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Patent GB-2148513-A (GB)
Title: Device for measuring moisture contained in the skin or the like
Inventor: ABE TAKEHIKO
IPC: A61B10/00
Filed: 1984-09-18
Abstract: A device which accurately measures moisture quantity of epidermal layer, dermal layer, and horny layer of the human skin by applying microwave to the skin and measuring wave reflected from the skin comprises a microwave oscillator (A) of small oscillation output which is coupled via circulator (4) and a probe (8) to the skin. Reflected waves attenuated by moisture quantity within the skin are received by probe (8) and moisture quantity is measured by detecting variation of the stationary wave due to reflection with a reflected wave receiver (B). The oscillator (A) and receiver (B) are coupled to a waveguide at one of which is attached probe (8), the latter being in the form of a hemispherical glass probe provided with coaxial probes. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2163880-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to clocks
Inventor: BARTH MANFRED
IPC: G04C9/00
Filed: 1985-07-15
Abstract: A clock having a setting arrangement for the reversal of the direction of rotation of the hands and the electrical control of an electric drive motor, especially a clock 13 which can be incorporated into a motor-vehicle dash-board and is therefore accessible only from the dial-plate side. The setting arrangement includes an adjusting mechanism 39 for reversing the direction of rotation in gearing 11 between the motor rotor 17 and the hand mechanism 12, by means of a coupling gear 25, 26 which drives a minute wheel 24 either directly or else by way of an intermediate wheel 28 connected additionally into the gearing. Preferably, a manual axial displacement of the coupling gear leads not only to this gearwise change-over, but also to the actuation of an electro-mechanical switch 43 for the control of a circuit 20 for the control of the motor 14 in an unchanged direction of rotation. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2178638-A (GB)
Title: Preparation of animal feeds
Inventor: RALPH DAVID
IPC: A23K1/00
Filed: 1985-08-08
Abstract: Animal feed is prepared by mixing requisite quantities of said aqueous and fatty liquids into a homogeneous mixture and mixing requisite quantities of said homogeneous mixture with dry meal to form an animal feedstuff. As shown, preparing an animal feedstuff by combining aqueous fatty liquid and other liquids are supplied via electropneumatic control valves (27, 28) to vessel (2) and molasses, other liquid and water are supplied via control valves (9, 10, 11) to vessel (1). The liquids from vessel (1) are mixed with emulsifier (37) by opening valve (36) and then the mix is recycled to (11) by opening valve (43). The fatty liquid is now added to vessel (1) by opening valve (33) and the resulting emulsion is discharged via valve (38) and then mixed with dry meal. Alternatively, aqueous and fatty liquids may be mixed in a single vessel (Fig. 6). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2166489-A (GB)
Title: Retractable door stop
Inventor: WATERS JAMES SIMPSON
IPC: E05C17/50
Filed: 1985-10-01
Abstract: A door stop, intended in use to hold shut an inward opening door and/or to allow the door to be opened to only a limited extent, is also retractable to allow the door to be fully opened and closed without hindrance; and comprises a barrel (11) which, in use, is screwed or otherwise fixed to the floor or the wall reveal adjacent the closing edge of the door and inside the room or other area to which the door gives access; a spigot (12,13) which, when the door (19) is to be held shut, protrudes from the barrel (11) to bear against or adjacent the room- facing surface of the door (19) and which, when the door (19) is to be opened and closed without hindrance, is retractable into the barrel (11) so as not to impede the passage of the door edge; means (12a, 13a, 14, 15) enabling the spigot to be moved alternately into its protruding and its retracted positions by a user's hand or foot; and means tending positively to retain the spigot in its protruding position once the spigot has been moved into that position; the spigot (12, 13) comprising a substantially flat bar, and the means enabling the spigot to be moved into and out of its protruding position including a pivot (14, 15) linking one end of the bar to the barrel (11) so that the bar swings about the pivot into and out of the barrel; the spigot (12, 13) being swung about its pivot out of the barrel, upwards through an arc of more than 90 DEG  and then encounters resistance which prevents it from completing 180 DEG  swing whereby the spigot is retained in its protruding position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-853263-A (GB)
Abstract: 853,263. Non-contact-making relays. SANGAMO WESTON Ltd. Feb. 14, 1957 [April 19, 1956], No. 5119/57. Class 40 (9). A thermal converter with a linear response of output current to input current over a wide range, comprises a thermo-electric element 3 followed by a linear direct current amplifier 9 and a cathode follower 14, negative feed-back being provided through a second thermoelectric element 11. A measuring-device 15 is included in the output circuit. In the cathode follower circuit, Fig. 2, the anode voltage is stabilized by a diode 21 and the grid voltage of tube 18 is limited by a silicon diode 25 to avoid overloading the element 11. An inductor 28 reduces output ripple which may be a source of error when the input signals are of low frequency. The converter may be used in a computer for converting from an analogue to a digital system.
