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Patent GB-2292109-A (GB)
Title: Moulding plastics articles having incorporated blanks of sheet material
Inventor: BAGNALL PAUL JAMES HOWARD
IPC: B29C45/14
Filed: 1995-07-31
Abstract: Moulded plastics articles have blanks of sheet material, e.g. as labels and/or diffusion barriers, incorporated into them during moulding, a plurality of the articles being moulded in each moulding operation. At least sufficient blanks are cut at a time for each moulding operation. The blanks, preferably of a flimsy plastics film material, are positively held discretely from when they are cut until they are positioned for location in the mould cavities. As cut by dies (A, B, C, D), the blanks may be at different spacings from the mould cavities (4), their spacing then being adjusted to suit the cavities as they are held after cutting and/or collected for transfer to the mould. Alternatively, a group of blanks (Y, Y1, Z, Z1) (Fig. 10; not shown) may be cut in which the number of blanks is a multiple of the number of mould cavities (4) and there are sets of blanks in the group each having blanks of corresponding spacing and configuration to the mould cavities. The sets are transferred in turn to the mould for successive moulding operations. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2305708-A (GB)
Title: Shut-off valve
Inventor: HUGHES RAYMOND LOUIS
IPC: F16K35/02
Filed: 1995-09-27
Abstract: A shut-off valve has a valve poppet (12) having a cap (14) secured to it. The inner end of poppet (12) is slidable within a tubular passage located between an inlet (20) and an outlet (22). A plurality of radial apertures (48) form the outlet to the passage which has an inlet (38). The poppet (12) is displaceable into a first, closed position in which it is sealingly located between inlet (38) and outlet (48) from a second, open position, where the outlet (48) is located between inlet (38) and poppet (12). Spring (56) biasses the valve open. Poppet (12) may be retained in the closed position against the force of the spring by a plurality of resiliently deformable fingers (52) projecting from the undersurface of cap (14). The lower ends of fingers (52) have radially outwardly projecting lugs (53) adapted to engage underneath a peripheral rim (50) on the valve body. The fingers are released by buttons (54) projecting through the wall of the cap, allowing spring (56) to open the valve.
Patent GB-2310410-A (GB)
Title: Camera mounting pedestals
Inventor: LINDSAY RICHARD ARTHUR
IPC: F16M11/42
Filed: 1996-02-26
Abstract: A camera mounting pedestal has a rolling base (10) mounted on spaced steerable individually suspended wheel units (12). The suspension for each unit comprises a relatively soft, damped spring (26) for absorbing higher frequency wheel movements and thereby preventing such movement from being transmitted to the base, and a displacement actuator (22) in series with the spring to apply a variable force between the wheel and base. The actuators for the wheel units have a control system including gyroscope means (15) responsive to tilting of the base about any horizontal axis (15a) and accelerometer means (14) responsive to vertical movement of the base to operate the actuators so as to neutralize transmission of lower frequency movements from the wheels to the base.
Patent GB-2315431-A (GB)
Title: Fluidised bed furnaces
Inventor: KOSTUCH JACEK ANTONI
IPC: F27B15/14
Filed: 1996-07-23
Abstract: Hot fluidising gas is introduced into a bed of material to be treated along the line of arrow "X". Below the bed it passes through a ring of blades 21, which are at an angle to the vertical in order to introduce a toroidal, circular flow to the gas and particles. More particles can be added through the radial tubes 23. In order to avoid the build-up of fused solid on the blades 21, the zone of greatest heating is caused to be well above them. To this effect, fuel is introduced via pipe 49 and radial pipes 45, which are angled upwards at their outer ends, so clearing the blades 21. This reacts (burns) with the hot fluidising gas (eg air), so producing the heat required for the treatment.
Patent GB-2318378-A (GB)
Title: Fixing profiled mouldings to skinned doors
Inventor: CRUISE PAUL
IPC: E06B3/58
Filed: 1996-10-02
Abstract: Profiled mouldings 10 are secured to a door 2 by fixing members 6. The profiles may be purely decorative, or be used to mount an infill panel 4. Each fixing member is fitted into a drilled aperture with slotted serrated portions 8 standing proud of the door surface. Corresponding serrated recesses 12 allow the profiles to be to be fitted over the fixing members, and be non-releasably secure. Adhesive tape 14 positioned between the profiled mouldings and the door/infill panel provides additional fixing of the profiled mouldings. In a further embodiment fig. 7 (not shown) the fixing member is replaced by a dowel and the profiled mouldings are secured purely by adhesive means.
