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Patent GB-2260009-A (GB)
Title: Electronic bicycle alarm
Inventor: CLARKE KEITH MARTIN
IPC: B62H5/20
Filed: 1991-09-07
Abstract: An electronic bicycle alarm 6 that can be armed/disarmed with the cycle standing or laying in any position or orientation. The major feature of the invention is that the alarm is located inside the cycle frame e.g. seat stem 4 to afford maximum protection from the weather and tampering. The alarm sounder may be external for maximum audibility. The arming/disarming mechanism may be external to allow for easy access. The alarm unit is armed/disarmed using either infra-red, ultra- sonic, radio, electrical or mechanical methods. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2249349-A (GB)
Title: Controlling an electropneumatic positioner
Inventor: MULLER HANS-JUERGEN
IPC: F15B21/08
Filed: 1991-10-23
Abstract: The invention relates to an electropneumatic positioner whose working chamber is connected either to a vacuum source or to a pressure source by means of one of two electromagnetic valves, the other of which is to atmosphere. Such a device is suitable for effecting actuation of a motor vehicle clutch. In known methods of controlling the operation of such a device there is the disadvantage that rapid adjustments require large valve cross-sections and as a result of this, because of valve times that are too short, slow adjustments cannot be achieved sensitively enough. The invention therefore provides that when slow positioner adjustment is required, the two electromagnetic valves are timed at the same frequency and with a pulse duty factor that can be varied for each valve. This renders possible, in conjunction with the least consumption of pneumatic gas, virtually completely arbitrary control of positioning speed, with the emphasis on sensitive control in the case when a low positioning speed is required.
Patent GB-2249794-A (GB)
Title: Liquid crystal polysiloxanes
Inventor: MCARDLE CIARAN BERNARD
IPC: C09K19/40
Filed: 1991-12-24
Abstract: Liquid crystal polymers, which may be used for optical information storage, either alone or in mixture with other liquid crystals, are of the general formula   <IMAGE>  wherein the mesogenic grouping M has a general structure   <IMAGE> wherein the rings P and Q are selected from phenyl, trans-cyclohexyl, pyridyl, pyrimidinyl, dioxanyl, and bicyclo (2.2.2) octyle, A, x, y and z are standard mesogenic substituents and b/a <3 and >0.
Patent GB-2263580-A (GB)
Title: A switch assembly
Inventor: GREEN TERENCE WILLIAM
IPC: H01H35/14
Filed: 1992-01-17
Abstract: In the field of tilt switches and shock sensors, it is known to provide a switch comprising a sealed chamber containing two switch terminals and a pool of mercury. On moving of the switch as a result of tilting or the application of an impulse, the mercury moves to close or open a circuit as desired. Such devices have disadvantages arising from the toxity of mercury. The disclosure relates to a switch assembly in which a magnet (26) is mounted for movement in the vicinity of a reed switch (20). A weight (29) is moveable in a direction generally perpendicular to the magnet (26), and is connected thereto by a mechanism (16;38,39,40;44) which translates the movement of the weight to movement of the magnet. The magnet (26) and reed switch (20) are configured so that the reed switch actuates on movement of the magnet. The advantage of the invention is that tilt switches and shock sensors can be constructed without the need for mercury. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2263402-A (GB)
Title: A finger nail contact extension
Inventor: FULLER SYDNEY CLEMENT ARTHUR
IPC: A45D31/00
Filed: 1992-01-27
Abstract: A design for a finger nail contact extension in the shape of a parabola. Its exact shape is specified so that it can be produced in quantities of an identical pattern, of a perfectly pleasing design and functional. A parabola is symmetrical and its sides divergent. Use is made of the tapering sides, suitably modified, to hold it on to the finger nail. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2254246-A (GB)
Title: Automated french fry cooking apparatus
Inventor: RASMUSSEN GLENN OLNEY
IPC: A47J37/12
Filed: 1992-02-19
Abstract: An apparatus 10 includes a cooking unit 12 having frying baskets (152A, 152B, 154A, 154B, Fig. 8). Mounted above unit 12 is a refrigeration unit 14 which includes a first conveyor (36 Fig 3) upon which a supply of frozen fries is stored. The conveyor (36, Fig 3) discharges the fries onto a second conveyor (72, Fig. 3) which dispenses a metered quantity of fries to a delivery mechanism 110 which includes a shaft 112 and a rotatable chute 122 for directing the fries from the second conveyor (72, Fig. 3) into any one of the baskets. The baskets are pivotally attached to the cooking unit 12 and are each movable between a loading draining position for receiving fries from the chute and for draining them, a position for frying the fries, and a position for discharging the fries onto a further conveyor which takes them to a holding bin 16, from which they are distributed. Frozen fries are loaded onto the conveyor (36, Fig 3) by way of a loading mechanism 210 having a loading bin 212. A method of cooking fries is also disclosed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2260005-A (GB)
