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Patent GB-2170084-A (GB)
Title: Fishing rod
Inventor: LOWE PETER FREDERICK
IPC: A01K87/00
Filed: 1986-01-29
Abstract: A fishing rod has a battery in the butt selection of the rod, in whose spigot 8 is mounted a lamp holder 7 with a lamp 9 having an integral lens 10. In the lower end of the tip section 11 of the rod is a rubber bung 12 with a central aperture 13 into which fits the exposed end of an optic fibre 14 which extends to a tip end 17 adjacent the tip end 18 of the tip section which is translucent. Intermediate areas 16 of the tip section 11 are also translucent and the optic fibre 14 is rendered light-transmitting in these areas. in operation, the battery is connected to the lamp to power it and provide light to the lower end of the optic fibre 14. Light emerges from the totally internal reflective portions of the optic fibre through the areas 16 and 18 and provide the user with a clear indication of the changing positions of the tip section of the rod as pressure is applied to the line. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2179728-A (GB)
Title: Display cabinet
Inventor: FONDEL FRANZ
IPC: A47F3/04
Filed: 1986-02-03
Abstract: An air-conditioned display cabinet comprises a plurality of horizontal shelves for displaying commodities which are sensitive to heat, e.g. vegetables, fruit, chocolate. A horizontal stream of cooled air flows over the upperside of each shelf, so that the displayed commodities are cooled by it. All of the horizontal air streams merge into a vertical stream of cooled air, which flows from a slot 7 and between the top of the cabinet and a fan 4 disposed near the base of the cabinet, and which passes in front of the free ends of all of the shelves. A part 2 of a refrigerating equipment for cooling the flowing air is housed near the top of the cabinet, and another part, e.g. an evaporator 3, is disposed near the base of the cabinet, each such part being in a separate compartment. The refrigerating equipment is switched on and off respectively by a temperature detector 20, which is disposed outside the display cabinet in the sales room in which the cabinet is located, in response to the sales room temperature rising and falling respectively about a threshold temperature which is adjustable between 12 and 18 degrees Centigrade. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2185789-A (GB)
Title: A method of cold rolling and profiling rings
Inventor: BARTKO KRISTINE
IPC: B21H1/12
Filed: 1986-03-27
Abstract: An internal or external annular surface of a ring which by cold-rolling is to be profiled with accompanying tangential expansion and substantial diametrical enlargement of the ring is preliminarily profiled by a metal-shaping process other than cold-rolling, the preliminary profile having distinctly defined lateral peripheral edges spaced from the lateral walls of the workpiece. The cold-rolling is effected by a cold rolling tool having formed on the working surface thereof facing the preliminarily profiled workpiece surface a profile which is shaped to make local contact with each of the edges of the preliminary profile of the ring and thereby begin compressively stressing the ring by the local contact before the cold rolling conforms the profile of the workpiece to the profile of the tool sufficiently to substantially increase the contact of the tool profile with the workpiece profile. The compressive stressing mitigates tensile stressing accompanying the aforementioned tangential expansion and substantial diametrical enlargement of the ring, thereby preventing the onset of cracking and other defects of the workpiece as the workpiece is cold-rolled.
