards from the structure 1. A gas spring or actuator 30 is provided to urge the first arm 6 to the erect position. The member 14 may be latched and locked to the second arm 10 when the arms are erect.
Patent GB-2286840-A (GB)
Title: Safety valve for horizontal tree
Inventor: MORGAN MICHAEL
IPC: F16K31/163
Filed: 1994-02-10
Abstract: The valve 30 may be used to provide well pressure containment without reliance on a BOP stack or SSTT, and in one aspect comprises a valve element (48, fig. 3) rotatably mounted in a valve body (46, fig. 3) for opening and closing a flow path through the valve body by bringing a main bore (50, fig. 5) extending through the valve element in a direction generally transverse to its rotation axis into and out of alignment with the flow passage. Seal means (52, fig. 5) are provided between the valve body and valve element, defining a sealing surface at which all points are spaced equidistantly from the valve body rotational axis. An hydraulic actuator arrangement (60, 68, figs. 3 and 4) may be provided for rotating the valve body. In a further aspect, the invention provides a horizontal christmas tree 14 and cap 28 assembly in which the cap 28 is located internally of the tree 14 and comprises a through passage giving access to the well for workover operations, the passage being closable by a valve 30, the tree including a hanger plug 31 which is installable and removable through the valve. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2278201-A (GB)
Title: Meter expansion mechanism
Inventor: SANDS ROBERT E
IPC: G01F15/18
Filed: 1994-03-24
Abstract: A handwheel expansion mechanism comprises a meter adapter 20, a handwheel body 40 and an expansion cup 60 which is slidingly engaged with the meter adapter 20, the handwheel body 40 being threaded to the meter adapter. Rotation of the handwheel body 40 causes the handwheel body to create a space between the base of the meter adapter 20 and the handwheel body at the same time, metal-on-metal contact between the generally flat surface 48 on the handwheel body and the proximal end of the cup 60 causes the cup to be pushed without rotation along the meter adapter 20. A friction ring 28 is located in a groove adjacent the distal end of the adapter and cooperates with the cup. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2278885-A (GB)
Title: Engine throttle body throttle stop
Inventor: FIELD MARTIN JOHN
IPC: F02M3/07
Filed: 1994-05-23
Abstract: The substantially closed position of the butterfly valve (16, Fig. 1) in the throttle body (12) is determined by engagement of a lever arm 18 on the valve shaft (14) with the surface 148 of a cam 146 secured by a screw 140 to a boss 132 on the throttle body. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2278741-A (GB)
Title: Lightning strike protection
Inventor: SMITH HENRY ROY
IPC: H02G13/00
Filed: 1994-05-31
Abstract: Lightning strike protection for an aircraft is provided by mounting metal (aluminium) rods 12 adjacent but spaced from the inner surface 14 of the aircraft wall 10. The rods are provided with extensions 20 through the wall of the aircraft and within the material of static dischargers 26. The rods are coupled to bus bar which run the length of the aircraft in turn are coupled to lightning strike dischargers (Figure 2). The protection system may be applied to radomes, antennas, pitot tubes carbon fiber reinforced plastics structures, in the former two cases metal rods being provided to extend in the null field of a device within the radome or the antenna. The rods take surges of electromotive force caused by lightning strikes and thereby prevent damage of the fabric of the aircraft wall. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2291011-A (GB)
Title: Printing device
Inventor: MAGILL ANTHONY PHILIP
IPC: B41F17/38
Filed: 1994-07-05
Abstract: Articles of clothing such as T-shirts may be printed by mounting the article on a support such that the article is under tension and defines a surface of predetermined geometry, for example the surface of a cylinder 1 or a surface of oval construction. A printing head 2 is mounted adjacent the surface so as to be displaceable parallel to that surface. The printing head supports an array of printing devices such as bubble jet printers, the array being transported such that the spacing between each of the printing devices and the surface to be printed is substantially constant. The movement of the printing head can be controlled by a computer so as to enable any desired pattern to be printed on, for example, a T-shirt. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2293592-A (GB)
Title: Dual-level Parking Systems
Inventor: CHEUNG GUN PO KENNETH
IPC: E04H6/06
Filed: 1994-09-27
Abstract: A parking system comprising a horizontal substantially rectangular platform 1 upon which a vehicle may be stationed and a substantially upright platform support (2a, 2b, fig. 3) on which the platform is mounted for movement between a lowered position in which a vehicle may be driven onto the platform and a raised parked position in which a further vehicle may be parked below the platform, in which system the platform has front and rear edges interconnected by side edges and a ride-on ramp 7 extends along at least a portion of the front edges of the platform and along at least an adjacent portion 9 of at least one of the side edges of the platform. Preferably the ramp extends the full length of the front and half or a third of the side edges. Wheel stops (16), a chain drive and an extended operating arm (15) are also preferably provided. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2296137-A (GB)