Patent GB-2175684-A (GB)
Title: Burner
Inventor: FUKUDA SHUZO
IPC: F23D14/24
Filed: 1986-04-23
Abstract: A burner, for heating metals without causing oxydation, comprises combustion air outlets 2 spaced circumferentially around an inner wall 6 of an open-ended tubular burner body 1. Fuel gas outlets 3 are arranged centrally of the body, the air outlets and the gas outlets being constructed in such manner that; 
 
  (a) each combustion air outlet has an angle of not more than 60 DEG with respect to a tangent of an inner circumference of the burner body; 
  (b) a distance N in an axial direction of the burner between the combustion air outlets and the fuel gas outlets is determined from -0.1D to +0.4D (D: inner diameter of burner): when a fuel gas outlet is positioned nearer the exit of the burner body than a combustion air outlet, the value is (-), and in the contrary case thereof is (+); and 
  (c) a distance L from the combustion air outlet to the exit of the burner body is determined from 0.6D to 3D. 
 
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Patent GB-2179147-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to eye-gaze-direction controlled apparatus
Inventor: DOWNING ANDREW RICHARD
IPC: G06F3/048
Filed: 1985-12-24
Abstract: Eye-gaze-direction controlled apparatus including eye-gaze-direction determining means to detect a direction of gaze of any eye of a user, which means are also adapted to determine a relative position of the direction of eye gaze with respect to a target direction (8), said means further adapted to mesure and record a plurality of eye-gaze-directions (a-h) each measure being taken between sequentially selected intervals of time and to provide an ''activate'' or ''identify for subsequent action'' signal upon at least a preselected proportion of a preselected number of sequentially measured directions being detected which are within a preselected range of positions from the target direction bounded by boundaries (9, 10, 11, 12).
Patent GB-2197358-A (GB)
Title: Interlocking building block
Inventor: HAENER JUAN
IPC: E04B2/46
Filed: 1986-11-12
Abstract: A block of concrete or the like for use in constructing a mortarless wall is provided which includes a spaced parallel pair of upright sidewalls 22 and 24 having flat bottoms and tops and bearing integral block interlocking connectors 32 and 33 on their opposite ends. The sidewalls are integrally connected to one or more transverse webs 26 extending from the bottom of the sidewalls to above the tops thereof. Parallel slits 54 may divide the upper end of the web into knock- off portions for installation of reinforcing bars. Each web has a central concavity 64 in the upper end of at least one opposite side thereof, which concavity slope down into a complimentary central bottom convexity 66. The web tapers in thickness from bottom to top. The concavity and convexity can be triangular, dish-shaped, rectangular, etc. The webs define cells in the block when a number of the blocks are vertically stacked in staggered array to form a wall. The webs make point or line contact with each other to interlock and prevent horizontal displacement, while presenting staggered cells and maximum surface area for adhesion to reinforcing concrete poured into the cells. The block is inexpensive, durable, strong and easy to use. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2197193-A (GB)
Title: Preparing vaccines
Inventor: KAVANAGH NOEL T
IPC: A61K39/102
Filed: 1986-11-14
Abstract: An autogenous vaccine e.g. Haemophilus Pleuropneumonia vaccine is obtained by growing bacteria in a liquid culture medium at 37 DEG C for 6 to 48 hours. The bacterial suspension is checked for purity and a sterilisation fluid comprising Thiomersal and Formalin is then added. The suspension is incubated at 37 DEG C for typically 48 hours. After 24 and 48 hours sterility checks are carried out by immersing a swab in the suspension, inoculating a blood agar plate and incubating the plate at 37 DEG C for between 48 hours aerobically. The plates are then examined for sterility. A second sterility check includes inoculating the vaccine into a Thioglycollate broth and soya bean-casein digest media.
