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Patent GB-2468501-A (GB)
Title: Armoured vehicle
Inventor: HALLIWELL TERENCE
IPC: F41H7/02
Filed: 2009-03-11
Abstract: A military or armoured vehicle comprises a first cylindrical monocoque F having first longitudinal axis and an oval cross section, and a second cylindrical monocoque G having a second longitudinal axis and an oval cross section. The first and second monocoques F, G are oriented such that the first and second longitudinal axes are coincident and the longest oval diameter of the first monocoque F is perpendicular to the longest oval diameter of the second monocoque G.
Patent GB-2469993-A (GB)
Title: Measuring the propagation properties of a light beam using a variable focus lens
Inventor: HALL SIMON RICHARD GEOFFREY
IPC: G01J1/42
Filed: 2009-04-28
Abstract: A system for obtaining a propagation factor for determining the performance of a light beam, for example a laser beam 18. The system includes a light sensor 10, a lens element 30 operable to focus a beam from a light source 14 to be tested towards the sensor element 10; wherein the lens element is a variable focus lens 30. The performance of a light beam could be determined by making measurements including the beam width, the width of the spot at the beam waist and the location of the beam waist. The lens element may be adjustable by means of an electrical stimulus. The lens may be an electrowetting or liquid crystal lens.
Patent GB-2462932-A (GB)
Title: Distributed digital media playback metering and reporting
Inventor: KNIGHT MARK STEPHEN
IPC: G06Q30/00
Filed: 2009-08-28
Abstract: A distributed digital media metering and reporting system makes available digital media files for multiple consumer devices 50 from a computer-based infrastructure. The consumer devices meter the number of playbacks of a media tile that last beyond a predefined extent, in order to generate metering data, and then automatically report that metering data back to the computer-based infrastructure. The metering data may be used for optimising the handling and delivery of the media, for recommending further media to a specific user based on playing preferences, for generating reports, for indicating royalties payable, for indicating a chart of the most popular media files or identifying listening or watching trends. The predefined extent may selected to be sufficiently long to distinguish a user playing a track from a user skipping past tracks.
Patent GB-2474070-A (GB)
Title: Recyclable container blank with recyclable article securing web
Inventor: WHITESIDE ANDREW DAVID
IPC: B65D5/50
Filed: 2009-10-05
Abstract: A container formed from a blank 1 has a web of material 20 therein adapted to constrain an article therein. The web of material 20 is selected from one or more materials having substantially identical recycling characteristics to the container. The blank 1 consists of a base portion 2 having a pair of opposed side wall portions (5, 6) and an opposed front wall portion (3), and rear wall portion (4). Each wall portion (3-6) is connected to the base portion 2 at a fold line F, and the front (3) and rear (4) wall portions may carry a lid section 10, 11. Preferably articles A to be constrained by the web 20 are inserted within the base portion 2 over the web 20 which is then closed and tensioned to secure the articles A. Preferably the web 20 carries cohesive portions. A method of forming a container having a material web 20 is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2464802-A (GB)
Title: Breathing gas conditioning apparatus comprising a heat exchanger, an evaporator and a cooling supply
Inventor: KOCH JOCHIM
IPC: A61M16/00
Filed: 2009-10-06
Abstract: A respirator having a circuit for breathing gas and having a heat exchanger 7 which is cooled by an evaporative medium. The evaporative medium is introduced into the heat exchanger 7 from a container 8 by means of at least one group of spraying members 9. A cooling gas-feeding means 11, such as a fan, causes a volumetric flow of gas to flow through the heat exchanger 7. In the method of regulating the breathing apparatus the signals from a temperature sensor and a pressure sensor are sensed and analysed by a control unit to enable the conditioning of the breathing gas to be controlled. The control unit switches on the cooling gas-feeding means by means of a controlling signal, when a first temperature limit for the temperature of the breathing gas is exceeded. The control unit also controls the period for which an adjusting valve is open by means of a controlling signal, when a second temperature limit for the temperature of the breathing gas is exceeded.
Patent GB-2474444-A (GB)
Title: Radiator moulded from cement with embedded flow duct and mountings
Inventor: COOPER JOHN
IPC: F24D3/16
Filed: 2009-10-14
Abstract: A central heating radiator has a body 10 of cementitious material, a flow duct 13 embedded within the body 10 for heated water with an inlet and an outlet (16, fig 1),17 disposed externally of the body for coupling to a central heating system, and brackets 18 for mounting the radiator to a support structure (e.g. a wall). The duct 13 can be turns or coils of copper pipe, and the cement Portland filled with sand, acrylic polymer and/or glass-fibre. The duct 13 can be suspended within the mould until material in the partially filled mould has set, and then brackets 18 encapsulated in a further layer of material. The cementitious material is inexpensive, and can be moulded with a relief pattern, has a higher thermal mass than steel and thus the radiator remains warm for a prolonged period after the heating is turned off.