Title: Memory manager for an operating system
Inventor: WELLAND ROBERT V
IPC: G06F12/02
Filed: 1992-03-26
Abstract: A plurality of address-oriented services, e.g. virtual addressing, garbage collection, are made available to tasks 22, 24, 26 of the operating system. This is achieved, in part, by providing only a single address space for the entire system, by associating independent address- oriented services with sets of addresses that define the address-oriented services that a task is allowed to access, but that do not overlap, and by defining a set of addresses within that address space that a service will be allowed to manage, thereby preventing independent services from attempting to manage the same address in conflicting ways. More specifically, a plurality of domains 10, 12, 14 (each representing a possibly non-contiguous set of addresses of the address space), each corresponds to an address-oriented service, and a plurality of environments 28, 30, 32. Each environment has the ability to control a task's access to a domain so as to take advantage of the address-oriented service offered by that domain. Since these domains do not overlap, an address can only be associated with a single domain. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2257429-A (GB)
Title: Water filters
Inventor: PORTER WILLIAM JOHN
IPC: B01D35/26
Filed: 1992-07-07
Abstract: A batch type water filter for domestic use comprises a vessel 3 for water to be purified, a filter element 6 for purifying the water disposed above the vessel 3, a pump 9 for feeding water from the vessel up the passage 5c and through the filter element, means for controlling the operation of the pump and an outlet 8 for water purified by the filter. The pump is driven by an electric motor 11 and the motor and pump are designed so as to pump water through the filter element at a substantially constant rate whereby the quantity of water which has been purified can be determined by the time for which the pump is in operation. The motor 11 is controlled by a timing circuit 16 which is arranged to energise the motor and hence control the operation of the pump for a time corresponding to the delivery of a predetermined quantity of purified water. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2261198-A (GB)
Title: Displacement control motor, eg for steering toy cars.
Inventor: LEE MING-JI
IPC: F16H35/00
Filed: 1992-09-18
Abstract: A displacement control motor provided with a rotary shaft (12) and a reel (21) capable of changing deflection angle according to the rotary speed of the motor whereby other articles can be carried, driven, or controlled via the reel. The motor includes a concealed motor (11), a driving gear A, a driven gear B, a reel shaft seat (2) and a load device (3), wherein the rotary shaft is connected with the driving gear while the driven gear meshes with the driving gear. The driving and driven gears (A, B) are both pivoted to the shaft seat (2) and the driven gear is linked with the load device, whereby the rotary shafts of the driving and driven gears are located on the same shaft seat and the driven gear is additionally loaded by the load device (3). A balance spring (22) is used to restrict the displacement of the driven gear so that by means of the change of rotary speed of the rotary shaft, the deflection magnitude of the reel can be controlled. In a toy car, the motor (11) propels the car and the output from the reel (21) actuates the steering mechanism. The motor can also be used in tachometers. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2260268-A (GB)
Title: Injectable veterinary compositions comprising sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim
Inventor: PUSKAS LASZLO
IPC: A61K9/08
Filed: 1992-10-07
Abstract: An injectable veterinary composition that is free from toxic side effects contains 0.8 - 6 parts by weight of 2,4-diamino-- 5-[3',4',5'-trimethoxybenzyl]-pyrimidine 4 to 30 parts by weight of 3-[4-aminophenylsulfonamido]-5-methylisoxazole 25 to 65 parts by weight of one or more organic solvent(s) being miscible with water, 1 to 40 parts by weight of water, 3 to 12 parts by weight of one or more solubilising agent(s), 2 to 10 parts by weight of urea and 0.2 to 4 parts by weight of one or more additive(s).