Patent GB-2187490-A (GB)
Title: Charging of explosives into boreholes
Inventor: FRANCKE ISADORE EDWARD
IPC: F42D1/10
Filed: 1987-01-09
Abstract: A method of charging a pumpable explosives into a borehole involves pumping the pumpable explosive into the borehole 58 and, while the explosive is being pumped into the borehole, mixing a sensitizing agent into the explosive to enable gas bubbles of size 70 to 200 microns in diameter to be formed in the explosive. The assembly 10 for effecting the above method comprises a container 30 for a pumpable unsensitized explosive, a container 32 for sensitizing agent and a pump 14 for pumping explosive. The assembly includes a mixing device 52, and the containers 30, 32 have outlets connected to the pump inlet. The mixing device 52 is connected, in series with the pump outlet, to the pump 14. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2201259-A (GB)
Title: Positioning control
Inventor: GRUITERS GERHARD WILHELM
IPC: G05D3/12
Filed: 1987-01-30
Abstract: Positioning apparatus for driving a member (10) to any one of a plurality of predetermined destinations, comprising a bi-directional A.C. electric motor (14), location means (19) associated with said member and having identification means (20) for each of said destinations, sensor means (18) for producing a signal on sensing said identification moans, and a control system for the motor; the control system comprising input means for selecting the desired one of said destinations, means for causing the motor to drive said member towards the selected destination at a first speed, means responsive to the one of said signals which denotes the arrival of the member at the selected destination to stop the motor, means for then causing the motor to drive said member in the opposite direction at a second speed slower than the first speed to compensate for over-run of said member, and means to stop the motor in response to the re-detection by the sensor means of the identification means for the desired destination. The second speed mode of the motor is achieved by removing portions of the A.C. waveform used to energise the motor, switching taking place only during zero crossings of the A.C. waveform. The member (10) may be a frame movable to different positions to receive different sizes of copy sheets in a xerographic copier. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2212728-A (GB)
Title: Educational apparatus board game
Inventor: TYE WILLIAM JOHN
IPC: A63F3/00
Filed: 1987-12-01
Abstract: The game has a board (1) including a track, a plurality of models of commercial vehicles and a plurality of load elements for cooperation with said vehicles; the load elements each bear a concealable indication indicative of a load value weight or monetary value and in that at least one of said elements is positionable upon a respective vehicle with its indication concealed from view. As particularly described and shown, each load element has the value on the base so that the value may be concealed when the load elements are positioned on flat backs of the vehicle (lorries). The track has positions, some of which include instructions and there are 'forfeit' cards. A 'referee' in the form of a police car model is adapted to move round the board stopping lorries when both end up at same position to act to prevent illegal loads being carried between loading bay and unloading bay - fines may be levied. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2219232-A (GB)
Title: Molten metal pouring apparatus
Inventor: LILLICRAP DOUGLAS COLIN
IPC: B22D41/05
Filed: 1988-06-03
Abstract: Molten metal pouring apparatus comprises a tiltable vessel (1) having a discharge nozzle (3) above the normal level of molten metal (6) in the vessel (1), there being an electrical induction coil (4) about the nozzle (3) to control discharge therefrom when the vessel (1) is tilted. The apparatus is constructed in to maintain a substantially constant discharge stream trajectory with electromagnetically controlled flow rate regulation. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2227590-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle message display system
Inventor: DODD TIMOTHY CHARLES
IPC: G09F9/33
Filed: 1988-10-19
Abstract: A vehicle message display system comprises a rear window message panel having a horizontal row of LED alpha- numeric display units, a microprocessor control (18) including a memory for storing messages which can be input prior to sale from a detachable input device (20), and a driver accessible keypad (24) for causing display of a selected message. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2227763-A (GB)
Title: Spacing apart panels of false floor
Inventor: BLACKLIN PETER A
IPC: E04F15/024
Filed: 1989-02-01