Patent GB-2174896-A (GB)
Title: Hair treatment device
Inventor: BOWERS ALAN JAMES
IPC: A45D20/48
Filed: 1986-04-30
Abstract: A hair treatment device incorporates a heater energised by a rechargeable electrical storage cell. The device is in the form of a curling tong, which is convertable into a brush by the removable fitment of a brush attachment. A "cool cover" is adapted to slide over and enclose the tong and also the brush attachment when fitted. When the "cool cover" is fitted it moves an "on/off" switch to its "off" position. The hair treatment device may alternatively simply be a rechargeable brush with or without a removable brush attachment. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2175658-A (GB)
Title: A disc brake
Inventor: BRANDENSTEIN MANFRED
IPC: F16D65/56
Filed: 1986-05-13
Abstract: A sleeve 21 for use in a disc brake has a tubular portion 22 and a flange 23, and apertures 24 for the flow of fluid therethrough, which apertures extend into the tubular portion and the flange. The disc brake can be operated hydraulically or mechanically, and, in the former mode, will effect wear adjustment. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2186297-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to tufting machines
Inventor: BARDSLEY HAROLD BRIAN
IPC: D05C15/18
Filed: 1987-01-07
Abstract: The invention proposes that the yarn feed to the needles of a tufting machine provide an amount of yarn appropriate to the insertion of a diagonal back stitch such as arises on lateral shift of a tufting needle relative to a backing fabric during the tufting operation. Various arrangements are disclosed, including one involving driving the yarn feed roller 11 at a requisite one of a range of possible speeds by coupling the said roller (11) to a drive shaft (12) by a drive transmission including a selected one of two drive coupling means (15, 16) of different respective gearing ratios. Others involve a variable speed motor, a yarn brake or a yarn constant tension device used in conjunction with a conventional jerker system. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2191545-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to inflators
Inventor: LARDNER GEORGE E
IPC: F04B43/00
Filed: 1987-05-21
Abstract: An inflator comprises a resilient hollow body member (12) having an input (20) and an output (22). Check valves (24) and (26) are provided in the input (20) and output (22) respectively to prevent fluid flow out of the hollow body member (12) via the input (20) and to prevent fluid flow into the hollow body member (12) via the output (22). By squeezing and releasing the hollow body member (12) fluid in the hollow body member (12) is forced out of the output (22) only and fluid is drawn into the hollow body member (12) via input (20) only. The hollow body member may be formed of two injection molded halves joined together and the inflator is useful both for inflating and deflating life rafts, sphygmomanometer cuffs and the like. To assist in positively deflating articles, the input end (20) may be provided with an adaptor sleeve (38) to fit certain commonly used valves. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2189805-A (GB)
Title: Selective processing of gases containing olefins by the mehra process
Inventor: MEHRA YUV R
IPC: C10L3/10
Filed: 1986-08-15
Abstract: A gas-liquid extractive stripping process which uses at least one preferential physical solvent in at least one solvent loop, each loop passing through at least two unit operations: extractive-stripping and distillation. At least the first extractive-stripping operation may additionally comprise a rectification section on top of the extraction section. Three products are made from streams of thermally cracked gases or refinery gases: a hydrogen-rich gas stream, a methane-rich gas stream, and a C2=+ hydrocarbons stream which is the feed stream for the conventional fractionation train of an olefins manufacturing facility. Ethylene can be economically produced from the C2=+ hydrocarbons product stream at a recovery of at least 99.5% and a purity of at least 99.9%.
Patent GB-2202976-A (GB)
Title: Method of handling disk sector errors in cache
Inventor: DIXON JERRY DUANE
IPC: G06F12/08
Filed: 1987-12-10
Abstract: In a DASD caching system, in which pages of sectors of data are stored by reading in a desired sector and prefetching a plurality of adjacent sectors for later access, errors in disk storage media cause error signals to be generated. Such errors are handled by storing indications of which sectors have errors and which do not, and accessing such indications in response to later requests for such sectors. Such indications are stored in each page in the cache. Further, a history is maintained of which pages and sectors therein, were placed in the cache in the past.
Patent GB-2215446-A (GB)
Title: Dispenser for dispensing cryogenic liquid
Inventor: MILLER JEREMY PAUL
IPC: F17C9/00
Filed: 1988-02-29
Abstract: A dispenser for cryogenic liquid comprising a vacuum insulated vessel (2) which is provided with a dispenser tube (10). The dispenser tube (10) is heated in use by an electric heater (11). Sufficient heat is supplied to achieve film boiling on the inner surface of the dispenser tube (10). Flow of cryogenic liquid from the vacuum insulated vessel (2) into the dispenser tube (10) is controlled by a tapered valve member (14) which is biased downwardly by a spring (15) and which is connected to a permanent magnet (16) disposed in a coil (17). The tapered valve member (14) can be driven upwardly or downwardly according to the sense in which a direct current is applied to the coil (17). A gas relief tube (18) is provided to vent gas from the dispenser tube (10) intermediate the tapered valve member (14) and the outlet of the dispenser tube (10). The gas relief tube (18) conveys gas to the space above the cryogenic liquid, for example liquid nitrogen, in the vacuum insulated vessel (2). The dispenser has particular utility in high speed canning and bottling lines.