Patent GB-2461661-A (GB)
Title: Depth correlation device for fiber optic line
Inventor: MENDEZ LUIS E
IPC: E21B47/04
Filed: 2008-04-22
Abstract: A correlation system is provided to allow association of readings from a cable (30) that is supported by a string (12) but that is coiled around or has slack in one or many locations to a specific location along the string itself. Heat sources (14) can be placed along the string to periodically or continuously give off heat that can be detected by a cable such as a fiber optic. The location of the sources along the string is known and the location along the cable is determined from the location on the cable where the heat generated by the source is sensed. One or more sources can be used and correlation can be by periodic sampling or in real time. The sources may by powered locally or from the surface.
Patent GB-2465270-A (GB)
Title: Magnifying glass detachably mounted to a shelf
Inventor: HEAD ROGER
IPC: A47F13/00
Filed: 2009-11-10
Abstract: Magnifying apparatus for viewing an article/item whilst on display upon a support surface 5, e.g. an item for sale on a supermarket shelf, comprises a magnifier unit 1 and a support unit 6 for enabling positional adjustment of the magnifier unit 1 with respect to an article/item. The support unit may be detachably mounted to the support surface 5 by magnetic means 9 and/or a hook and loop fastener 13,14. The support unit 6 may include a pivoting support arm [2, Fig.3] or a semi-flexible arm 15 to allow repositioning of the magnifying glass 1. The magnifier 1 may be detachably mounted to the support unit 6 via a friction grip connection between a pivoted rod 3 and the limbs 8 of a recess 7 of the support unit 6. Several magnifying units can be installed upon a group of shelves [see Fig.9].
Patent GB-555712-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to top-or heel-pieces for the heels of footwear and the method of manufacturing the same
IPC: A43B21/06
Filed: 1942-07-18
Abstract: 555,712. Heel pads. SUSSEX RUBBER CO., Ltd., and BAILEY, S. July 18, 1942, No. 10042. [Class 17 (iii)] A moulded heel pad comprises a front part 1 and a rear part 2 integrally joined together along a cleavage portion 3 so that the rear part may be readily detached when worn, this rear part being symmetrical with respect to the longitudinal centre line of the pad and being secured by a screw 11 engaging a pressure distributing plate 12. Other holes may be provided in the plate 12 to provide alternate fixing positions. The front part is secured by nails or screws inserted through bosses 8.
Patent GB-954414-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in coiling apparatus for slivers of textile fibres
Inventor: CROASDALE FRED
IPC: B65H67/04
Filed: 1962-03-15
Abstract: 954,414. Coiling and measuring sliver; stopmotions in spinning &c. machines. T. M. M. (RESEARCH) Ltd. March 5, 1963 [March 15, 1962], No. 10048/62. Headings DID and D1F. In a method of severing sliver on completion of filling a coiler can, the operation of a rotary coiler element and the delivery of sliver therethrough is interrupted and the can is moved laterally relative to the element e.g. by continued rotation or lateral shift, whilst the sliver is nipped against the underside of the element and/or of a surface coplanar therewith. As shown, sliver X is taken from a drawing frame (not shown) to calender rollers 34 and 48, thence through the tube 45 of coiler element 44 for deposition in a rotating can 10. When the can is full and coils of sliver at Y are pressing against the underside of element 44 and spectacle plate 46, a length-measuring device 47 operates to energize electromagnetic clutch 31 and brake 32 thereby interrupting the chain (25, 28) and sprocket (24, 26, 27, 29) drive to shaft 33 from motor 11 and stopping rotation of the gear-driven rollers 34, 48 and element 44. The can continues to be rotated by motor 11, through chain (13) and sprockets (12,14) gears 16,17,18, reduction unit 19, spur 20, pinions 21 and friction rollers 23, and, as the sliver is pressed against element 44 and plate 46, it is severed by the tensile force due to the can movement. In a modification (not shown) separate motors drive the can and sliver feeding and coiler elements and the motor for the latter is switched off by a device such as 47.