Abstract: Gridding members are used for contacting and spacing the floor panels from one another as they are installed. Spacers 40 or 50 may be used. The installed panels are sufficiently spaced apart that any one or more of the panels may be removed and replaced by any geometrically similar replacement panel or panels. Suitable for panels having legs and panels not having legs, and further is suitable for panels having any overall configuration, including rectangular panels and triangular panels. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2215974-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for moving silage
Inventor: SHEPHERD DAVID HENRY
IPC: A01F25/18
Filed: 1989-02-15
Abstract: Apparatus for clearing silage in a cow-shed comprises two silage pushing gates 18 connected to a main frame support 10 by a rigid linkage 24 pivoted by rod 29, at least to the main frame 10. The linkage 24 is preferably of a parallelogram type so that when said gates 24 move apart under the action of pistons 32 to push the silage sidewards, they remain substantially perpendicular to the support frame 10. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2233381-A (GB)
Title: Joints for Masonry and Sheet Material Structures
Inventor: HARDY SAMUEL FRANCIS
IPC: E04F13/04
Filed: 1989-05-27
Abstract: A cover strip (5) for forming in internal joint between a pair of wall sheets (10), the cover strip (5) having inner legs (6) and outer legs (7) offset outwardly from the inner legs (6) by land portions (9). The outer legs (7) and land portions (9) are apertured for accepting a settable material (13) for securing the legs (7) and portions (9) to the sheets (10) so that a space is defined in the area between the inner legs (6) and wall sheets (10). A method of forming such a joint is also disclosed, wherein the inner legs are used as a plastering level, the plaster tapering down over outer legs 7. In modifications there may be formed cornices, archetraves or mouldings with one or both sets of inner 6 and outer 7 legs, or the strip may be flat. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2222215-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for assembling and removing seal members in sub-sea operations on fluid-carrying pipes.
Inventor: BUCKLEY NORMAN
IPC: F16L1/26
Filed: 1989-06-15
Abstract: A tool for assembling and/or removing a seal member (1) with or from the sub-sea end of a pipe section (5) comprises a frame (13) for location relative to the pipe end and carrying a device (15, 30) for engaging the seal member, the device being supported in the frame for movement relative to the pipe end between a position in axial alignment with the pipe end for assembling or removing the seal member and a position spaced from the pipe end to permit other operations to be performed on the pipe end. The tool may comprise two devices one for assembling the seal member and one for removing the seal member which are mounted on a mounting member (16) movable transversely of the pipe end between positions aligning one of the devices with the pipe end and a position enabling the support member to be moved axially of the pipe end away from the pipe end without interference with the pipe end. The mounting member (16) is movable transversely of the pipe end relative to a support member (23) which is movable axially relative to the frame. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2234640-A (GB)
Title: Fire-proof transit
Inventor: JAMES GEOFFREY WILLIAM
IPC: H02G3/22
Filed: 1989-08-03
Abstract: A transit or passthrough unit for temporary services through a cavity wall partition, comprises a pipe 11 which extends between two annular mounting plates 12, a pair of cover plates 13 for sealing plates 12 and a sleeve of fire-retardant material which surrounds the pipe 11. A draw string (18 Fig 2) on the sleeve closes it around the service (19 Fig 3) to form a smoke resistant seal. A neoprene seal (15 Fig 4) is provided between plates 12 & 13. The transit is installed in the partition with plates 13 in place. These are removed and the free ends of the sleeves (16 Fig 2) drawn out. An intumescent collar (20 Fig 4) may be provided around a uPVC pipe 11 so that on softening the pipe is crushed by the swelling collar to form a fire-proof barrier. For long passsthroughs, particularly including a bend, the sleeve 14 is in two parts each attached to the plate 12 or the pipe 11 adjacent the plate. For long passthroughs a cable pull is provided. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2226577-A (GB)
Title: Sewing machine with folding and ironing means
Inventor: OGAWA YOSHITAKE
IPC: B29C65/00
Filed: 1989-11-15
Abstract: A sewing machine provided with guide means and ironing means having an ultrasonic heating means. The guide means folds back the free margins of an upper and lower fabric pieces, and the folded margins are pressed or ironed by the ultrasonic heating means. The ultrasonic heating means includes an ultrasonic horn and an anvil relatively movable toward and away from each other. A thickness detector is provided for detecting a combined thickness of the upper and lower fabric pieces, and control means is also provided for controlling one of the heating energy of the ultrasonic heating means and a distance between the horn and the anvil in response to the detected thickness.