Patent GB-2317859-A (GB)
Title: Retractor reel for a safety belt
Inventor: PARVIN HOSSEIN
IPC: B60R22/46
Filed: 1996-10-03
Abstract: A retractor reel for a safety-belt comprises a spool 6 on which the safety-belt is wound. A spring 15 biasses the spool 6 to reel-in the safety-belt during normal wear, and the spool is locked when an accident occurs. A rotor 18 is connected to the spool 6 and defines arcuate flow passages which extend radially outwards toward outlets 24 formed in the housing 10. The outlets to the flow passages are arranged tangentially to the outer periphery of the rotor 18 such that, in response to an accident, gas generated from the pyrotechnic charge 27 causes the rotor 18 to rotate, thus pre-tensioning the safety-belt.
Patent GB-2317887-A (GB)
Title: Porous ceramic articles; bone cell growth and drug carriers
Inventor: SMITH ROBERT TERENCE
IPC: A61K6/838
Filed: 1996-10-04
Abstract: A method of making a porous article composed of bonded particles (such as hydroxyapatite or the like) comprising the steps of  a) forming a dispersion comprising a liquid carrier and the particles and a polymerisable monomeric material; b) forming a foam of the dispersion; c) polymerising the foamed structure; d) drying the structure to remove the liquid carrier and provide a solid article having pores derived from the bubbles, and e) firing the article to remove the organic binder and provide a ceramic bond is characterised in that small bubbles of gas are introduced in the dispersion with agitation to form the foam and are allowed to caused to coalesce before the polymerisation of the monomeric material. The particles may be of hydroxyapatite, which gives a product used in bone cell culture, or for carrying drugs.
Patent GB-2306684-A (GB)
Title: Film unit with prerecorded information
Inventor: KAMATA KAZUO
IPC: G03B19/04
Filed: 1996-10-23
Abstract: A lens-fitted photo film unit is pre-loaded with a photo film 4. Imaging frames are created on the photo film by a shutter releasing. There is aspect ratio information optically prerecorded on the photo film 4 in an outside of the imaging frames, and associated with a respective one of the frames. The aspect ratio information includes two dots 9a and 9b and represents an aspect ratio in two bits. The imaging frames are printed in accordance with the aspect ratio. The lens-fitted photo film unit has a viewfinder with a view field of the aspect ratio represented by the aspect ratio information.
Patent GB-2322964-A (GB)
Title: Capacitors for DRAM cells
Inventor: SUN SHIH-WEI
IPC: H01L27/108
Filed: 1997-03-07
Abstract: A thin layer of silicon nitride 26 is deposited on an oxide layer 24 and then vias are opened through the silicon nitride and silicon oxide layers to expose one of the source/drain regions 20,22 of pass transistors in a memory array. A layer of polysilicon 30 is deposited so as to extend through the vias, forming polysilicon vertical interconnects and then the layer of polysilicon is patterned to form capacitor bottom plates. A second layer of silicon oxide is deposited to cover the capacitor bottom plates and photolithography is performed to provide openings though the second silicon oxide layer to each of the capacitor bottom plates. Polysilicon is deposited to fill each of the openings and chemical mechanical polishing is performed to remove excess polysilicon using the silicon oxide layer as a polish stop. The second oxide layer is stripped to leave the capacitor bottom plates with fins or posts 36. A capacitor dielectric 38 is then formed over the capacitor bottom electrodes, and capacitor upper electrodes 40 are formed.
Patent GB-2307238-A (GB)
Title: Improved cyclic conjugated diene polymer and process for producing the same
Inventor: NATORI ITARU
IPC: C08F210/02
Filed: 1995-11-17
Abstract: A cycle conjugated diene polymer wherein the main chain comprises the units of at least one cycle conjugated diene monomer alone or a mixture thereof with the units of at least one other monomer copolymerizable with the diene monomer, wherein the diene monomer units are linked to each other in the main chain through 1,2 and 1,4-bonds in a comparatively high molar ratio of the 1,2-bond to the 1,4-bond, and which has a comparatively narrow molecular weight distribution and improved thermal and mechanical characteristics. The invention also discloses an industrially advantageous process for producing the diene polymer having such excellent features by using a specific catalyst.