Patent GB-2213332-A (GB)
Title: Power control for an inductor heating system
Inventor: OWEN ARTHUR RONALD
IPC: H05B6/06
Filed: 1988-07-04
Abstract: An induction heating coil 111 is connected in series with a first electronic switching means 224, 225, 226 between first and third lines R,T of a 3-phase A.C. supply RST, a capacitor 113 is connected in series with a second electronic switching means 115, 116 across first and second lines R,S of the supply, an inductor 114 is connected in series with a third electronic switching means 117, 118 across second and third lines S,T of the supply, and to reduce transients at each start up of the heater, the first switching means 224, 225, 226 is rendered conductive after the second and third switching means. Initially one of thyristors 117, 118 is fired at a crest of the voltage between the S and T phases to connect inductor 114. Thyristors 117, 118 are thereafter fired alternately at zero-crossings. After a few cycles of the supply, one of thyristors 115, 116 is fired at a zero crossing of the R and S phases to connect capacitor 113, and thereafter thyristors 115, 116 are fired alternately at zero crossings. After a further few cycles, thyristor 224 is fired at a predetermined non-zero phase angle of the R and T phases to connect the heating coil 111 via a current limiting resistor 219 and then thyristors 225, 226 are fired alternately at zero crossings to energise the coil 111 with a burst of A.C. cycles. The sequence is repeated prior to each such burst. Capacitor 113 may alternatively be connected before inductor 114. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2220449-A (GB)
Title: Cryopump
Inventor: AMOS RICHARD DEREK
IPC: F04B37/08
Filed: 1988-07-09
Abstract: A cryopump includes a two-stage cryogenerator in which a cryopanel 8 is mounted on and in thermal contact with the second stage 6 and a radiation shield 10 is mounted on but is thermally separated from the first stage 4 by means of a gasket 20 of insulating material. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2207495-A (GB)
Title: Drying agricultural material
Inventor: HOARE CHRISTOPHER ROBERT
IPC: F26B9/10
Filed: 1988-07-20
Abstract: A drying tube for drying or ventilating grain comprising separable hollow elongate body parts 1,2 one of which has a closed tapered end portion 3 for insertion into a pile of grain, the other end of the tube being attached to an air pump. The body has slots 10 to permit the passage of air into or out of the grain. When the air is blown into the grain it may be heated so as to improve the drying. The drying tube may be inserted into the pile of grain before the air pump is attached. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2224053-A (GB)
Title: Mining method
Inventor: MACLEOD COLIN JOHN
IPC: E21C25/58
Filed: 1988-08-23
Abstract: A process for mining coal in an unsupported manner utilizes a multiplicity of augered or otherwise bored holes 8 formed by an auger or other form of cutter 4 discharging its cut material on to a conveyor 5 and ultimately further on to a main conveyor 6 such holes 8 following a series of pilot holes 1 along which in umbilical 14 fashion, power, services and pulling equipment may be provided and which when spaced a working pitch 7 apart leave pillars 9 of unworked coal as roof supports which can subsequently be utilized by gasification. Holes 8 may also be used for storage of waste material, and may or may not be later gasified. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2223949-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for functional electrical stimulation
Inventor: POURNEZAM MAJID
IPC: A61N1/36
Filed: 1988-09-08
Abstract: In a two channel functional electrical stimulator, each channel has a transformer T1, T2, receiving high frequency pulses from a common HF generator IC2 according to a low frequency gating generator IC1. Two manually-operated switches are effectively connected to generator IC1 via sockets SO3, SO4, for ON/OFF control of the channels and are associated with ramp circuits R18/DI1/R8/C11 and R16/DI2/R9/C12 so that the output signal from each channel is switched between ON and OFF in a ramp manner. A three-position mode-control switch SW2 is also effectively connected to generator IC1 to establish three different output conditions of generator IC1 and when switch SW2 is switched between modes the ramp circuits R18/CI1/R8/C11 and R16/DI2/R9/C12 impose a ramp response on the output signal from each channel whilst time delay circuits C1/R6 and C1/R20 provide a time delay in implementation of the ramp response. The pulse frequencies of generators IC1 and IC2 are variable. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2210638-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for producing fancy yarns, in particular flame effect yarns
