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Patent GB-2134023-A (GB)
Title: Welding contacts to a carrier
Inventor: THODE HORST
IPC: H01H11/04
Filed: 1983-12-09
Abstract: In a welding unit for welding preferably profiled contacts 19 to a carrier 20, individualized contacts are pushed through a correspondingly profiled guide tunnel to a position between a welding electrode 2 and the carrier 20. The guide tunnel is divided into a supply section 24 and a vertically offset delivery section 22 there being disposed between these sections a lifting punch 21 that has a through- going recess 211 for a single contact that corresponds in shape to the profile of the contact. The punch also has a central slot 212 on the side of the recess, this slot terminating in the recess and being used to admit the passage of a transporter rod 18 that slides in the direction towards the electrode. The lifting punch 21 may be moved transversely to the transporter rod 18 by an amount equal to the offset distance V between the guide tunnel sections to permit a single contact to be lifted from the supply section to the level of the delivery section. This configuration makes it possible to guide the contacts to the carrier with complete reliability and in a well- defined position and to let the transporter rod 18 execute relatively long strokes while maintaining minimum cycle times. As shown, the lifting punch 21 severs the contacts from fed profiled contact material 14. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2159698-A (GB)
Title: Cleaning device
Inventor: LEVISON BARRIE ABRAM DAVID
IPC: A46B11/04
Filed: 1984-05-08
Abstract: A cleaning device comprises a work head (1) carried by a handle (2) which constitutes a reservoir for a cleaning liquid (3) to be dispensed by way of the head (1) during use of the device, the reservoir (2) communicating with the head (1) by way of a valve (8) which is normally closed but which is opened on engagement of the head (1) with a surface to be cleaned. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2142024-A (GB)
Title: Terphenyl derivatives
Inventor: MATSUMOTO KEN
IPC: C07C43/205
Filed: 1984-06-21
Abstract: This invention provides for certain novel terphenyl derivatives, their pharmaceutical formulations, and a method of treating pain, fever, thrombosis, inflammation, and arthritis.
Patent GB-2145652-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of insulated wires
Inventor: ROSE JOHN
IPC: H01B13/14
Filed: 1984-07-17
Abstract: An electric wire with insulation of oriented polymeric material is made by first forming a preform with a metal core and an extruded covering of an appropriate polymeric material larger than the required size. The preform is then drawn to size through one or more one reducing dies, so reducing core and covering together and producing the elongation required to effect orientation. The polymer should have a yield strength equal to or greater than that of the core metal, and the process must be performed at an appropriate temperature, but ambient temperature is often satisfactory. Given suitable polymeric materials, the finished product can be annealed and stress-relieved in one operation. The wire is preferably of copper or aluminium, and the insulation is preferably a polyparaphenylene ether-ketone, having substantially two ether linkages for each ketone linkage.
Patent GB-2163527-A (GB)
Title: Diversion valves
Inventor: TURNER ROBERT
IPC: F16L41/00
Filed: 1984-08-02
Abstract: A diversion valve for recovery of waste water comprises a waste pipe containing an apertured member forming the end of a conduit which passes through and is secured to the wall of the waste pipe. Rotation of the member causes it to oppose the flow of water through the waste pipe and to divert the flow through the aperture into the conduit. Preferably the conduit is supported rotatably by the wall of the waste pipe and rotation of the member is effected by rotation of the conduit. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2153660-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for cleaning textile materials
Inventor: SAUDINOS JUAN MANUEL ESTEBAN
IPC: C11D3/00
Filed: 1984-08-15
Abstract: Apparatus for cleaning textile materials such as carpets and upholstery in situ, especially in public service vehicles, comprises a mobile cleaning fluid delivery unit (2) and a mobile suction unit (1) both operable by compressed air, and a cleaning head (7) having a suction nozzle connected to the suction unit via hose (5) and a spray nozzle connected to the cleaning fluid delivery unit via hose (6). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2160714-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to electric motors
Inventor: SANDERS ANTHONY JONATHON
IPC: H02K5/14
Filed: 1984-09-07
Abstract: An end cap assembly for an electric motor includes a plastics body and an electrical impedance (21A) which is mounted on the plastics body and to which electrical connection is made. The plastics body includes a resilient plastics clamping arm (24) which is resiliently deformed by the impedance (21A) and which bears against the impedance clamping it to the body. This provides a very simple but reliable and effective way to secure the impedance on the end cap assembly. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2167171-A (GB)