Patent GB-2308808-A (GB)
Title: A clothes line and canopy arrangement
Inventor: MOORE PATRICK AUGUSTINE
IPC: D06F57/04
Filed: 1995-09-25
Abstract: A free-standing clothes line with a canopy arrangement, is provided wherein the clothes line comprises a central pole (1), means for connecting the pole to a base, a crown arrangement (2) fixed or rotatable about the pole, a collar (4) movable up and down the pole with respect to the crown, wherein arms (3) are articulated with respect to the crown and radiate therefrom to support a canopy, and has struts (5) articulated win respect to and radiating from the collar (4) at their proximal ends, and connected at their distal ends to the arms (3). The arrangement is characterised in that the struts (5) are articulated at their distal ends to the outer ends of the arms (3), and in that the collar (4) is moved down the pole, away from the crown (2) to open out the arms, and is moved up the pole, towards the crown, to collapse the arms, and wherein the struts are adapted to support a plurality of clothes lines (11). An additional base support may be provided by a table surface (7a) defining a hole through which the central pole (1) is adapted to pass, which table is supported by legs (8a) to act a steadying support for the pole.
Patent GB-2324061-A (GB)
Title: Pressing a moulded door skin from a wood composite blank
Inventor: MOYES HARTLEY
IPC: B27N7/00
Filed: 1997-04-10
Abstract: A method of manufacturing a door skin includes the steps of placing a wood composite flat blank 10 between the platens 50,52 of a heated press and heating the platens to a temperature sufficient to soften the resins in the blank to thereby soften the blank. Sufficient pressure is applied to close the platens and thereafter the pressure is cyclically applied to increased pressure levels for thereby causing the blank to be deformed into a molded shape determined by the configuration of the platens. The molded blank is then removed from between the platens. The method may also include the steps of increasing the moisture content of the blank before pressing; applying a sealer to a first major surface of the blank prior to increasing the moisture content thereof and applying a moisture barrier to a major surface of the flat blank prior to pressing. Door skins having, respectively, first and second portions of differing pre-selected thicknessess and a density of 800 to 1000 kg per cubic metre are described and claimed as is a door comprising a peripheral frame to which are mounted first and second moulded door skins, each skin having a moisture impervious barrier applied wholly over its side remote from the frame.
Patent GB-2312186-A (GB)
Title: Supplying ink to a printing machine
Inventor: LAUBMANN GERD
IPC: B41F33/16
Filed: 1997-04-17
Abstract: In printing machines, particularly offset printing machines, with which an ink profile can be produced by means of adjustable dosing devices 10 each allocated to a zone 1-6, steady-state production conditions can be achieved very quickly by a two-stage start-up process. Firstly a filling process is carried out, in which the dosing devices 10 over the whole breadth of the inking unit are brought into a position defining a filling gap s', and then the dosing devices 10 are moved temporarily into a transitional setting (e.g. either 0% or 100%) with an exaggerated difference from the filling gap setting 14, as compared to the setting for the production ink profile 7. Only then are they brought into the setting 13 corresponding to the production ink profile 7. This greatly speeds up the initialisation process.
Patent GB-2327791-A (GB)
Title: Data card connector
Inventor: HAFFENDEN IAN DAVID
IPC: H04M1/00
Filed: 1997-07-25
Abstract: A data card connector has connector contacts (74) for contacting data card contacts (73) to couple the data card contracts (73) to circuitry. The connector contacts (74) are positioned to contact respective data card contacts (73) when the data card (71) is located in the connector (72) in a first orientation (Figure 7a), and so that only one data card contact (73b) is contacted by any one of them when the data card (71) is located in the connector (72) in a second orientation, 180 degrees rotated from the first (Figure 7b). The VPP contact (74b) in the connector is not connected to any circuitry.
Patent GB-2329746-A (GB)
Title: Modular electronic system
Inventor: ROBERTS PAUL
IPC: G06F1/18
Filed: 1997-09-25
Abstract: A modular electronic system (eg for PC or Hifi) is provided in which individual modules are encased in their own enclose (30, 32) and the enclosures are then held within a case. Individual modules may then be exchanged or upgraded.
