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Patent GB-2163810-A (GB)
Title: Manual seat recliner with positive locking mechanism
Inventor: HAYDEN RICHARD
IPC: B60N2/22
Filed: 1985-08-27
Abstract: An adjustable recliner mechanism for manually adjusting the forward and rearward position of an automobile seat back relative the seat base while a passenger is seated therein includes an adjustment arm 12 having an upper end connected to the seat back, a middle portion pivoted at 30 to a support frame of the seat base and a lower end having an arcuate cogged surface 34. A drive gear 38 with a knob 42 to allow manual rotation of the drive gear is mounted to the support frame. A transfer reduction gear is positioned between the drive gear and the arcuate cogged surface to reduce the torque required to pivot said adjustment arm a sufficient amount so that manual forward and rearward adjustment of the seat back can be accomplished even when a passenger is seated in the automobile seat and exerting a rearward pressure against the seat back. A clutch assembly is associated with the drive gear 38 for positively locking the seat back in place when the adjustment knob is not being turned. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2182085-A (GB)
Title: Sliding door
Inventor: BARFORD IAN WILLIAM
IPC: E05D15/06
Filed: 1985-10-26
Abstract: A sliding door structure includes a door panel 52 suspended from a rail (not shown) by two roller assemblies 56. Each roller assembly 56 comprises a toothed wheel 60 having an integral boss 62 axially slotted 64 to allow insertion into hole 66 in the door panel 52. The boss 62 locates in a recessed hole 68 in leaf 70 of a right angled bracket 72 of which upper web 74 lies flush along the top edge of the door panel 52 such that leaf 70 lies flush against one main surface of the panel 52 thus securing the toothed wheel 60 to the door panel 52 in a slot defined by ears 78 and leaf 70. A resilient leaf 80 provides a tooth 82 which engages with the toothed wheel 62 to prevent rotation thereof. A roller stem 86 having rollers 90 on each end is located through an eccentric aperture 84 in the boss 60. A tool 98 is provided to adjust the toothed wheel 60 thus altering the height relationship between the door panel 52 and the rail (not shown) on which the rollers 90 run. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2187800-A (GB)
Title: Crankcase compression operated fuel injection system
Inventor: POWELL ALEXANDER ROBERT
IPC: F02M57/02
Filed: 1986-03-13
Abstract: A combined pump and injector has a reciprocating pumping plunger (14) driven by a spring loaded piston 1 subjected to variations in crankcase pressure during the engine cycle to provide the motive power to inject a timed and metered shot of fuel into the engine cylinder. The injector is situated in its own engine auxiliary transfer port so that crankcase pressure acts on a piston 1 via an air passage 11 to compress a spring 2 and also draw fuel into a chamber ahead of the plunger (14). When the transfer port opens, the drop in pressure allows the spring (2) to drive the piston (1) back to its rest position thus injecting a shot of fuel. The stroke of the pump is directly related to the maximum crankcase pressure and therefore automatically meters the quantity of fuel injected. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2188289-A (GB)
Title: Prospective drawing aid
Inventor: SELWYN SMITH CLIVE
IPC: B43L13/14
Filed: 1986-03-27
Abstract: A perspective drawing aid comprising a base board (1) having vertical (4) and horizontal axes, two transparent screens (5, 6) with radiating guide lines (11, 12) and individually pivotable adjacent the respective left and right-hand edge of the base board (1) by means of pins (7, 8), engageable on slots (2, 3) extending along the horizontal axis of the base board (1) on either side of the vertical axis (4) to allow the screens to pivot and to slide towards or a way from the vertical axis (4) whereby to provide a choice of optimum angle in relation to which an object can be viewed and reproduced in perspective on a drawing surface. Perforations may be provided instead of the slots with a respective pivot pin engaging in any selected perforation of the respective screen. The screens may alternatively be pivoted on a common pivot pin to provide a fixed vanishing point. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2173452-A (GB)
Title: Laser beam printing method and apparatus
Inventor: VARNAM DANIEL ARTHUR
IPC: B01J13/02
Filed: 1986-04-04
Abstract: A method of printing comprises applying microcapsules containing ink to a surface, such as paper, exposing the microcapsules to a laser beam containing information corresponding to the image so that microcapsules addressed by the beam have their properties changed, and applying to the surface the ink in the addressed or non-addressed microcapsules e.g. by rupture of the microcapsules. Thus microcapsules retained on paper by electrostatic attraction may be rendered electrically conductive by the beam so as to be readily removed from the paper. The photoconductive properties of the microcapsules may be wavelength sensitive, for colour printing. Alternatively the beam may rupture the addressed microcapsules thereby depositing ink, or a chemical reaction in the walls may be initiated which may be completed by u.v. radiation.