Patent GB-2272114-A (GB)
Title: Tacking tensile load at cable joints
Inventor: BROWN CHARLES JEREMY
IPC: G02B6/44
Filed: 1992-10-27
Abstract: A method of jointing two ends of a cable containing internal mechanical strength members within an external sheath comprises the steps of affixing to each cable an external "stopper" (12a, 12b, 24a, 24b) extending from a short distance from the end of the cable (10) away from the cable end, providing mechanical tensile load transfer means (12, 30a, 30b) between the two stoppers (12a, 12b, 24a, 24b), preparing an end portion of each cable to expose a length of the cable core (10a, 10b) and performing a jointing procedure between the exposed cable core ends whereby the jointed ends of the cable core are free of tensile load. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2263476-A (GB)
Title: Removing dye from a dyeing solution
Inventor: MCCOLLAM FRANCIS MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: B01D61/16
Filed: 1993-01-22
Abstract: Residual reactive dye remaining in a salt-containing dye bath after use is removed by adsorption onto active carbon particles, and subsequent removal of the carbon by filtration. The presence of salt enhances the adsorption of dye onto the active carbon. Filtration may be carried out using a hollow fibre crossflow filter containing expanded porous polytetrafluoroethylene hollow fibres, or by back-pulse filtration.
Patent GB-2278902-A (GB)
Title: End-fixing apparatus
Inventor: DODD JOHN MARSHALL
IPC: E04C5/12
Filed: 1993-06-08
Abstract: A fixing apparatus for securing the end of a length of elongate material (12) comprises a rigid body (10) having a tapered aperture (11) extending therethrough, a retaining pin (14) of such dimensions as to be able to extend into the tapered aperture and tapered at an angle generally comparable to that of the tapered aperture and a resin (18) for bonding the retaining pin (14) to the elongate material. A method of securing an end of length of elongate material using the fixing apparatus is also described. The apparatus and method may be used to secure the ends of ground anchors, for example.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2272623-A (GB)
Title: Turf laying apparatus
Inventor: DAWSON PAUL A
IPC: A01B45/00
Filed: 1993-07-05
Abstract: Apparatus comprises a carrying frame, 4, mounted on a base 1 and the frame 4 has (a) supporting arm(s) carrying a roll of turf 20 which is rotated about its longitudinal axis onto a surface as base 1 is moved along the surface. Base 1 may have wheels. The base 1 and frame 4 are substantially no wider than the roll of turf and the apparatus is balanced against roll's weight A limb 5 of the carrying frame is pivotally mounted on the base about point 6. The frame also comprises a limb portion 7, which is integral with limb 5 and at an angle of 120 DEG  thereto. Supporting arm 8 is pivotally mounted on the limb portion 7, about pivot point 9. The free end of supporting arm 8 is provided with a hook-shaped portion 10, adapted to engage with the axle of the roll. As shown, carrying frame 4 comprises two parallel limbs 5, two parallel limb portions 7 and two parallel supporting arms (each with a hook shaped portion) 8, one at either side of the base 1. A hydraulic ram 11, operated by means of a hand pump, is pivotally mounted on the base 1 about point 12. At its other end, the ram is attached (pivotally, at point 13) to a cross arm 14 to which the limbs 5 of the carrying frame are connected. A number of embodiments are illustrated. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2282043-A (GB)
Title: Teat cup and insert
Inventor: HORWELL GEOFFREY FREDERICK
IPC: A01J5/08
Filed: 1993-09-28
Abstract: Suction cups 11 or 14 for use in automatic use in automatic milking machines are shown wherein the upper end of the cup 12 or 15, which are presented to the teat of a cow, comprises an upwardly presented trumpet shaped member of smoothly downwardly reducing diameter. The upper end 15 may be formed integral with the cup or as an insert 11 therefor and comprises resilient material for example natural or synthetic rubber. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2282499-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle hazard warning system
Inventor: PEGGIE PETER EDWARD MICHAEL
IPC: B60Q1/44
Filed: 1994-01-19
Abstract: When the vehicle is subjected to hard braking and/or an impact, a magnet 1 slides forward and is latched in position. The contacts of a reed relay 2 are therefore closed causing energisation of a relay 3 which operates the hazard lights. The system is reset by pushing the button of a toggle mechanism. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2289804-A (GB)
Title: Supporting optical fibre units
Inventor: JONES MALCOLM OWEN
IPC: G02B6/44
Filed: 1994-05-18
Abstract: A support for an optical fibre unit comprising at least one optical fibre comprises a tube which is adapted to be suspended from aerial supports, for receiving a fibre unit blown thereinto. The tube has at least one tensile resistant member 14 co-extensive therewith embedded in the wall thereof. The member 14 may be aramid fibre but is preferably metallic. The walls of the tube may comprise one or more layers and be loaded with carbon to dissipate static electricity. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2290448-A (GB)