Inventor: FELBER CHRISTIAN
IPC: D02G3/34
Filed: 1988-10-07
Abstract: Two two-belt draw frames (7, 8) are arranged in V-form with respect to one another in the cross-section of the machine, and each is associated with a plurality of driven backing rollers (9, 10; 16, 17) extending over a plurality of twisting stations and has a plurality of pressure rollers (11, 12; 18, 19) associated with the backing rollers and provided separately for each draw frame (7, 8). The pressure rollers of each draw frame are mounted on a separate pressure roller carrier (13, 20) which can be swung open. The pressure roller carriers and the pressure rollers are arranged in each case on the sides of the backing rollers which face away from one another, so that the pressure roller carrier (13) of the outer draw frame (7) can be swung open towards the outside (A) of the apparatus and the pressure roller carrier (20) of the inner draw frame (8) can be swung open towards the inside (I) of the apparatus. A common pair of exit rollers is provided for both draw frames at the exit thereof. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2225627-A (GB)
Title: Dye marking system
Inventor: SIMPSON GEOFFREY M
IPC: F42B12/40
Filed: 1988-10-25
Abstract: The system comprises a plurality of normally spherical containers 30, 30' which are held in a cartridge 10 and can be fired at a target upon ignition of propellant charge 20. Disc 26 acts as a piston to expel the containers, damage thereto being prevented by shock absorbent pads 28, 34. The charge housing 22 seals against the inside surface of the cartridge 10. The containers are made of thin-walled PVC such that they break easily on contact with clothing so that the dye is dispersed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2211174-A (GB)
Title: Cartons
Inventor: WONNACOTT ROGER JOSEPH
IPC: B65D5/46
Filed: 1988-12-16
Abstract: A contents-viewing aperture (50) of a carton blank (100) of stiff but foldable sheet material is reinforced by lengths (125, 126) of reinforcing material stuck on or incorporated in the sheet material to flank the aperture in the erected carton. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2214199-A (GB)
Title: Splinting bandages
Inventor: PEARCE RICHARD HUGH
IPC: D04B/
Filed: 1989-01-19
Abstract: A knitted substrate suitable for use in a resin-coated, water-hardenable orthopaedic splinting bandage is described. The substrate comprises inelastic fibres being incorporated in the substrate in the length direction. In a preferred substrate the low modulus fibre is a multifilament polypropylene and the elastic fibre is a polyurethane yarn. Conformable orthopaedic bandages employing the substrate are also described.
Patent GB-2229585-A (GB)
Title: Coupling for an electric distribution track
Inventor: WOODGATE TERENCE ALAN
IPC: F21V21/34
Filed: 1989-03-23
Abstract: A coupling for an electric distribution track includes a track (1) with a channel having an inner wall carrying a conductor (10) and side walls (6, 7) with inturned flanges (8, 9), an elongate connector rod (2) with a screw threaded end through which a contact (16) projects and a nut (18) which engages behind the flanges and presses the end of the connector and the contact against the track conductor.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2230375-A (GB)
Title: Solid state training devices
Inventor: PETRIE MICHAEL
IPC: G09B23/18
Filed: 1989-03-23
Abstract: A solid state training device has a chassis into which can be fitted a plurality of interchangeable printed circuit boards (PCB), each defining a logical division of the circuit. For training purposes, in use, one or more of the PCBs is arranged to contain a known (to an instructor) fault.