Patent GB-874771-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for continuous drying and hardening of wood fibre boards, boards of pressed shavings and the like
Inventor: DALE OLAF
IPC: F26B11/02
Filed: 1960-03-22
Abstract: 874,771. Drying wood-fibre boards &c. NORSK WALLBOARDFABRIKK A.S. March 22, 1960, No. 10057/60. Class 96. [Also in Group XIII] Wood-fibre and the like boards are dried and hardened by insertion through a radial slot 20, Fig. 1, in the stationary end wall 9, Fig. 2, of a heated rotary drum 1 and are conveyed in a circular path on radial, grid-like shelves 4, formed within inner and outer circular ribs 2, 3 and removed through a corresponding slot in the other end wall. Air for drying and hardening is supplied by an impeller 10 in the end wall 9 which extends into the central tubular portion of the drum and is heated by elements 7 so that hot air circulates through the elements into a section 11 and then in the opposite direction along the boards to an end section 12 back to the impeller. Moisture-laden air may be extracted through a channel 13 and the boards may be cooled by the closure of a valve 14 in the section 11 so that the heated air is blown into the ambient air through valves 15, 17 while cool air is drawn in by the impeller by the opening of a valve 16.
Patent GB-541253-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in tractor type vehicles especially applicable to military tanks
IPC: B62D55/065
Filed: 1940-06-10
Abstract: 541,253. Endless track vehicles. CARR, A. E. June 10, 1940, No. 10070. [Class 79 (i)] [Also in Group XXI] An endless track vehicle A is provided with a detachable auxiliary track unit B or B<SP>1</SP> at either or both ends, the inclination of these units being adjustable. In the construction shown the main endless tracks t pass round sprockets s on shafts a driven from an engine E through clutches g and chains r, and the auxiliary tracks t<SP>1</SP> pass round driving sprockets s<SP>1</SP> on shafts a<SP>1</SP> co-axial with the shafts a and normally coupled thereto through dog or pin clutches 3 maintained engaged by a cam m on a shaft w<SP>1</SP>. The two auxiliary tracks at each end are connected together by an apron plate n and a plate b to form a unit. If a unit is damaged it can be released by rotating the cam shaft w<SP>1</SP> through 90 degrees, when the cam m becomes inoperative and a cam m<SP>1</SP> rocks levers z to allow springs j to disengage the clutches 3 and allow the auxiliary track to be removed. Normally the auxiliary tracks lie flat as shown-in full lines in Fig. 1 but when an obstacle is encountered the leading track unit pivots about the shaft a, and being driven through the sprockets s, s<SP>1</SP> assists the main part of the vehicle to climb the. obstacle. The pivotal movement of the auxiliary track unit automatically causes the main tracks t to become convex to the ground by the lowering of their roller trucks 6; these trucks are controlled by a known suspension cable 5 wound on a drum 4 connected by a driving chain e<SP>1</SP> to a sprocket e on a shaft f having a pinion u engaging with sector teeth on the track unit B or B<SP>1</SP>. Thus, when the track unit pivots upwards to climb an obstacle the cable 5 is tightened and the trucks 6 lowered. The shaft f is further controlled by a shock-absorber cylinder having a radial vane w<SP>1</SP>, this cylinder also acts as a servomotor when required, being furnished with a controlling walve d, an inlet pipe 9 and exhaust port 10, so that the auxiliary tracks can be raised and lowered at will by means of the servomotors. Armouring vehicles. The vehicle is provided with armour having sloping sides as shown in Fig. 5.
Patent GB-1173151-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Thermoplastic Moulding Compositions
Inventor: PRICE DAVID WATKIN
IPC: C08L27/06
Filed: 1966-03-08
Abstract: 1,173,151. Fibrous composition. COAL INDUSTRY (PATENTS) Ltd. 3 March, 1967 [8 March, 1966], No. 10140/66. Addition to 1,011,481. Headings C3N and C3P. A thermoplastic moulding composition comprises finely-divided fibre-reinforced thermoplastic polymeric material; 30-70 wt. per cent coal-tar pitch; and 10-60 wt. per cent non- fibre-reinforced polyvinyl chloride, preferably plasticized. Exemplified compositions comprise 4.3-40.7 wt. per cent of fibre-reinforced thermoplastic, 4.5-8.8 wt. per cent of nitrile rubber, and 3.1-3.2 wt. per cent stabilizer.
Patent GB-101714-A (GB)
IPC: B60K17/16
Abstract: 101,714. Aoust, J. d'. Oct. 1, 1915, [Convention date]. Axle structures. - Driving-axles for cycle cars and light cars comprise a two-part shaft a, each part being provided with a disk b having bevelled edges c, between which is placed the driving-belt d. The shafts are carried on ball bearings f, j and are provided with stops e of tempered steel. The disks are enclosed by two cheeks p formed with strengthening-ribs o and sleeves k; a hinged cover encloses the peripheries of the cheeks.
