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Patent GB-2099969-A (GB)
Title: A dryer for particulate material
IPC: F26B17/10
Filed: 1981-04-25
Abstract: A dryer for particulate material comprising a plurality of zones through which the material to be dried is carried sequentially by air through the zones to cause drying. The dimensions of the zones are arranged so that the velocity of the material passing into one zone is altered such that the material can be constrained to dwell in that zone and turbulate therein until it has dried sufficiently to be carried by the air into the next succeeding zone. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2101543-A (GB)
Title: Powered vehicle
Inventor: HUE ANGEL
IPC: F02B75/18
Filed: 1981-05-11
Abstract: A powered vehicle is provided with an internal combustion engine having the direction of reciprocation of the pistons 18 aligned with the direction of vehicle movement and the head end of the engine facing the front of the vehicle. The crankshaft axis may be horizontal or vertical. The vehicle may be an automobile, truck, tractor, locomotive, motorcycle, ship, boat, submarine or airplane. If the vehicle is a wheeled vehicle, front or rear wheels of the vehicle may be driven. The invention is said to reduce fuel consumption by utilising forces generated during combustion in the engine and acting in the forward direction of the vehicle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2103187-A (GB)
Title: Process and apparatus for treating banknotes
Inventor: BLEASDALE STEPHEN FRANCIS
IPC: B65H5/36
Filed: 1981-06-10
Abstract: A means for eliminating or reducing the severity of creases in used banknotes thereby enabling them to be used in banknote counting and dispensing machines. Banknotes are dispensed from a hopper (10) to a belt conveyor (18) and are moistened by means of a spray device (36) as they are conveyed away from the hopper (10). Upper brushing members (24) and lower brushing members (26), which are sub-adjacent to the respective upper brushing members, form nips on either side of the conveyor. The brushing members rotate in a manner such that brushing elements of the members brush the greater part of the surfaces of each banknote in a sweeping action as the banknote is conveyed. Each banknote is deposited from a further end of the conveyor onto an output conveyor (19) where the banknotes are dried, e.g. with the aid of heater (34). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2083111-A (GB)
Title: Sound-insulating railway track
IPC: E01B9/68
Filed: 1981-08-28
Abstract: In a ballast-free railway track wherein a rigid substructure incorporates a series of spaced bed plates 3 and wherein resilient sound-insulating elements 5 are interposed between the plate 3 and a rail-support plate 4 to which the rail 2 is fastened, the sound-insulating elements 5 are prestressed by adjustable devices 10 which urge the plates 3, 4 together. As shown each device 10 comprises a nut and bolt carrying a resiliently deformable washer. The sound-insulating elements 5 are shown interposed between opposed frusto-conical projections 8 and recesses 9 on the plates 3, 4 respectively. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2111042-A (GB)
Title: Titanate based gel
Inventor: BOSOMWORTH PAUL ANTHONY
IPC: C04B35/043
Filed: 1981-12-02
Abstract: An aqueous binder for a basic refractory based on magnesia grains comprises a titanium alkoxide and an aminoalcohol.
Patent GB-2094974-A (GB)
Title: Photoelectric encoder device
IPC: G01P3/486
Filed: 1982-03-12
Abstract: A photoelectric encoder device includes a first optical lattice (10) comprising an array of narrow light- transmitting zones (14a) or light- reflecting zones, and a second optical lattice (12) comprising a semiconductor bed (28), and semiconductor zones (34) having a photoelectric converting function with light-shielding zones (30) therebetween. The photoelectric converting zones (34) and the light- shielding zones (30) are arranged at equally-spaced intervals, and the second lattice (12) is arranged in face- to-face relationship to the first lattice (10). The second optical lattice (12) has a current-collecting layer (36) over substantially all the semiconductor zones (34). The photoelectric converting elements may be photodiodes as shown, phototransistors, or photo-FETs, converting the intensity of the light to electric current. An amorphous semiconductor layer may be used as the bed (28) on the base plate (26). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2097357-A (GB)