Title: Automatic nan bread production process
Inventor: REZAEI MOHAMMED HOSSAIN
IPC: A21D13/00
Filed: 1994-06-22
Abstract: The automatic nan bread production process is comprised of standard mixer, divider moulder and proving apparatus which dispense dough balls of consistent size and weight and dusted with flour (4) onto a travelling conveyor belt through a graduating gauge roller / conveyor (5), through a series of gauge rollers (6) (7) to achieve an authentic tear shaped piece of dough of the desired length and width and thickness. An oiling station (8) is provided to coat evenly each piece of dough prior to baking. A zoned travelling oven (9), then bakes the bread in a specific manner with respect to time through the oven, temperature through the oven and direction and type of heat used to bake dough within the oven. A cooling room then allows the baked bread to be cooled to the desired ambient temperature for packing. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2292185-A (GB)
Title: Fan with air cooling means
Inventor: KUO CHUNG-LI
IPC: H01L23/467
Filed: 1994-08-06
Abstract: A cooling fan including a first motor 14, a second motor 16 disposed under the first motor, a cooling impeller 15 drivingly connected with the first motor, an exhaust impeller 17 drivingly connected with the second motor and disposed under the cooling impeller, a semi-conductor chip 20 arranged between the cooling impeller and the exhaust fan, and having a cooling surface 21 at the top and a heat dissipating surface 22 at the bottom, and a cooling water coil 31 mounted on the cooling surface of the semi-conductor chip, whereby the cooling fan can make a current of cool air. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2293143-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle steering control device
Inventor: MORIMOTO KAZUNAGA
IPC: B62D1/02
Filed: 1994-09-13
Abstract: A steering control device for a motor car comprises a steering handle 1 formed in any desired shape, flexible tubes 2 supporting the handle so that it can move laterally to steer the wheels, and a rack 41 and pinion 42 to convert lateral displacement of the handle to rotary motion of the steering column. In the event of an accident, the flexible tubes deform to absorb collision energy, protecting the driver. The steering handle static position may be raised or lowered to suit the driver's build by adjustment of hinged joints 3 (figs. 3, 4). The steering may be hydraulically actuated (figs. 5 and 6). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-941843-A (GB)
IPC: D01G15/46
Abstract: 941,843. Carding engines. CARDING SPECIALISTS (CANADA) Ltd. May 14, 1962 [July 20, 1961; Oct. 11, 1961; March 1, 1962], Nos. 26271/61, 36431/61 and 7958/62. Heading D1N. A fibre web is removed from the doffer of a cotton carding machine by a train of stripping rollers that includes a card clothed roller and a bare roller. Preferably, the web travels in a straight line tangential to each roller of the train and is less deeply impaled on each successive roller as it travels from the doffer to the last roller. In addition, the web may be subjected to draft between the first and last rollers. The roller train may consist only of a card clothed roller 34, Fig. 8, and a bare roller 36 which may be one of a pair of pressure rollers that may crush extraneous matters. Another arrangement, Fig. 2, includes a redirecting roller 16 between a card clothed stripping roller 14 and a bare roller 18. The teeth of the stripper roller may be set into or may just touch the teeth of the doffer or there may be a gap of up to .03 inches between the points of the teeth. There may be two or more redirecting rollers in the train and, like the roller 14, the redirecting rollers may be clothed either with flexible wire (fillet) or metallic wire (sawtooth) clothing. Alternatively, the redirecting rollers may be plain surfaced but may have strips of cellulose film stuck to their surfaces at spaced positions or in helical formation. Plain surfaced rollers may be wetted to facilitate the stripping action. The draft applied to the web by the roller train is between 3% and 40%. Cleaner rollers. such as 13, may be provided in co-operation with the doffer and first stripper roller; such cleaner rollers may be made of wood, plastics or metal and are preferably covered with cloth to pick up fibres. Bare rollers may have roughened surfaces. According to the third Provisional Specification, the roller train may comprise a first saw-tooth clothed roller,followed by rollers with smaller saw-tooth clothing, then a knurled roller or rollers, a slightly roughened roller or rollers, and, finally, a smooth roller. According to the second Provisional Specification; the first roller of the train may be plain surfaced, followed by plain surfaced redirecting rollers. The first Provisional Specification states that it may be necessary to blow air into the gap between the first stripper and redirecting rollers so as to cause the web carried by the stripper roller to detach itself on reaching the redirecting rdller. Specification 841, 391 is referred to.