Patent GB-2189834-A (GB)
Title: Key locating and retaining device
Inventor: MCGOWAN RICHARD KEITH
IPC: E05B13/00
Filed: 1986-04-25
Abstract: The key locating and retaining device has a base plate 3 upon which is mounted two guides 1 and 2, which can pivot about fulcrum 4 in direction of Arrow A. This assembly Fig. 1, is mounted above lock housing cylinder 5 of a latch type door lock. In operation the user locates key in V shaped space formed by top of guides 1 and 2 and runs the key downwards with a slight forward pressure until guided into lock slot. The key is turned and the guide allows this movement until the horizontal "open" position of key is reached whereupon it springs back preventing spring loaded return of key. The door handle having been operated and door opened the key can then be removed by pinching together the tops of guides returning key to "closed" position by virtue of lock barrels spring loading and withdrawing. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2192659-A (GB)
Title: Mine roof support with hinged two part canopy and jack to control angle of parts
Inventor: PRESCOTT KENNETH DAVID
IPC: E21D23/00
Filed: 1986-07-15
Abstract: A roof engaging device for a mine roof support comprises at least two roof engaging parts 26 and 27 connected together for relative pivotal movement about an axis extending transversely of the direction of advance of the roof engaging device when fitted to a roof support. The roof engaging device includes hydraulic jack means 31 for controlling the relationship between the two roof engaging parts relative to the pivotal axis, prior to presentation to the mine roof.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2177936-A (GB)
Title: Air-filter arrangement
Inventor: KOCHANOWSKI HANS ALFRED
IPC: F02M35/16
Filed: 1986-07-15
Abstract: In an air filter arrangement for an internal combustion engine,the filter element (22) is mounted directly on a duct 14 which is an integral part of or directly secured to the engine casing, whereas the filter housing (32) is separate from the filter element and is independently mounted on the engine with the interposition of vibration 26 damping materials (36, 38). The filter housing in Figures 2 to 4 is an extension of the sound-deadening cowling which surrounds the engine. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2179440-A (GB)
Title: Baking and roasting oven
Inventor: FLEISCHMANN HERBERT
IPC: F24C7/06
Filed: 1986-08-01
Abstract: A baking and roasting oven consists of a heatable oven liner (1), the heating means of which consists of a heating element at the bottom and one at the top and possibly of a grill heating element as well as a hot- air fan. The oven liner (1) is partially or completely formed or composed of wall portions (7) of glass or glass ceramic. Radiant heating elements or halogen heating elements (14), which are accommodated in a tray-like or trough-like insulating member (15), serve as heating elements. The tray- like or trough-like insulating member (15) is pressed with its open side against the outside of the glass wall portion (7). An insulating space (19) in member (15) is filled with air or other heat insulating material. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2180657-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for checking the fitting of connectors
Inventor: KATO SHINICHI
IPC: G01R31/04
Filed: 1986-09-17
Abstract: A first connector 1 with a plurality of first terminals has a groove 1b formed between two adjacent first terminals 14,17, which have opposite contact elements 9a,9b projecting into the groove 1b. A mating second connector 2 with second terminals 15a,15b .... corresponding to the first terminals has a projection 4a insertable into the groove 1b to perform disconnection for connection) of the opposite contact elements 9a,9b when the connectors 1,2 are fitted together at a predetermined position. An electrical device warns of incomplete fitting of the connectors 1,2 in accordance with the connection (or disconnection) of the contact elements 9a,9b. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2195940-A (GB)
Title: Molding laminated panels
Inventor: GALIMBERTI UGO
IPC: B29C51/08
Filed: 1986-10-03