Title: Transferring packets
IPC: B65B19/24
Filed: 1982-04-16
Abstract: Apparatus for transferring partly formed soil tubular packs of cigarettes, closed at one end by folding and in which the adhesive securing said ends may not have fully set from forming mandrels into pockets of a drying drum, comprises a pair of folded end backup air cylinders (54), 56 which are pivotally mounted for alternately swinging laterally into the successive open-sided pockets 20 of the drying drum 12 to engage the folded pack end and maintain slight compression thereon as the pack is stripped from its respective mandrel 14 of a pack-forming drum 10 by a pusher 62. Meanwhile, the other cylinder is extended in readiness for pivoting laterally through the open side of the next packet when the drums 10 and 12 indexed into alignment with the pusher. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2105252-A (GB)
Title: Production of footwear with a two-coloured moulded sole
Inventor: BROMFIELD ALEC ROY
IPC: B29D35/08
Filed: 1982-08-26
Abstract: A shoe having a two-component (e.g. two-coloured) moulded sole is produced by:   (1) closing a first mould (14, 18, 22) with a shoe upper (10) on a last (12), and moulding a first sole layer (26) onto it; and subsequently (2) closing a second mould (40, 44) with the last (12)/upper (10)/first layer (26), and moulding a second sole layer (50) adhering to the first.   The first layer (26) may have a depending skirt (30) which seals the second mould, which may have an outwardly tapering mouth portion (42) to facilitate insertion. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2106708-A (GB)
Title: Focusing structure for photomultiplier tubes
Inventor: MCDONIE ARTHUR FREDERICK
IPC: H01J43/20
Filed: 1982-09-07
Abstract: In an electron discharge photomultiplier tube comprising an evacuated envelope (12) having therein an electron emissive photocathode (20) and a primary dynode (22) with a substantially flat base (29) spaced from the photocathode, the focusing means comprises a substantially flat electrically conductive structure (28) including an outer electron impermeable annular support ring and an inner annular mesh member substantially transmissive to electrons. The mesh member has a centrally disposed aperture therethrough which is substantially coextensive with the flat base of the primary dynode. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2247583-A (GB)
Title: Vector filter for optical moving target detection
Inventor: REED IRVING S
IPC: G01S11/12
Filed: 1982-11-05
Abstract: A clutter rejection filter for use in detecting moving targets which may be employed in a passive optical acquisition system. The filter comprises a plurality of detector elements D which view an image scene. A plurality of transversal filters 22 are individually coupled to the plurality of detector elements. Each of the transversal filters amplitude weight signals provided by the respective detector elements as a function of time, with each of the transversal filters having a pre-determined impulse response. Summing circuitry is coupled to each of the transversal filters for combining the output signals provided thereby into a single output signal for the filter. The filter provides output signals which are maximized for objects traveling at a second velocity. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2109792-A (GB)
Title: Herbicidal thiazolo- and [1,3]thiazino-[2,3-c][1,2,4]- triazinones
Inventor: KLOSE WALTER
IPC: C07D513/04
Filed: 1982-11-16
Abstract: Herbicidal preparations contain novel thiazolo- and [1,3]thiazino-[2,3- c][1,2,4]triazinones of the general formula I   <IMAGE> (in which R1 represents C1-C6-alkyl optionally interrupted by O and/or S, free or esterified -COOH or alkyl- COOH, optionally alkyl-substituted C3-C8-cycloalkyl, or aromatic, aromatic-aliphatic or heterocyclic hydrocarbon which may be mono-, di- or polysubstituted by Hal and/or C1- C4-alkyl and/or C1-C4-alkoxy and/or C1-C4-alkylthio and/or -NO2, R2 represents H, C1-C6-alkyl or optionally substituted aromatic hydrocarbon, R3 represents H, C1-C6-alkyl, optionally substituted aromatic hydrocarbon, benzyl or -OH, R4 represents H, C1- C6-alkyl, optionally substituted aromatic hydrocarbon, benzyl, C1- C4-alkoxy or -OH, and n represents O or 1).