Title: Weighted drums
Inventor: WILLIAMS KENNETH ALAN
IPC: D06F49/02
Filed: 1984-11-14
Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a drum suitable for use in a spin-drier, the drum is made by injection moulding from two drum-halves 11 and 12 subsequently joined together. In the moulding of drum-half 11, a channel is formed at one end by a flange 17 and inturned lip 18, which channel is subsequently filled with a relatively dense curable material, such as an epoxy resin loaded with finely-divided stone particles. The mass of the weight required for the drum is predetermined and resin is added to the channel until the total weight of the drum reaches a required value. Preferably the curable material employed is self-levelling. Alternatively a moving nozzle may be used to apply a viscous resin material, and controlled to form an even annular body. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2151460-A (GB)
Title: Adhesive closure system for disposable diapers
Inventor: LINGERTAT ARNOLD
IPC: A61F5/44
Filed: 1984-12-18
Abstract: An improved closure system for a disposable diaper is provided by directly securing pressure sensitive adhesive 28 to exposed portions of the backing sheet and releasably retaining the closures in a storage position (as in Fig. 2) by detachably securing the pressure sensitive adhesive 28 to release means 32 inwardly of the pressure sensitive adhesive. The release means 32 may be a strip of release paper 34 or an area of a suitable release composition. The release means may be provided on the facing layer of the diaper, or on the backing layer thereof. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2154456-A (GB)
Title: Exercising apparatus
Inventor: GRIMMITT DERRICK JOHN
IPC: A63B24/00
Filed: 1985-02-15
Abstract: The apparatus comprises a member movable by a user against a variable load and means signalling to an output device the magnitude of the load and the speed of the movable member. An exercise cycle embodiment has a band brake acting on a wheel driven by the user. A handle 44 is provided for adjusting the tension in the brake band and a potentiometer 53 provides an electrical signal representing the force exerted by the user. A transducer provides a signal representing the speed at which the braked wheel is driven by the user. These signals are combined to provide an output representing to the user the power applied by the user to the apparatus. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2172373-A (GB)
Title: Load lifting and support device
Inventor: CHARITY MICHAEL
IPC: F16F9/06
Filed: 1985-02-27
Abstract: A load lifting and support device comprising a chamber bounded by walls and two ends which has a piston 24, movable barrier means 30 and a valve 23 located therein which define four compartments. The first compartment 28 is defined by the piston and one end of the chamber (and is filled with a gas). The second compartment 29, which is defined by the piston and the valve, and the third compartment 32, which is defined by the valve and the barrier means, and both filled with a substantially incompressible material. The fourth compartment 33, which is defined by the barrier means and the other end of the chamber, is filled with a gas under pressure. The device is particularly useful as a height adjustment device for chairs and other pieces of furniture. To raise the height, the valve 23 is opened and the gas pressure in compartment 33 lifts the chair. With the valve closed the load is supported by the incompressible fluid in compartment 29. This may be a gel, a thixotropic material or a rheopectic material. The movable barrier may be a floating piston in an adjacent or concentric cylinder. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2157367-A (GB)
Title: Device for influencing the fuel delivery of an injection pump
Inventor: WORTMANN WILLI
IPC: F02D11/04
Filed: 1985-04-09
Abstract: Depending on the deflection of an accelerator pedal, a delivery control lever 2 of the injection pump 1 is deflected by an actuator 5. To achieve an emergency driving operation in the event of failure of the actuator 5, the first actuator 5 is overridden by a second actuator 14 which deflects the lever 2 into a position in which the internal combustion engine is operative within a lower load range. A hand- operated valve 18 when actuated admits compressed air into the actuator 14 which moves a sleeve 10 into engagement with a sleeve 7 linked to the lever 2. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2160857-A (GB)
Title: Explosive compositions
Inventor: SHANN PETER CHRISTIAN
IPC: C06B47/14
Filed: 1985-07-01
Abstract: The invention provides packaged explosive which comprises ingredients to form an explosive composition and a propelling ingredient of the compressed gaseous type the foam type or of the aerosol type dispersed in a liquid medium in a suitable container, the arrangement being such that the explosive material can be dispensed to a required position by the expansion of the propelling ingredient when required.