Patent GB-2243730-A (GB)
Title: An electric motor braking apparatus and method for braking a rotating roller
Inventor: KUEPPERS ERNST WOLFGANG
IPC: H02P3/24
Filed: 1991-03-20
Abstract: In an apparatus for braking a rotating roller, for example a cylinder, on a spinning preparation machine, for example a bale opener, cleaner or carding machine, an electrically operated braking device for the roller is provided. In order to provide a braking apparatus that allows the slowing down time of the roller that is to be braked to be reduced while adapting to the braking conditions, and that is free of wear and maintenance, there is used as the drive motor 1 for the roller an asynchronous motor the stator winding of which is connected by way of a switch-over device 2, 6 to a source of alternating current 3 and to a device 7 for generating direct current, the switch-over device 2, 6 being capable of switching over from the source of alternating current 3 to the device 7 for generating direct current, or vice versa. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2244631-A (GB)
Title: Water bed heater
Inventor: STINE CLIFFORD R
IPC: A61G7/05
Filed: 1991-05-15
Abstract: A water bed heater (30) comprises an elongate heater cable (40) consisting of spaced wire conductors (40a, 40b) separated by a continuous layer of positive temperature coefficient material (40C) surrounded by an insulating sheath (40d). The cable (40) is disposed in a tortuous configuration and supported by an envelope of flexible sheets (56, 58), which in turn may be enclosed within a PVC envelope (not shown). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2246927-A (GB)
Title: Compensating for dark current in a still video camera
Inventor: TANI NOBUHIRO
IPC: H04N5/376
Filed: 1991-05-28
Abstract: In a still CCD camera which is shuttered AP and in which, following dumping of accumulated charges to a drain, photoelectric image charges are allowed to form over a controlled exposure period Tv and then are transferred to vertical transfer CCDs, if the vertical transfer CCDs are then read so as to provide signals appropriate to two successive fields D1, D2 the second field contains dark current components which produce flicker in the displayed image. Therefore the vertical CCDs are read out a third time to give a measure of the dark current D3 which may be used to compensate the signal for the second field. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2262982-A (GB)
Title: Coin level sensor
Inventor: WATKINS KEITH JAMES
IPC: G07D1/00
Filed: 1991-10-16
Abstract: A coin mechanism having a coin storage tube (102) and an optical sensor for sensing the level of coins in the tube, the sensor comprising a light source (108) arranged to direct a light beam across the tube, means for returning the beam across the tube and a light detector (112) for detecting the returned beam, characterised in that the means for returning the beam is a concave mirror (114) having a curvature such as to give the beam an area, where it approaches the detector, substantially greater than the effective area of the detector. This enables, in a compact sensor, the light intensity at the detector to be enhanced and at the same time the sensivity to misalignment of components to be reduced.
Patent GB-2249312-A (GB)
Title: Beta-Galactoside binding proteins
Inventor: MALLUCCI LIVIO
IPC: C07K19/00
Filed: 1991-10-30
Abstract: Non-agglutinating ss-galactoside binding proteins (GBP), both the natural proteins and proteins produced by recombinant DNA technology, are provided for use as inhibitors and regulators of vertebrate cell growth and as anti-viral agents. Methods of producing the GBP's are also described. The GBP's show a powerful growth inhibitory effect against human cancer cells making them potentially useful therapeutic agents in the treatment of malignant disease and also show an inhibitory effect on viral replication making them potentially useful as anti-viral agents.
Patent GB-2251813-A (GB)
Title: "a funnel for loading salt into a dishwasher"
Inventor: FAVARO DANIELE
IPC: A47L15/42
Filed: 1991-11-18
Abstract: The invention relates to a funnel for loading salt through the mouth (7) of a container (4) of a dishwasher. The funnel comprises a cylindrical supporting part (12) which extends past the outlet (11) of the flared part (9) and is designed to fit the funnel to the mouth (7) of the salt container of the machine, in a position in which said outlet (11) is raised slightly above the mouth (7). The flared part (9) comprises an internal projection (13) designed to slow the flow of salt through the outlet (11). Applications: electrical household goods. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2250302-A (GB)
Title: Gasket paper
Inventor: HALL DAVID GEOFFREY
IPC: C09K3/10
Filed: 1991-11-21
Abstract: Non-asbestos flexible sheet material suitable for use in gaskets for the cylinder head of an internal combustion engine is made by a paper-making process in which the aqueous slurry employed is substantially free from cellulose and contains the following ingredients in the following proportions by dry weight: kaolinitic clay comprising both ball clay and china clay 65-90 %, organic fibres consisting essentially of fibrillated poly(aromatic amide) fibres 5-15 %, polymeric binder, e.g. nitrile rubber 4-10 %.
Patent GB-2251802-A (GB)
Title: Set of golf clubs, golf club, and grip therefor
Inventor: MINAMI MASANOBU
IPC: A63B53/14
Filed: 1991-12-30
Abstract: A golf club comprises a shaft (2) a head (3) secured to the front end of the shaft, a grip (4) secured to the rear end of the shaft, and a grip section (14) constituted by the grip (4) and a shaft portion (12) at which the grip secured to the shaft. The grip section has a weight of 100 to 260 g. The centre of gravity (g) of the grip section is located substantially at the center thereof in the longitudinal direction thereof. A grip for use in a golf club has a weight of 60 to 100 g. The center of gravity of the grip is located substantially at the center thereof in the longitudinal direction thereof. A weight 5 may be fitted into the grip 4 at substantially the center thereof. <IMAGE>