Patent GB-2113394-A (GB)
Title: Thermal printing apparatus
Inventor: BIDDLES BARRY JOHN
IPC: G01D15/14
Filed: 1982-11-19
Abstract: A thermal printer for displaying an upper surface of a printable sheet so that the information being recorded thereon may be viewed directly comprises a support 17 for a thermally sensitive printable sheet 15. Light from a pulsed laser 20 is directed by a plane mirror 11 and a lens 12 to a writing spot 13 on the underside of the sheet 15. The laser and optical system are supported on a carriage 21 capable of movement in two dimensions. The laser output is enabled by a signal from one of the two carriage motors 22, 23 indicating that printing is in progress and thereby preventing over-heating of a single spot. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2111725-A (GB)
Title: A dynamic balancing machine
Inventor: INOUE KIYOSHI
IPC: G01M1/34
Filed: 1982-11-30
Abstract: The machine incorporates a fully automatic reforming unit (2) and includes a pair of oscillatory bearing units (11, 12) for resiliently supporting a workpiece (3) rotatably about a horizontal axis. Pickups (19, 20) are provided to sense the oscillations of the rotating workpiece about the axis. A computing unit (24) responds to oscillation signals (21a, 21b) to determine therefrom and from signals (23) representing the rotation of the workpiece the amounts and positions of local unbalance of the workpiece. For reforming operation, a fluid-actuated piston/cylinder arrangement (36, 37) is used to fix the axis of rotation of the workpiece in alignment with the horizontal axis to enable the workpiece to rotate without oscillations. The reforming unit comprises an EDM arrangement and control circuit (33-35) responsive to the computing unit for controlling parameters of machining by an EDM tool electrode (25) located in machining relationship with each of the regions of the computed positions so as to electroerosively remove a respective one of the computed amount, thereby reforming the workpiece. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2130495-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to toy vehicles
Inventor: TAKASE Y
IPC: A63H17/25
Filed: 1983-04-07
Abstract: A toy motorcycle comprises a body (1), a rear wheel (10) rotatably mounted on the body (1) and a front wheel unit (5) which is connected to a front portion of the body (1) by means of a mounting pin (7) which extends transversely of the longitudinal axis of the toy motorcycle. The front wheel unit (5) can be pivoted about the mounting pin (7) so as to vary the orientation of the front wheel unit (5) with respect to the body (1) and comprises a holding plate (4), a front fork (3) which is rotatably mounted on the holding plate (4) and a front wheel (2) which is rotatably mounted on the front fork (3). A flywheel or spring motor is provided in the rear wheel (10). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2122419-A (GB)
Title: A thin film transistor and an active matrix liquid crystal display device
Inventor: KODAIRA TOSHIMOTO
IPC: H01L23/532
Filed: 1983-04-29
Abstract: A thin film transistor formed on an insulating substrate (8) comprises a source electrode (15) connected to a source region (10), a drain electrode (16) connected to a drain region (11) and a channel region 9 between the source region and the drain region. The channel region is substantially covered by an extension of the source electrode 15 or the drain electrode. Another thin film transistor disclosed has a transparent contact connected to the drain region and lying on an insulation layer. The transistors are used in a LCD matrix including, in each element thereof, a display electrode 210 connected to a polysilicon layer on the transistor at a connection 209. The transistor is also connected to a signal electrode 207 at a connection 208. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2125640-A (GB)
Title: Electric fuse
Inventor: YUKINOBU WATANABE
IPC: H01H85/046
Filed: 1983-07-06
Abstract: An electrical fuse has cylindrical or plate-like insulator body (1) and a surface coating (3) thereon of a low melting point metal which electrically interconnects two terminals (2,2). The coating (3) may be formed in a groove (1a) in the body 1, or, if the body is hollow, on an internal surface thereof. When the body 1 is hollow or platelike, the coating 3 may extend from one surface to another via a through-hole in the body, a terminal being provided on each surface. A plurality of such coatings may be formed on one body. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2125881-A (GB)
Title: Couplings for scaffold tubes
Inventor: THORLEY DAVID EDGAR
IPC: E04G7/18
Filed: 1983-08-11
Abstract: A putlog coupler having a body 1 made from sheet metal formed with a part-cylindrical portion 6 adapted to engage a putlog 4 and including a hook-shaped portion 6' which extends over the top of the putlog 4, has a rib 18 formed in the sheet material which projects from the side of the body opposite the hook-shaped portion and extends from a point 20 of a seating 10 for the ledger 4 for at least a major part of the height of the part- cylindrical portion 6. The rib stiffens the part-cylindrical portion against being opened out but does not interfere with the laying of staging on the putlog. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2128510-A (GB)
Title: Annular hole cutter
Inventor: HOUGEN EVERETT DOUGLAS
IPC: B23B51/04
Filed: 1983-09-13
Abstract: Each tooth (18,20) of the cutter (10) is formed with a radially outer cutting edge (38) and at least alternate teeth (18) are formed with radially extending, circumferentially staggered inner and outer cutting edges (34, 35 or 36:38). The bottom face of each tooth (18, 20) is formed with oppositely radially inclined inner and outer back-off clearance faces (56,58) which intersect in a downwardly extending crest (60) which intersects the radially outer cutting edge (38). The outer back-off faces (58) of alternate teeth (18) are vertically relieved relative to the outer back-off faces (58) of the intermediate teeth (20), and the inner back-off faces (56) of the intermediate teeth (20) are vertically relieved relative to the inner back-off faces (56) of the alternate teeth (18) a distance greater than the chip load at which the cutter is operated, so that the outer cutting edges (38) of alternate teeth (18) cut a chip (68) (Figure 7) only on an inner portion thereof and the outer cutting edges (38) of the intermediate teeth (20) a chip (64) only on an outer portion thereof. When each tooth (18, 20) has a single inner cutting edge (35, Figures 8-14) the inner back off faces may be relieved in that teeth (18) cut a chip on the outer part of the edge (35) only and teeth (20) on the inner part only. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2131537-A (GB)