Patent GB-2177809-A (GB)
Title: Full or half frame exposure
Inventor: SO CHARLIE
IPC: G03B17/02
Filed: 1985-07-15
Abstract: On lateral movement of a knob 103, two partial masking doors 105 are opened for changing the exposure from half to full frame and a pivotally movable plate 112 is removed from potential engagement with two opposed upper cam lobes 203 mounted on a film winding spindle 204, a laterally movable plate 110 remaining in potential engagement with a single lower cam lobe 203, whereby the film advance is changed from half to full rate. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2179482-A (GB)
Title: A two-step alarm disarming device
Inventor: SHIH-MING HWANG
IPC: B60R25/10
Filed: 1985-08-20
Abstract: In an alarm for an enclosed space (eg a vehicle theft alarm) an externally accessible keyswitch (or the like) achieves temporary disarming to allow an authorised person sufficient access to an internal arming/disarming arrangement. The externally accessible device may be remotely actuable (eg by radio). The internal device may be associated with the ignition switch. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2185501-A (GB)
Title: Channel members which replace roof rafters
Inventor: GREAVES FRANK V
IPC: E04B7/02
Filed: 1985-10-11
Abstract: At least some of the rafters in a roof construction are replaced by channel members 1 attached together in side-by-side relation, with the major axis of each channel extending down the slope of the roof and with the outer part of the roof 4, 5, 6, 7, attached to the upstanding edge portions of the channels. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2182206-A (GB)
Title: Adaptable transmitter and antenna arrangement
Inventor: MANTON RICHARD GEORGE
IPC: H01Q25/00
Filed: 1985-10-23
Abstract: An array of dipoles (12) is fed from a plurality of low power transmitters (T1 to T8) by way of a network of hybrids (H1 to H8). Different combinations of transmitter phases cause the power to be routed to different groups of the dipoles (12) to enable the same array to simulate a plurality of different arrays. The dipoles are in eight pairs A1 to A8 and, in a first mode power is routed equally to all dipole pairs, in a second mode the power is routed to the lower four dipole pairs A2, A4, A6 and A8 only, in a third mode only to two columns of dipole pairs A3, A4, A5 and A6 and in a fourth mode to two dipole pairs A4 and A6 only. Although switches may be employed for various purposes, such as establishing the transmitter phases, slewing the antenna beam and interrupting feeders which should carry no power, switching is at low power levels only. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2174160-A (GB)
Title: Articulated vehicle braking system
Inventor: SMITH JOHN
IPC: B62D53/08
Filed: 1986-03-03
Abstract: The system reduces the tendency of the articulated vehicle to jacknife upon wheel braking and comprises at least two brake portions, one on the trailer unit and one on the tractor unit, brought into contact when wheel braking is effected. As shown, a coupling comprises plates 18,20 attached to tractor and trailer units respectively-upper plate 20 is bolted to chassis of trailer unit and has brake lining material attached to it while plate 18 is hinged and is operable by hydraulic jacks 22 connected by pipelines 24 and connected to the wheel braking system. When that is operated, plate 18 contacts the lining to restrain pivoting about a vertical axis. Steel plates 18 or 20 may be replaced by a ring-lower plate or ring may be split into portions each operated by independent jack-lining material may be on lower plate. Air operated rams may be used with pneumatic brakes. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2173124-A (GB)
Title: Removing particles from gas
Inventor: KIRSCH HENRY
IPC: B01D46/38
Filed: 1986-03-27
Abstract: Solid particles are removed from a hot gas by passing the gas through a bed of solid particles (13) to fluidise the bed. Water is added to the bed (14) to maintain the temperature of the bed below the boiling point of water and to maintain the moisture content of the bed at between 5% and 25% by mass. The water may be sprayed (14) on to the bed or may be provided in a paste made of solid particles withdrawn from the bed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2190991-A (GB)
Title: Heat pump for solvent cleaning apparatus
Inventor: LEWIS JOHN
IPC: F25B49/00
Filed: 1986-05-10
Abstract: A solvent cleaning apparatus is disclosed which includes a heat pump 22, pressure sensing means, 34, for detecting pressure increases in the heat pump 22 and disconnecting the pump from its power supply when the pressure in the pump increases above a predetermined value, switch means 40, 42 for enabling the sensing means 34 only during rapid mode of the heat pump 22 and indicator means for indicating excess pressure during rapid mode. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2175385-A (GB)