Patent GB-2319582-A (GB)
Title: Assembly for lubricating a small connecting-rod eye
Inventor: HONOLD MARTIN
IPC: F01M1/06
Filed: 1997-11-18
Abstract: An assembly is for lubricating a small connecting-rod eye 4 of a connecting rod 5 of an internal combustion engine. Cooling oil is conveyed from the engine lubricating-oil circuit via a nozzle 9 into an annular cooling chamber 7, extending circularly in the piston head 6. The annular cooling chamber 7 has at least one inlet bore 8 and at least one outlet bore 10, and at least one radially extending oil feed bore 12, 13 being provided in the connecting-rod eye 4, which oil feed bore 12, 13 is connected to lubricating-oil pockets 18, 19 in the form of recesses in the wall 20 of the receiving bore. Apart from the two oil feed bores 12, 13 arranged above a transverse axis 11 of the connecting-rod eye 4, the connecting-rod eye is configured as a self-contained bearing housing, and that furthermore the lubricating-oil pockets 18, 19 have a gap depth which decreases towards the connecting rod and can be acted upon by cooling oil emerging as lubricant without pressure from the outlet bore 10 of the annular cooling chamber 7. The wall of the receiving bore is coated by sputtering in the main load areas located between the lubricating-oil pocket areas.
Patent GB-2324353-A (GB)
Title: Torsional vibration damper
Inventor: KRAFT GUNTHER
IPC: F16F15/123
Filed: 1997-12-05
Abstract: The damper 1, such as a clutch disc or clutch plate in a vehicle friction clutch, has a rotary input component 4-7 adapted to be driven by a prime mover, a rotary output component 8-12 coaxial with the input component and arranged to transmit torque to the transmission, and several series-connected torsional vibration dampers 13,24 serving to oppose rotation of the input and output components relative to each other. At least one of the dampers constitutes a preassembled module wherein coaxial annular input and output elements 18, 24 are provided with arcuate pockets 21, 22 for circumferentially extending coil springs 24 serving to oppose rotation of the input and output elements relative to each other. The elements are further provided with rigid and/or resilient projections eg in the form of tongues 48 and/or other suitable confining configurations which can couple the elements to at least one of the coil springs to thus hold such elements against movement axially and away from each other. The springs 24 being held in their pockets 21, 22 serve to hold the elements 18, 20 against axial movements away from each other. Shipping and assembly are thus facilitated.
Patent GB-2332600-A (GB)
Title: Method of providing a matrix indicating interference relationships between cells of a cellular communication system
Inventor: GALLAGHER MARK
IPC: H04W16/18
Filed: 1997-12-19
Abstract: A method of providing a matrix indicating interference relationships between cells of a cellular communication system comprises the steps of receiving measurement reports from mobile stations, the reports containing signal strength metric data of a serving cell and signal strength metric and identity data of a plurality of other cells, comparing the signal strength metrics of each other cell with those of the serving cell to provide a set of comparison values and determining the matrix from the comparison values and identity data. The step of comparing signal strengths involves subtracting the signal strength value N i  of the other cell from the signal strength value S i  of the serving cell. A number of S i -N i  values are calculated for a particular other cell and a histogram is formed from the count occurrence of each value. The levels of occurrence are normalised and totalised within predetermined ranges of S-N value on the histogram to provide an interference coefficient for the particular other cell. The coefficients for all other cells form a matrix of values which is used for frequency planning.
Patent GB-2322664-A (GB)
Title: Variable configuration stepladder
Inventor: REDSELL MARK
IPC: E06C1/18
Filed: 1998-02-19
Abstract: A variable configuration stepladder (11) may be used as a stepladder, a asymmetric stepladder for use on interrupted or inclined surfaces, or as a extension ladder. The stepladder (11) is characterised by the provision of a slide bracket (14) pivotally attached at or adjacent an end of the first of a pair of ladder sections (13), the second ladder section (12) being slidably mounted in the slide bracket (14). The slide bracket (14) allows the second ladder section (12) to slide longitudinally with respect to the first (13). There may be provided a locking means (31) pivotally connected to the slide bracket (14) engagable over a rung(17), to prevent relative sliding movement of the second ladder section (12) with respect to the slide bracket (14). There may alternatively or additionally be provided an elongate tie member (52) pivotally connected to one ladder section, and releasably to the other, which restrains against spreading of the two ladder sections.
Patent GB-2327370-A (GB)
Title: A filter for a shore hole or gully trap
Inventor: COUGHLAN DAVID J
IPC: E03F5/04
Filed: 1998-02-28
Abstract: A dished shaped filter 18 for a shore hole, or gully trap, comprises a substantially square base 19 from which four substantially trapezoidal sidewalls 20 extend upwardly and outwardly to form a substantially square open mouth. Holes 22 are formed in both the base and the sidewalls. In use the filter is supported within a pipe adaptor 11 below a grille 14. The relative sizes of the holes in the filter 18 and the apertures in the grille 14 are such that the filter will trap particles of material small enough to pass through the grille but too large to pass through the filter. The presence of holes 22 in the sidewalls of the filter 18 allow air to escape in conditions of heavy rain. The filter 18 may also be formed as a segment of a sphere giving a bowl-shaped configuration.