Abstract: Molded and laminated door panels for vehicles are made from a thermoplastic substrate and a flexible coating. The panel has at least one peripheral area where the coating material (32) extends over the edge (34) of the substrate (31). Plasticized blanks of the substrate and the coating material are laminated in a molding press (4) having upper and lower mold portions (41, 42) for reciprocating motion. The substrate is edge-trimmed while still in the press by a segmented moving knife (43, 44) cooperating with a counter knife (423, 424) formed at a laterally protruding shoulder (421, 422) of the lower mold portion (42). The moving knife is composed of at least two segments arranged peripherally around the protruding shoulder of the lower mold portion. The segments reciprocate between a cutting position where they form a continuous cutting edge and a non-cutting position in which the mold press can be charged and discharged. A predetermined edge molding area or space is formed by the moving knife in conjunction with the counter knife and with a peripheral face (411, 412) of the upper mold portion (41) providing for differing types of edge formation on a given panel. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2182638-A (GB)
Title: Beer dispense apparatus
Inventor: BUNTING BRIAN GEORGE
IPC: B67D1/14
Filed: 1986-10-22
Abstract: A sparkler cap for fitment to the outlet nozzle of a beer dispense tap can be adjusted so that a required amount of froth is produced on a glass of beer. The cap comprises two plastics elements snap fitted together, i.e. an adjustment member (12) and a body member (10) both of which have through slots, the arrangement being such that when the elements are turned relative to each other the slots can impede the flow but such that flow cannot be cut off completely. In an alternative embodiment, the elements are joined by a spigot and socket. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2182562-A (GB)
Title: Herbicidal mixtures
Inventor: ROGNON JACQUES
IPC: A01N47/30
Filed: 1986-11-05
Abstract: Herbicidal mixtures of pyridinoxyalkanoic acid derivatives and phenoxybenzoic acid derivatives especially useful for the control of weeds in cereal crops comprise a compound (e.g. Fluroxypyr) of formula   <IMAGE> in which R<1> and R<2> are each H or C1-4 alkyl, X<1> and X<2> are halogen, R<3> is H or methyl, and R<4> is H (or an ammonium or metal cation) or alkyl, and a compound (e.g. Bifenox) of formula   <IMAGE> in which X<3> is Cl or CF3, R<5> is -OCH3, -ONa, -NHSO2R<6> or -O-CH(R<7>)-COOR<8>, Z is -N= or -CH=, R<7> and R<8> are as R<3> and R<4> and R<6> is C1-4 alkyl.
Patent GB-2191329-A (GB)
Title: Decontamination of surfaces
Inventor: GOODALL GEORGE HAROLD
IPC: G21F9/00
Filed: 1987-05-21
Abstract: A process of decontaminating a surface of a component contaminated with a radioactive species such as technetium trapped under an oxide layer present on an aluminium component comprises removing the oxide layer with sulphuric acid, and treating the exposed technetium with a complexing agent such as citrate in the presence of an oxidising agent. An oxide scavenger may be added to prevent reformation of the oxide layer. Actinides can be removed from the resulting effluent by use of a chelating ion exchange material, and technetium by oxidation and use of a basic ion exchange material.
Patent GB-2192780-A (GB)
Title: A soaked grain handling apparatus
Inventor: FENTON RICHARD STANLEY MICHAEL
IPC: B02B1/04
Filed: 1987-07-22
Abstract: A soaked grain handling apparatus comprises a vessel 1 mounted above a platform 3 by means of legs 2. Soaked grain is delivered from the vessel by a worm conveyor 4, pipe 5 and T-valve 6. A further worm conveyor 7 has a vertical axis and operates within the cavity of vessel 1 to prevent bulking of the granular material. This is supplemented by operation of stirring vanes 10. Grain in a hopper 12 adjacent platform 3 is conveyed to the top of vessel 1 by a third worm conveyor 11. A water coupling supplies water to vessel 1 via control valve 13. A control system comprising a microprocessor controls input to and output from the vessel 1 as well as operation of motors driving worms 4 and 7. Platform 3 may be supported by means comprising load cells 15 providing indication of the weight of the vessel and its contents. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2211131-A (GB)
Title: Polymeric films
Inventor: HARRISON JOHN
IPC: B32B27/32
Filed: 1987-10-20
Abstract: The invention concerns polymeric films which can be used for twist wrap, for example for confectionery. Films of the invention have a layer of a blend of high density polyethylene with a polyethylene of lower density, a layer of high density polyethylene being provided on each surface of the blend. In general films of the invention will be produced by coextrusion and then uniaxially stretched in the machine direction. It has been possible to cut such films satisfactorily in a direction transverse to the direction of stretch using an oscillating cutter blade of the type used to cut films of reconstituted cellulose.