Title: A refrigerated counter of the tray type with a clear front wall
Inventor: COSTAN ALBERTO
IPC: A47F3/04
Filed: 1986-05-13
Abstract: A refrigerated counter for deep- frozen goods is of the tray type with a top opening 3 for access to the goods and a clear front wall 5. It has a clear sheet 10 mounted on the tray parallel to the front wall at a set distance therefrom; thus, between the sheet and the front wall, there is defined an interspace open to the tray at the top and bottom. Thus, an air flow is established across the front wall to prevent fogging. A channel member 6 affixed to the upper edge 7 of the front wall 5 houses a lamp 9. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2192100-A (GB)
Title: Connecting electrical components
Inventor: SHAW DAVID MARTIN
IPC: H01H1/58
Filed: 1986-06-30
Abstract: Terminal connectors of a switch (1) are adapted to be connected to a printed circuit board (7) by pins (5) which replace terminal screws. The board carries terminal pins (9) to make further connections to the switch and physically support it. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2194160-A (GB)
Title: Board game
Inventor: CHAPHEKAR PREM
IPC: A63F3/00
Filed: 1986-07-25
Abstract: A board game simulates the process of setting up and financing a business and involves two boards marked out as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 with different sections representing set-up of a business, obtaining of premises, obtaining of staff, marketing, and finance. Each section is in the form of a flow chart with positions along the chart on which tokens can be placed and moved as the game progresses. Some of the positions can only be moved from by the throwing of a number on the dice which is one of a selected number of possible dice throws in dependence on the coding of that position. There are means in the game for changing the coding of the position for at least the player concerned as the game progresses. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2179718-A (GB)
Title: Clutch drive mechanism for powered garden machines
Inventor: YOUNG WILLIAM G
IPC: A01D43/16
Filed: 1986-08-01
Abstract: A powered garden machine, such as a cylinder lawnmower, includes a clutch drive mechanism through which drive is transmitted from a motor to a first rotatable garden tool (e.g. a cutting cylinder), the mechanism being responsive to the engagement of an auxiliary tool (eg edging shears) for disengaging the drive to the first tool and transferring the drive to the auxiliary tool. The clutch drive mechanism comprises pulley 15, driving plate 17, having four angularly spaced flanges bent at 90 DEG  on its outer periphery and four similar flanges on its inner perimeter, and driving sleeve 24. The clutch pulley 15, driven by the motor via a toothed belt engaging outside diameter teeth 50 (Fig. 2, not shown) on the pulley, drives the cutting cylinder when the edging tool is not fitted. On fitting the tool (shown in housing 61) gear wheel 13 is urged against driving plate 17 engaging with it while disengaging it from driving sleeve 24. (Plate 17 being axially movable inwardly relative to pulley 15 against the bias of a leaf spring 18.) Drive is thus transmitted from the pulley 15 to gear wheel 13 to drive the edging tool alone. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2185913-A (GB)
Title: Sizing filament yarn
Inventor: VOSWINCKEL GERHARD
IPC: D06B3/10
Filed: 1986-10-28
Abstract: In apparatus for sizing filament yarn, in order to save separate stretching assemblies, to ensure a defined stretching temperature and to be able to work with minimum possible speed in the size application, a stretching is provided in the wet area (10) between the squeezing mechanism (9) of the sizing trough (8) and the subsequent cylinder drier (11). This is achieved by driving the cylinder drier at a speed exceeding the transport speed in the squeezer. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2198736-A (GB)
Title: Photopolymerisable material
Inventor: HAUBOLD DR WOLFGANG
IPC: G03F7/027
Filed: 1986-12-19
Abstract: A photopolymerisable material comprising a light-sensitive layer that contains compounds with N-oxyl structural units corresponding to the formula I   <IMAGE> in which R<1> -R<4> may be the same or different and each represents H or alkyl, which are present in the layer, as polymer chain segments or substituents of a polymer, free and/or fixed by way of Coulomb reciprocal The photopolymerisable material can be used for recording information, as a reproduction material, for the manufacture of printed circuits and relief images for printing plates, or for the manufacture of image-wise cured coatings.