Title: Coaxial connector coupling unit
Inventor: GRAY IAN JAMES STAFFORD
IPC: H01R13/646
Filed: 1994-12-12
Abstract: A coaxial connector coupling unit comprises a housing (10) having a through aperture (11) which permits insertion of a mateable coaxial terminating unit. The terminating unit has an outer body (21). The housing has at least one electrically conductive resilient element (14) which is located, or locatable, in the housing and is so arranged as to make resilient electrical contact with the outer body of the terminating unit upon insertion into the housing. The resilient element (14) may be a barbed elongate finger located in a groove along the aperture (11) with the end of the finger in a blind groove (20, fig. 10) in the housing (10). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2287686-A (GB)
Title: Conveyor belt tracking system
Inventor: HULSE DAVID KENNETH
IPC: B65G39/16
Filed: 1995-03-22
Abstract: A method and apparatus for use in sensing and correcting wander in a load-carrying conveyor belt 5 comprises belt edge sensors 25, a single tracking roller 10 rotatably mounted beneath the load-carrying run of the belt in support 11 to 14 pivotally movable about a vertical axis aligned with the normal centre line of the belt, and an air cylinder 20 operable in response to a signal from the sensors to alter the angular position of the support relative to the direction of belt movement in a manner to constrain the belt to return to its means running position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2288019-A (GB)
Title: Assay for determining biochemical changes at phospholipid bilayer membrane      surfaces
Inventor: O'SHEA PAUL STUART
IPC: G01N33/80
Filed: 1995-03-30
Abstract: A method of detecting or measuring cell receptors and other molecules near the surface of cells having a lipid membrane, especially human lymphocytes and erythrocytes, in which the cells are labelled in vitro with a molecular probe comprising in the molecule a lipophilic moiety so that the probe can insert into the cell membrane and a reporter moiety of the pH-indicating kind, especially one which is fluorescent, which will stand above the cell surface, causing a ligand to bind to the receptor or other cell surface molecule and detecting or measuring the resultant change in the electrical potential of the probe, especially a change in fluorescence intensity. Fluorescein phosphatidylethanolamine is a preferred probe. The invention is also applicable to liposomes and lipid bilayers.
Patent GB-2300606-A (GB)
Title: A safety steering wheel
Inventor: CHITOLIE DICK LUCIEN
IPC: B62D1/11
Filed: 1995-05-10
Abstract: A steering wheel (1) for a vehicle, which steering wheel (1) comprises a first part (3) adapted to be gripped by a driver of the vehicle for vehicle steering purposes, a second part (5) on which the first part (3) is mounted, and a third part (7) which is pivotally connected to the second part (5), the first and the second parts (3, 5) being telescopically connected together so that the steering wheel (1) is able to collapse in a longitudinal direction in the event of an accident causing driver impact with the steering wheel (1), and the second and third parts (5, 7) being pivotable with respect to each other so that the steering wheel (1) is able to tilt sideways in the event of the accident causing driver impact with the steering wheel (1).
Patent GB-2301676-A (GB)
Title: Fluid metering station with integral orifice plate
Inventor: OLIVER TERENCE RICHARD
IPC: G01F1/42
Filed: 1995-05-31
Abstract: A fluid metering station comprises a plate 5 with an orifice 6 integrally formed with a stainless steel housing 1 defining chamfered inlet and outlet bores 2, 3. Radially spaced bosses 9, 10 integrally formed on the housing 1 and located midway between inlet and outlet bores 2, 3 communicate with the housing interior on opposite sides respectively of the plate 5 such that the pressure on either side of the plate can be measured via a suitable instrument (not shown) inserted into the bosses 9, 10. Grooves 14 and 15 formed on opposite sides respectively of the bosses 9, 10 can accept complementary parts of proprietary clamping devices.
Patent GB-2306081-A (GB)
Title: Passive power supplies
Inventor: RICHARDSON CHRISTOPHER KEITH
IPC: H02M7/217
Filed: 1995-10-10
Abstract: A passive electrical power supply for providing electrical power to an electronic circuit, comprising an antenna 1, 2 for converting radio frequency signals into electrical signals, a transformer 6 for transforming electrical signals into further electrical signals capable of altering the impedance of a FET 17, which FET provides at its drain 10 a quasi half wave rectified representation of the electrical signals, which electrical signals are converted to a dc signal by a capacitor 18 connected to the drain of the FET, thereby providing a means for converting radio frequency energy into dc electrical energy for operating an electronic circuit, e.g. an electronic tag.
Patent GB-2296079-A (GB)
Title: Refractory ceramic component
Inventor: SLAMENIK MANFRED
IPC: B28B19/00
Filed: 1995-12-05
Abstract: The refractory ceramic component consists, at least partially, of sections (20) with wound, bandage-like structure, and is composed of sections (20) incorporating hollow spaces (30) within the refractory material; these spaces having been formed by evaporation or burning of a carrier material or a coating on a carrier material, after drying, hardening or firing the component.