Patent GB-564255-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to hydraulic cut-out devices
IPC: F16K17/10
Filed: 1942-07-22
Abstract: 564,255. Valves. PUGH, C. A., SAY, A. W., and PLESSEY CO., Ltd. July 22, 1942, No. 10273. [Class 135] The device comprises an inlet 24, an outlet 25 leading to a service pipe 43 past a non-return valve 45, a byepass passage 26, a pilot valve 15 and a byepass valve 21. Pressure in the service pipe is led to the chamber 40 through a passage having an adjustable valve 49, and at a certain value causes a plunger 41 to move the valves 15, 21 against the action of a spring 29, the movement being sufficient to open the valve 15 but not the valve 21. The liquid admitted to a chamber 35 operates a piston 37 so that its plunger 38 moves into the chamber 40. The intensified pressure thus produced acts on the plunger 41 to move the valves 15, 21 further so that the latter opens the byepass passage 26. The piston 37 has a bleed orifice 52 and the chamber 36 in which it works is connected to the passage 26 through an adjustable valve 51. In a modification, the byepass valve 21 is replaced by a valve hydraulically connected with the valve 15.
Patent GB-969071-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to optical viewing systems
Inventor: MACKENZIE IAN HUGH
IPC: G02B23/00
Filed: 1962-03-16
Abstract: 969,071. Viewing screens. BARR & STROUD Ltd. March 17, 1962, No, 10308/62. Heading G2J. An optical viewing system has a polished screen of translucent material extending at right angles to the optic axis of the system, the screen having optically deviating elements comprising ribs having plane sides and curved crests. As shown, the screen comprises a plate 10 having ribs 11, the crests 13 and troughs 14 having cylindrical surfaces and being joined by plane surfaces 12. The screen may be applied to a periscopic viewing system Figs 3, 4 (not shown).
Patent GB-964584-A (GB)
Title: Improved ampoule for use with a needleless hypodermic injector
Inventor: LOVE DOUGLAS STANLEY
IPC: A61M5/24
Filed: 1960-03-23
Abstract: 964,584. Hypodermic injection appliances. EXPRESS INJECTOR CO. Ltd. March 6, 1961 [March 23, 1960], No. 10352/60. Heading A5R. An ampoule for use in a needleless hypodermic injector comprises a stepped body of ductile material designed to be introverted to expel the contents. In the preferred form the cylindrical body 10 has a portion 13 of reduced diameter, with a step 12, adjacent its closed end, while its open end has an outwardly directed flange 11. The ampoule is filled and then closed by a plug 14 which is secured by a constricting ring 16 which is forced down against the flange 11. This plug has an axially placed tapering discharge duct 14. When used with the injection device described in Specification 964,585, the end of the reduced portion 13 is first introverted by a central plunger, so giving an initial high pressure ejection of medicament and, thereafter, the shoulder 12 is engaged by a tubular sleeve which introverts the whole body to provide steady ejection of the contents.
Patent GB-439014-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to modulated carrier wave systems
IPC: H03C5/04
Filed: 1935-04-03
Abstract: 439,014. Modulating systems. TELEFUNKEN GES. FUR DRAHTLOSE TELEGRAPHIE, 12, Hallesches Ufer, Berlin. April 3, 1935, No. 10376. Convention date, April 3, 1934. [Classes 39 (i) and 40 (v)] Modulation of a magnetron oscillator is effected by varying the direction of the magnetic field. As shown in Fig. 3, the splitanode magnetron V is mounted with its axis lying in the direction of the field of a permanent magnet or electromagnet M, and the modulating signal is applied to coils m which create a varying magnetic field in a direction perpendicular to the main field. The direction of the resultant field thus varies with the signal current through the coils m. Fig. 1 shows the manner in which oscillation amplitude varies with the angular shift of the magnetic field. For modulation by speech &c. the direct current through the coils m is adjusted so that operation takes place about a point P on the curve, whilst for keying points Q or R may be chosen. Instead of using auxiliary coils m, the main magnet M may be rocked or vibrated about an axis perpendicular to the valve axis, particularly for tone-frequency modulation, Fig. 2 (not shown). The coils m may be fixed to the valve envelope, or to a sheath surrounding it, and their magnetic circuit may be partially completed by a magnetic yoke. Specification 348,453 is referred to.