Patent GB-2331306-A (GB)
Title: An alloy steel
Inventor: ETO HIROHITO
IPC: C22C38/12
Filed: 1998-11-16
Abstract: A steel comprises (in % by weight) 0.45-0.60 C, 0.50-2.00 Si, 0.10-0.30 Mn (excluding 0.30 %), 0.08-0.15 V, 0.01-0.10 P, 0.01-0.20 S, 0.0020-0.0050 N (excluding 0.0050 %), optionally any of the following 0.005-0.050 Al, 0.005-0.050 Ti, 0.05-0.30 Nb, 0.10-0.50 Cr, 0.05-0.50 Mo, 0-0.4 Pb, 0-0.4 Bi, 0-0.4 Se, 0-0.050 Te, 0-0.0030 Ca with the balance being iron and inevitable impurities. The inner micro-structure of the steel comprises ferrite and pearlite. Such an alloy has good fatigue strength and machinability and is also deformed little upon fracturing. It is therefore used to make articles, such as internal combustion engine connecting rods or bearing supports, by hot rolling or hot forging into the desired shape, with the shape then being fractured into two parts (as shown in figure 4).
Patent GB-2331521-A (GB)
Title: Vaccine preparations
Inventor: BARROW PAUL ANDREW
IPC: C12R1/42
Filed: 1997-07-15
Abstract: The invention provides a live gut-colonising microorganism (e.g. Salmonella) capable of evoking an immune response in an animal (e.g. a chicken) for use as a vaccine, characterised in that the microorganism has a specific mutation which impairs its ability to colonise the alimentary tract of the animal. Preferably the microorganism is attenuated, and/or has a negative serological marker, and/or expresses antigens from heterologous organisms. Preferably the mutation comprises the inactivation of a gene selected from: hupA, dksA, rfaY, sipC or clpB. Also disclosed are associated methods generating the vaccines, pharmaceutical preparations, methods of protecting aninals and the products of these methods.
Patent GB-2347817-A (GB)
Title: Cordless earphone arrangement for a telephone
Inventor: YANG BILL
IPC: H04M1/05
Filed: 1999-03-10
Abstract: The system uses infrared or radio wave as medium for transmitting voice signal from a telephone to a receiver earphone worn by the user, and then uses a microphone to pick up voice messages from the user. Hence, hands-free telephone conversation is possible with either wired or mobile telephones.
Patent GB-2335278-A (GB)
Title: Biosensor with reverse iontophoretic sampling system
Inventor: KIM LYNN
IPC: G01N27/30
Filed: 1999-03-12
Abstract: The system extracts an analyte such as glucose transdermally into reservoirs 22, 24 by reverse iontophoresis using annular electrodes 8,10. The reservoirs comprise hydrogel 22, 24 containing an ionically conducting medium and an enzyme which reacts with the analyte to form hydrogen peroxide, and the concentration of the analyte which results in the reservoir is sub-millimolar. Sensing elements, comprising sensing electrodes 12, 14, reference electrodes, and the annular iontophoresis electrodes 8, 10 sense the hydrogen peroxide electrochemically and produce a signal related to analyte concentration. The sensing electrodes have an area of 0.1 - 3 cm<2>, a background current from 2 - 60 nA, and a sensitivity of 6 - 180 nA/ÁM of hydrogen peroxide in a buffer solution at 0.6 V. The iontophoresis electrodes have an area of 0.3 - 1.0 cm<2> and are capable of repeated cycles of current in the range 0.01 - 1.0 mA/cm<2>.
Patent GB-2338436-A (GB)
Title: Liquid atomizer device
Inventor: JASER STEFAN
IPC: B05B15/00
Filed: 1999-06-16
Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid atomizer device for producing aerosols, said device comprising a first housing part (A) which includes an inner member (3) of an atomizer nozzle and a first connection means (9) for connecting the first housing part (A) to a further housing part to form a nebulizing chamber (1), and further comprising a second housing part (B) which includes an outer member of the atomizer nozzle which can be brought into engagement with the inner member (3) to form the atomizer nozzle, and a second connection means (11) which can be brought into engagement with the first connection means (9) for connecting the second housing part to the first housing part. The invention is characterized in that a service life indicator (L) is arranged at a place which does not impede the flow passing through the device, but is accessible to the aerosol and a sterilant.