Patent GB-2190213-A (GB)
Title: Visual display unit with a shield and indirect viewing system
Inventor: MORLEY HUGH BARRIE
IPC: G02B27/02
Filed: 1987-04-21
Abstract: A visual display unit 11 has a screen 12 and a user is protected from electromagnetic radiation by a shield wall 14 and sides 15 and an optical system of plane mirrors 17, 18 enables a user to see the display indirectly. The mirror may be adjustable in inclination to the vertical and the mirror 18 can be moved fore-and-aft in recesses 22. The shield may take the form of a desk with the unit 11 and mirror 17 beneath the desk top and mirror 18 above. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2205194-A (GB)
Title: Tape loading device
Inventor: YAMANAKA TAKASHI
IPC: G11B15/26
Filed: 1987-11-18
Abstract: In loading a tape a tape guide 6 moves along a path 7, passing in front of an erasing head 14 carried on a movable member 12 which retracts the head to keep it clear of tape loading. A driving means 17 holds the movable member 12 in a position in which the erasing head 14 does not interfere with the tape guide 6 as it moves along the path 7. When the tape guide 6 has passed by the erasing head 14, the driving means 17 releases the movable member 12 to let the erasing head 14 move into contact with the tape (22) in its loaded position. Either a mechanism associated with loading gear 11 controls the erase head, or such control can be effected from a pinch roller driving mechanism (Fig 3). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2212389-A (GB)
Title: Display device
Inventor: GILBEY MARK TERENCE
IPC: A47F5/00
Filed: 1987-11-19
Abstract: A device for displaying photographic, printed or written information comprises a planar member (4) and a holder (H). The holder comprises two end members (1, 2) which bear resiliently against opposite lateral side edges of the planar member, in order to support it. The arrangement is such that a variety of relative orientations of the planar member to the holder are selectable. The device is suitable for use in a shelf edge location, (Fig 3) or free standing (Fig 2). At least one restraining member (5) which is slidably mounted on end members (1, 2) of the holder may be provided to hold the end members (1, 2) parallel to each other, and to hold the planar member in a selected position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2215012-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle with optional hydraulic transmission
Inventor: JANKEL ROBERT
IPC: B60K17/356
Filed: 1988-02-11
Abstract: The power driven multi-wheeled vehicle, of the kind in which power normally applied to one wheel or a pair of wheels can selectively also be applied to more than one wheel or a pair of wheels to increase the tractive effort when required, comprises an engine (1) and gearbox (2) through which one or a pair of wheels (R) is driven, and an hydraulic pump (6) driven from an engine gearbox output shaft (3) and forming part of an hydraulic circuit which includes at least one hydraulic motor (M) associated with at least one other wheel or pair of wheels (F) for driving the same when the hydraulic pump (P) is operative. The mechanical drive may be to the front wheels instead of the rear (Fig 2). Pressure relief valves enable wheels on the same axle to be driven at different speeds and the motors may freewheel in excess of a road speed of thirty miles per hour. The hydraulic transmission is controlled by electronically actuated valves. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2265443-A (GB)
Title: Fin assembly for a projectile
Inventor: GURNEY DAVID WILLIAM
IPC: F42B10/18
Filed: 1988-04-14
Abstract: A fin assembly 12 includes four tail fins 14 pivotally mounted on an axially slidable block 24. The fins are deployable from a stowed position, in which they lie generally parallel to the longitudinal axis of the associated projectile, to a laterally extended position. Each fin is connected by a link 30 to a pivot point 28 which is axially fixed with respect to the projectile, whereby rotation of the fin moves the link to draw the block 24 forwardly. Deployment of the fins is therefore accompanied by a forward shift of their pivotal axes 26. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2228626-A (GB)
Title: Induction motor having effectively DC current in the rotor
Inventor: WARNER RICHARD JAMES
IPC: H02K17/16
Filed: 1988-08-05
Abstract: The motor comprises at least one ring shaped Stator (1, 2) made with spirally wound and slotted steel strip wound on a core 3, 4, the rotor 5 including a homogeneous iron ring 15 which may include conductive rings 14, 16 of copper or aluminium the rotor running on bearings 8 around shaft 9. The Stator windings produce rotating or pulsating magnetic flux which passes axially through the Stator and air gaps and induces effectively DC current in the rotor. At a constant air gap flux density the Rotors produce a torque approximately proportional to the Rotor slip, thus creating a starting torque several times greater than full load torque. Alternatively the rotor may comprise an iron or mild steel ring cast around with aluminium which also forms cooling fins. Multiple stator/rotor arrangements and power output configurations are disclosed. <IMAGE>