Title: Stacking containers which have different heights, and which are traversed by a conditioning medium
Inventor: OHLSSON SOREN
IPC: B63J2/08
Filed: 1983-11-02
Abstract: In which for example, ships there are transported stacks of containers (13, 14) which have openings (15, 16) for circulation of conditioned air through the containers. The openings in the containers are connected to openings (19, 18) in units (17) which are stationarily arranged in the ship and supply the conditioned air to the containers. The containers (13, 14) have a height of h or H. In order to make it possible to use containers of different heights alternately in the same stack while simultaneously being connectible to the conditioning units (17), spacers (22) having the height H-h are arranged to be insertable on top of the lower containers (13) having the height h. The spacers are pivotally mounted about vertical axes adjacent to the corners of the stack. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2149731-A (GB)
Title: Endless track-type vehicle
Inventor: TERAI AKIO
IPC: B62D55/06
Filed: 1983-11-17
Abstract: The suspension means for supporting the body on the track frames 40a,40b includes an equalizer bar 45 detachably mounted intermediate its length on the vehicle body and pivot shaft means 42a,42b detachably mounted on the rear part of the vehicle body. Hydraulic motors 55a,55b for driving the tracks are mounted at the rear ends of the track frames. The positions at which the track frames and the suspension means are coupled together are chosen such that the centre of gravity of the whole vehicle is approximately midway of the longitudinal ground contact length of the endless tracks. This construction is particularly suitable for low ground pressure vehicles whose tracks are wider and/or longer than those of general utility vehicle since it enables a vehicle body of general utility type to be employed, the pivot shaft means 42a,42b being mounted at the positions where the drive sprocket wheels would be mounted in a general utility vehicle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2150121-A (GB)
Title: Producing continuous business form stationery
Inventor: IZUME MASAYUKI
IPC: B41G7/00
Filed: 1983-11-21
Abstract: A production line for continuous business form stationery is provided with a web feed mechanism (1), a printing mechanism (2), a processing machine (4) and a delivery machine (5), the processing machine including a unit (158) for punching feed holes along the edges of the web (Fig. 2). The punching unit is constructed in such a manner that pairs of pin wheels 166 and die wheels 171 are mounted on shafts 164 and are transversely adjustable by respective motors 176 driving shafts 172 which have screw engagement with travelling members 173. A slitter (159) and a longitudinal perforator (160) may have similarly adjustable processing heads, and all adjustments may be automatically effected in response to a control signal according to pre-set instructions. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2132412-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to methods of manufacture of semiconductor devices
Inventor: NILARP ANDERS
IPC: H01L21/285
Filed: 1983-12-08
Abstract: Approximately 2 microns of the silicon surface of a wafer are removed prior to metallization to ensure removal of an oxygen-saturated layer of silicon before a first nickel layer is deposited. The assembly is heated sufficiently that the first nickel layer forms a nickel-silicide ohmic contact layer at the silicon surface. The metallizing adheres to bare treated silicon but does not adhere to adjacent oxide coatings and easily lifts off the oxide-coated surfaces. Individual wafer elements 25 are thereafter separated from the main wafer 20 and their bottom surfaces are vacuum-alloyed to a molybdenum expansion plate 80 and further steps are carried out without damage to the metallization which further includes layers of Cr, Ni, Ag, 71-73. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2155613-A (GB)
Title: Forge hearth burner assembly
Inventor: CHESSELL MICHAEL AUSTIN
IPC: F23D14/02
Filed: 1984-03-06
Abstract: Gas fuel burner assembly for a forge hearth includes an open topped trough or cup (12) defining a gas inlet chamber and positioned in the base of the hearth (11), said chamber containing a quantity of heat retentive beads (16), these serving to maintain combustion of the gases once ignited. The cup is provided with an upper mesh 17 and in use is covered by loose refractory chips (not shown). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2156159-A (GB)
Title: Antenna
Inventor: LU KE-CHANG
IPC: H01Q1/38
Filed: 1984-03-15
Abstract: An antenna comprises a square printed circuit board. On one side antenna elements 7, 8, 9, 10 are printed. Each of these comprises an arcuate action which together with linear actions provides a hollow triangle. The other side of the board is provided with resistors, capacitors and inductors, the two sides together forming the complete circuit (Fig. 4 not shown). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2156487-A (GB)
Title: A rotary valve operating mechanism
Inventor: SANDLING MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: F16K31/54
Filed: 1984-03-28
Abstract: An operating mechanism for a rotary valve comprises a rack 18 reciprocatable within a housing 10 by an actuator 20 axially movable from outside the housing through an access aperture 30. The rack engages a pinion 14 connectable with a valve stem 16. A bellows seal 24 surrounds the actuator and is sealed at one end to the rack and at the other end to the housing about the aperture to prevent escape of any noxious fluids which might escape past the valve gland into the operating mechanism housing when sealingly mounted to the valve body.