Patent GB-1270533-A (GB)
Title: Rotating mass for vibrators
Inventor: ATKINS DUNCAN CLARK
IPC: B06B1/16
Filed: 1968-03-04
Abstract: 1,270,533. Vibrators. E. P. ALLAM & CO. Ltd. 4 June, 1969 [4 March, 1968], No. 10430/68. Heading F2X. A variable inertia rotor for a plate vibrator has a mass 1 mounted on a rotatable shaft 2 and radially movable under centrifugal force and against a spring bias 5 from a first position when the shaft is stationary in which the centre of mass has only a small displacement from the axis of rotation to a second position when the shaft is rotating at the desired speed in which the centre of mass is displaced the required operating distance from the axis of rotation. The mass is guided by a pin 4 which is connected to the shaft (or mass) and abuts an adjustable screw 17 in the second operative position. The spring 5 may be replaced by a leaf spring secured in slots in the mass and partially wrapped about the shaft.
Patent GB-551332-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in methods of profile grinding and profile grinding machines
IPC: B24B27/00
Filed: 1941-08-18
Abstract: 551,332. Grinding tools, gauges &c. EDWARDS, E. R., and GRODZINSKI, P. Aug. 18, 1941, No. 10478. [Class 60] To generate profiles on gauges, tools &c. the workpiece is provided with a master hole and means for positioning it on the workholder of a profile-grinding machine, the masterhole being registered at a point in the machine serving as zero of a system of co-ordinates the grinding wheel being movable independently according to a rectangular or polar system of co-ordinates. The grinding edge of the tool is adjusted in relation to the zero along one system of co-ordinates while the other system is used to guide the tool in relation to the workpiece when forming the required profile. The grinding wheel 1, Fig. 1, is mounted on a bracket 4 on a slide 5 carrying the driving- motor 6. The slide 5 is mounted on a saddle 8 which slides in a circular V-groove the centre 8b of which lies under the point of contact of the grinding wheel 1 and the workpiece. Below the slide 5 another slide 9 is arranged, the base of which comprises a rotatable table 10 concentric with the point 8b and mounted in the upper slide 12 of a cross-slide system 13 carried on a base 14. The table 10 or slide 9 is provided with a centre hole for a mandrel 33 which is in register with the master hole in the workpiece, Figs. 11 and 12. The workpiece 2 is carried by a holder 15 mounted in a frame 16 reciprocated by a crank 17, while the spindle 9a is provided with a fine-adjustment mounting in the slide 9.
Patent GB-527226-A (GB)
Title: Air filter
IPC: B01D46/52
Filed: 1939-04-04
Abstract: 527,226. Filtering gases. POELMAN, A., and SCHNEIDER, R. April 4, 1939, No. 10490. Convention date, April 5, 1938. [Class 8 (ii)] A filter e.g. for toxic gases comprises a series of pleats formed from a sheet of paper with ridges a extending radially, the outer ends of the pleats being luted as at 8 to a curved surface formed by or carried in the container ; the hollow axis 3 is closed at the ends by metal plates, and the filter may be combined with a charcoal filter 10. The luting of pitch &c. may be applied evenly by rotating the container, to which a cap 17, Fig. 4, is applied, the filter being then pressed into position by a mandrel 24 pushed down by a handle 20 against spring pressure. The filter may be helical and the container cylindrical, or of elliptic section.
Patent GB-783455-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in a device for manufacturing labels
Inventor: DAHLBERG TORD OLAF RICKARD
IPC: B65C11/00
Filed: 1955-04-12
Abstract: 783,455. Price labels. KOOPERATIVE FORBUNDET EKONOMISK FORENING. April 12, 1955, No. 10516/55. Class 73 Adhesive price labels are made by means of a device comprising a holder 1, Fig. 1, for a reel 2 of transparent pressuresensitive adhesive tape 5 and having a guide 3 for a narrower strip of priceindicating paper 4, the tape 5 and strip 4 being drawn under a bridge guide 10 and over a ledge 7 so as to adhere together as shown in Fig. 3 and then torn off between the spaced printed frames on a cutting edge 8. The price on the strip 4 is read through the transparent tape which protects the strip 4. The strip 4 can be taken from a roll placed in the holder 1 and the device may be provided with mechanical feeding means.
Patent GB-105608-A (GB)
IPC: A47C17/165
Abstract: 105,608. Sales, M. A. April 18, 1916. Bedsteads convertible into seats. - A seat, couch, &c. convertible into a bedstead, comprises a base having telescopic extensions F<1>, F<2> on which rest three cushions C<0>, C<1>, C<2> hinged together at c<1>, c<2> so that they may be unfolded to rest on the extension. The back comprises members C<3>, C<4> hinged together at c<3>, the member C' being pivoted to the framing at c‹, so that they may be turned down to rest on the cushions C‹, C<1>, C<2>. A head rest S or receptacle for a pillow is pivoted to the member C' and is adjustable by means of a stay s and rack P. A space V is provided between the back members for bedding.