Patent GB-2245536-A (GB)
Title: A conveyor belt
Inventor: ROBINSON JEAN
IPC: B65G15/34
Filed: 1990-06-30
Abstract: A conveyor belt has different stretch characteristics across its width such that the sides thereof have a lower modulus of elasticity than the central portion.
Patent GB-2235703-A (GB)
Title: Webbing for safety belts
Inventor: CHIKARAISHI TSUNEO
IPC: B60R22/12
Filed: 1990-08-15
Abstract: Webbing 1 for a safety belt is such that at least a portion of longitudinal edge regions 2, 3 having a predetermined width from at least one longitudinal edge toward the center in the transverse direction of the belt is a comparatively pliable woven structure, and a portion other than this comparatively pliable woven structure is a comparatively stiff woven structure. The central portion may be a 2/2 twill weave and the edges may be a rib weave or ship twill.
Patent GB-2234368-A (GB)
Title: Valves
Inventor: JACKSON PETER JOSEPH
IPC: G05D16/16
Filed: 1990-09-05
Abstract: A pilot operated valve comprises a planar flexible valve member (13), and an inlet port 14 surrounded by a number of openings (15) leading to an outlet port 3, the inlet port and the openings being in the same plane and communication between the inlet port and the openings being prevented by the flexible valve member (12) lying across the inlet port, 12, the inlet port 14 and the openings being formed in the end face of a cylindrical insert portion 49 rotatable in the valve body, the openings being joined by paraxial passages 15 to an annular groove 51 in the insert which communicates with the outlet port, 3, the insert further having a radial passage 53 which, by rotation of the insert, may be selectively positioned to provide direct fluid communication between the inlet and outlet ports 14 and 3. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2237900-A (GB)
Title: Idling speed control of a multiple throttle I.C. engine
Inventor: SERRA GABRIELE
IPC: F02M13/02
Filed: 1990-10-10
Abstract: A system for controlling the idling speed of an IC engine having a plurality of throttled bodies (1) regulating the air supply to at least one cylinder wherein a mechanical device (7) operated by a pedal (8) synchronously controls the setting of the throttles (6) on the aforementioned bodies (1). The control system comprising an electronic control system (3) for processing input signals relative to parameters and operating conditions of the vehicle and/or engine, and an actuating device (5) controlled by the electronic control system (3) and designed, at idling speed, to arrest the position of the mechanical device (7) and therefore also the setting of the plurality of throttles (6) and so regulate the idling speed of the engine. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2249565-A (GB)
Title: Tongue-and-groove roof tiles
Inventor: CAIRNS PETER MICHAEL
IPC: E04D1/16
Filed: 1990-11-09
Abstract: A roofing tile has a projecting tongue from one long edge, and a corresponding groove 12 formed in the opposed long edge, whereby each tile interlocks with its next adjacent tiles in the same row, when constructing a roof. Clips are nailed to the battens, each clip having a hook portion 30 adapted to fit into the groove 12 of an adjacent tile, and an arm 31 connecting the hook portion 30 to a boss through which extends a nail 41. Each tile has an elongate peg 18 at its upper end by means of which the tile is hooked on to a batten 36: two nail holes are formed through the peg which holes are angled so that nails 37 passing therethrough are driven into a side face of the batten. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2241346-A (GB)
Title: Lens-driving device
Inventor: TAKAHASHI HIROYUKI
IPC: G02B7/10
Filed: 1991-02-15
Abstract: A lens-driving device for a camera including a photographing lens having one or more specific lens groups displaceable in a direction along the optical axis comprising, a lens drive-means for driving said specific lens group between a ready-for-photographing position (Fig. 2B) and an accommodated position (Fig. 2A); and, means for controlling the movement of the lens group, by the lens drive-means, back to the ready-for-photographing position as it was just before an accommodating operation from the accommodated position. Autofocus (AF) and power zoom (PZ) motors may be used for the above lens movement. <IMAGE>