Patent GB-2206706-A (GB)
Title: Light monitoring system
Inventor: ALDRIDGE THOMAS JOHN
IPC: B60Q11/00
Filed: 1987-11-25
Abstract: The light monitoring system is for use on a motor vehicle having several light units. Each of the light units is optically connected by fibre optic connectors 11, 12 to a display unit 14. The light input end, 7, 8 of each fibre optic connector is externally mounted to the relevant light unit 3, 4 by a mounting device having a face located flat against the cover for the light unit. The face 20 of the mounting device has a channel 19 arranged to receive the fibre optic connector 10 and to locate the end surface 18a of the connector transverse to the face of the mounting device. The end surface of the light input end of the fibre optic connector is located in a recessed portion 22 of the mounting device, the recessed portion being enlarged relative to the channel so as to allow for reflection of light from the light unit into the input end 18a of the fibre optic connector. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2198996-A (GB)
Title: Radial tyres
Inventor: IDEI MITSUSHIGE
IPC: B60C9/18
Filed: 1987-12-21
Abstract: In a radial tyre a breaker 7 is disposed in the circumferential direction inwardly of the tread portion 5 and outside a carcass 6. The breaker 7 has a radius of curvature R1 at the crown smaller than the radius of curvature R2 at the shoulder portions when the tyre is mounted on a rim and inflated to 25% of the standard pressure. This radial tyre is further characterised in that the breaker is provided within a curve which is inscribed in an arc (R0), Fig 2, having its centre on the equator of the tyre and passing through the intersection P where the breaker intersects the equator of the tyre and a point Q on the breaker distant from the intersection P by a distance L corresponding to the smaller value selected between 1/4 and 1/2 the width of either the breaker 7 or the ground contacting width W2 of the tread portion, at the intersection P and which passes inside the arc R0 and intersects the arc R0 at the point Q when the tyre is mounted on a rim and inflated to 25% of standard pressure. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2201209-A (GB)
Title: Anti-skid control apparatus for vehicle x-split braking system
Inventor: ARIKAWA TETSURO
IPC: B60T8/1764
Filed: 1988-02-17
Abstract: Anti-skid control apparatus includes a common wheel speed sensor 28c' for the driven wheels and individual sensors 28a', 28b' for the non-driven wheels. In Fig 8 a first fluid pressure control valve 4a arranged between a first fluid pressure generating chamber of a tandem master cylinder 1 and the wheel cylinder 12a of one rear non driven wheel 11a, and a second fluid pressure control valve 4b aranged between a second fluid pressure generating chamber of the tandem master cylinder 1 and the wheel cylinder 12b of the other rear wheel 11b, rear front. A control unit 31 discriminates the "low side" frictionally lower side of the road from the measuring results of the skid conditions of the rear and front wheels on the basis of the outputs of the first, second and third wheel speed sensors 28a' to 28c', or of the first and second wheel speed sensors 28a', 28b, the "low side" being changeable over in accordance with the measuring results at any time. The control unit 31 combines logically the measuring results of the skid conditions of the front wheels with the measuring result of the skid condition of the one rear wheel running on the "low side" for generating the instruction for controlling the respective fluid pressure control valve 4a, 4b, and generates the instruction for controlling the other fluid pressure control valve on the basis of the measuring result of the skid condition of the other rear wheel running on the "high side" frictionally higher side of the road independently of those of the front wheels. In an alternative arrangement Figs 1, 6 (not shown) for a rear wheel drive vehicle, two wheel speed sensors are provided for the front wheels, and a single wheel speed sensor is provided for both rear wheels in common. The device 120 (also in Fig 7, not shown) outputs the lower pressure from the control valves 4a, 4b during anti-skid operation to both driven wheels. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2218656-A (GB)
Title: Method of and apparatus for patterning solid workpieces
Inventor: BLAKE STEPHEN PAUL
IPC: B05C17/06
Filed: 1988-05-20
Abstract: A stencil for use in the patterning of a workpiece of wood or glass by blasting with particulate etching material, comprises a patterned metal layer having a rubber or plastics layer on the side towards which the impacting etching material such as sand is directed in use.