Patent GB-2298921-A (GB)
Title: Route guidance device for road vehicles
Inventor: FOULSTON JOHN HOWARD
IPC: G01C21/34
Filed: 1994-11-25
Abstract: Route guidance data is inputted to the memory of the device 1 by manual keypad 4 or from an external computer 7 or from a coin or credit card accessed disc, card, tape or RAM, and route instructions are shown one at a time on display 5, the device 1 using the readings of an odometer sensor 10 to calculate when the vehicle is approaching a waypoint so as to give a warning signal to the driver to read the current instruction and to activate the next instruction. The device 1 may be plugged into the vehicle's power supply, and can display data characteristic of the route leg, distance to run, and ETA.
Patent GB-2297730-A (GB)
Title: Adaptor device for securing a trolley cot in an ambulance
Inventor: HOPKINS PHILIP MICHAEL
IPC: A61G1/06
Filed: 1995-02-09
Abstract: The adaptor device (20) adapts a trolley cot not designed to be secured in a vehicle, eg an ambulance, by means of a floor mounted securing device (10) such that it may be so secured. The floor mounted securing device (10) is of the kind comprising a first element (12) intended for receipt of small jockey wheels of a trolley cot and a second element (14) intended for receipt of a cross member of the trolley cot. The adaptor device (10) comprises means (23, 31) for securing the device to the trolley cot, means (25) for engaging with the first element (12) of the floor mounted securing device and means (33) for engaging with the second element (14) of the floor mounted securing device.
Patent GB-2286601-A (GB)
Title: Gripper axminster loom
Inventor: GRIFFITH JOHN DALTON
IPC: D03D39/08
Filed: 1995-02-14
Abstract: A gripperAxminster loom has a plurality of yarn carriers (1) mounted for reciprocation, in use of the loom, between a selected first position in which a required yarn can be taken from the carrier, and a second or rest position, and means operable on detection of a fault to move a selected carrier from its second position independently of the other carriers for access for repair. The carriers are reciprocated by a shaft (5) which is normally driven through a cam by a further shaft. On detecting a fault however the latter shaft is stopped and the shaft (5) is driven instead by means such as an air cylinder while the carrier detected as being faulty is coupled by electromagnetic means (3) for displacement by the shaft to the repair position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2298205-A (GB)
Title: Genetic transformation of eucalyptus
Inventor: EDWARDS GLYN ALYN
IPC: C12N15/82
Filed: 1995-02-17
Abstract: A process for producing genetically-engineered eucalyptus, comprising the co-cultivation of explant cells of Eucalyptus species such as E. grandis, E. globulus, E. nitens or E. dunnii with Agrobacterium tumefaciens microorganism including one or more DNA sequences which are functional in plants, in order to achieve a genetic modification by which the cells are stably transformed with the DNA. The explants may be derived from seedling hypocotyls or from petioles, leaves or stems.
Patent GB-2285990-A (GB)
Title: 2:1 aluminium complexes
Inventor: KAUL BANSI LAL
IPC: C09D7/00
Filed: 1992-09-01
Abstract: A compound of formula II   <IMAGE>  in which  each n independently is 1 or 2; each R1 independently together with the -C=C- group to which they are attached form a single or fused aromatic ring system that is substituted or unsubstituted; each R2 independently is unsubstituted or substituted phenyl, C1-12alkyl and C1-4alkoxy-C2-8alkyl; and X<+> is a cation.d
Patent GB-2286748-A (GB)
Title: Feature interaction manager
Inventor: BRENNAN STEVEN
IPC: H04M3/42
Filed: 1994-08-23
Abstract: A feature interaction manager (17) is interposed between a telecommunications switching platform (25) within a network and the feature logic (11) providing call features to subscribers using the platform. Control is interposed within the interface between the detection of events within the switching system (25) and the implementation of the telecommunications services by the feature logic (11) in order to manage the interaction of various ones of a plurality of features provided to a subscriber. The system evaluates events within the network in order to isolate each feature from the other features and associates them only through the feature interaction manager (17).