Patent GB-2137832-A (GB)
Title: Control Means for a Power Converter
Inventor: STUMPF REINHOLD
IPC: H02M7/48
Filed: 1984-04-05
Abstract: Control means for a power-converter WR enables automatic testing of the operational readiness of the converter for parallel operation with other converters (not shown) at a common load rail S. A control unit 1 controls and monitors operation of the converter, a control unit 2 regulates the output power via unit 1, and a control unit 3 tests the readiness for parallel operation. Following preliminary testing of the control, monitoring and power regulating functions of units 1, 2, signals on lines 101, 102 cause unit 3 to effect the parallel operation readiness test. Unit 3 causes units 1 and 2 to first control converter WR to give a higher than nominal output and this is checked by a voltage monitor SpW resulting in an acknowledge signal on line 106. Units 1 and 2 are then caused to operate converter WR at a lower than nominal voltage, resulting in an acknowledge signal on line 107. If both signals 106, 107 are obtained, a contact K3 is closed to connect converter WR to line S. Absence of either or both of signals 106, 107 indicates unreadiness for connection and the converter is de-energised via AND gate 3/5 and line 108 when a timer 3/1 of unit 3 times out. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2157500-A (GB)
Title: Microwave antenna
Inventor: SHAPTER HUGH
IPC: H01Q13/18
Filed: 1984-04-11
Abstract: A microwave antenna comprising a dielectric substrate, carrying on one side thereof a microstrip antenna suitable for operation within a first frequency band and on the other side thereof a conductive ground plane, a first microwave feed coupled between the microstrip antenna and the ground plane for conducting microwave signals in the first band, at least one radiation aperture formed in the ground plane for operation within a second frequency band and arranged to communicate with a resonant microwave cavity defined between the ground plane and a conductive enclosure arranged to extend therefrom, and a second microwave signal feed coupled between the ground plane and the said enclosure for conducting microwave signals in the second band.
Patent GB-2158699-A (GB)
Title: A kitchen-utensil combination with multi-functions and energy-saving features
Inventor: LIAW SHUI-LAI
IPC: A47J27/16
Filed: 1984-05-18
Abstract: Apparatus comprises a combined rice cooker 3, steamer 4, roaster 5, baking oven 6, warming chamber 7 and drinking water dispenser 8. Steam for the rice cooker 3 is generated by means of water in tank 2 heated by element 20. After the steam has passed through the rice cooker it enters the steaming chamber 4, from which it is conducted through pipe 91 to warm the baking chamber 6, the warming chamber 7 and water for the drinking dispenser 8. The roasting chamber 5 includes electric heating element 50. Heat from the roasting chamber rises to provide additional heating of the baking chamber. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2159033-A (GB)
Title: Spreader vehicle
Inventor: WALLEY CHARLES EDWARD
IPC: A01D90/10
Filed: 1984-05-22
Abstract: Agricultural or other spreader vehicle for distribution or dispersing of manure or other materials includes a body (10) within which is an auger or other feed element (12) for transferring the material progressively within the body to a discharge opening (17). In order to prevent the material lodging to form a bridge above the feed element which would starve it and prevent consistent operation an oscillating anti- bridging plate (30) is provided which overlies the interior wall surface including an area opposite the opening, driven by an eccentric (33) on the auger shaft. <IMAGE>