Patent GB-2223966-A (GB)
Title: Making flexible abrasive member
Inventor: SMART DAVID JAMES
IPC: C25D1/00
Filed: 1988-05-27
Abstract: A method of making a flexible abrasive member comprises applying an electrically non-conductive mask 2 to regions of a surface of an electrically conductive, flexible mesh material 1 so as to leave unmasked regions 3 thereon, mounting the mesh material on an electrically non-conductive carrier 4, electro-depositing a coating of metal onto the unmasked regions 3 of the mesh material 1 in the presence of abrasive particles so that the coating of metal penetrates at least partially through the mesh material 1 towards the carrier 4 and abrasive particles are embedded in the metal coating, and demounting the coated mesh material from the carrier 4. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2221381-A (GB)
Title: A garment chest with a facility for folding garments
Inventor: THOMAS WILLIAM JAMES
IPC: A47B61/00
Filed: 1988-08-05
Abstract: A garment storage chest is provided with a cover 1 which may be raised and lowered by means of a foot operated pedal 4. The cover is so dimensioned that a garment folded about it will fit within the interior storage cavity. The cover 1 opens in a parallel manner so that a garment may be inserted to lie between the cover 1 and the side pieces 6, then the cover be lowered to grip the garment, which can then be folded in the usual way using the pivoting arm members 7 to assist in folding the sleeves. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2209816-A (GB)
Title: Fluid flow control valve and a flushing system incorporating such a valve
Inventor: BROWN ROBERT ANTHONY
IPC: F16K31/00
Filed: 1988-08-22
Abstract: A flushing system for a urinal (16) comprises a fluid flow control valve (12, 60) in a pressurised water supply line, an outlet of the valve feeding a tank (15) for delivering flushing water to the urinal (16), and a capillary tube (19) containing fluid and having a temperature sensing part in a waste trap (17) of the urinal. Expansion and contraction of the fluid in the temperature sensing part causes expansion and contraction of a bellows (20) arranged in the valve between a fixed (21) and a movable part (22) thereof. In use, the temperature of the urine is sensed by the sensing part, with the result that the bellows expand and moves the movable part of the valve away from the fixed part, thereby lifting a valve member (30) off its valve seat and allowing a flow of water to the tank to flush the urinal. The sensed temperature then falls and the valve closes. Thus in this application of the invention, flushing occurs only when the urinal is actually used. The valve includes a permanent feed device constituted by a bore (47) and pin (48). The tank (15) and permanent feed device may be omitted. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2212504-A (GB)
Title: Solid polyacrylamide electrolyte
Inventor: DOBROWSKI STEVEN ANTHONY
IPC: H01B1/12
Filed: 1988-11-18
Abstract: An ionically conducting solid polymer electrolyte is a complex of a homopolymerised or copolymerised N,N-disubstituted acrylamide with an alkali metal salt say lithium perchlorate. The acrylamide polymer units have the formula   <IMAGE> R<1> and R<2> may vary widely, and are e.g. methyl, or R<1>-N-R<2> may form a ring. The complex is formed by dissolution of the acrylamide polymer and salt in a solvent followed by evaporation of the solvent, or by polymerisation of the acrylamide monomer in the presence of the salt and optionally a co-solvent, e.g. N,N-dimethylacetamide, which can act as plasticizer.
Patent GB-2212883-A (GB)
Title: Magnetic powder clutch with stopper pins
Inventor: SAKAI YASUHITO
IPC: F16D37/02
Filed: 1988-11-23
Abstract: A magnetic powder clutch has an annular driver member 2 comprising a pair of disk members 2a, 2b, a hub 5 disposed in a space formed in the driven member, damper springs 7 disposed between the driven member 2 and the hub 5, a plurality of stopper pins 8, each of which passes through an aperture in the hub 5 and has its ends secured to the driven member 2. The stopper pin 8 comprises a pin body and a cylindrical collar mounted on the pin body. The pin body is made of soft steel and the collar is made of steel harder than the pin body and forms a bearing surface for engagement with the hub 5. In a modification (Fig. 4) torque from the member 2 is exerted directly on the collar. …<IMAGE>…
Patent GB-2227515-A (GB)
Title: Combination padlock
Inventor: CHERN JENN-RONG
IPC: E05B37/14
Filed: 1989-01-31
Abstract: The padlock has a housing 20, 60, a U-shaped locking bar 10 a rocker located within the housing and being engageable with a flange 11 of locking bar 10, and a slide plate 30 connected with the rocker for moving it out of engagement with the flange 11 when three number wheels 40 are set to the correct combination. When this combination is set, angular cams 34, 35, 36 extending from recesses 31, 32, 33 in the plate 30 move into recesses 411 in wheel sleeves 41 the plate 30 moving under spring 80; this moves the roper and disengages rod 54 from flange 11 to allow locking bar 10 to move to an open position under force of spring 12. The rocker has a central shaft 51 received in shaft seat 27 and a shaft of a support rod 53 of the rocker is received in an elliptical hole 38 in slide plate 30. <IMAGE>