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Patent GB-2171204-A (GB)
Title: Temperature sensitive probes
Inventor: CONNOLLY STEPHEN
IPC: G01K13/02
Filed: 1985-02-02
Abstract: A platinum resistance thermometer or thermocouple comprises a probe 18 connected by wires 19 to a cable 20. A cylindrical cantilever support member 17 extends well into the space the temperature of which is to be sensed and is formed of a low heat-conducting material. The wires 19 are wrapped around the outside of the member 17. Thus the wires and support member adjacent the probe achieve the ambient temperature. The temperature gradient from the inside of the space to the outside is experienced by the wires and support at a distance from the probe, so avoiding conduction of heat away from the probe and consequent inaccuracy in temperature sensing. In a second embodiment the wires may extend inside the support, which is apertured or formed in open mesh configuration. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2159081-A (GB)
Title: Method of forming flanges on a tube
Inventor: CROFTS JOHN ANTHONY
IPC: B21D17/02
Filed: 1985-05-17
Abstract: A method of forming first and second flanges on a tube for example on upright tube (11) of a clothes dryer, the first flange being formed at the end of the tube (11) and the second flange being formed at a position spaced from the end thereof, said method including the steps of gripping the tube with a clamping means (30) with a length (33) of the tube (11) projecting from the clamping means (30), inserting a mandrel (36) into the end of the tube (11) to bring a forming part (37) of the mandrel (36) into engagement with said end, moving the mandrel (36) further into the tube (11) a first distance axially of the tube (11) to cause the end of the tube to be deformed into a recess (38) in the forming part (37) of the mandrel (36) to form said first flange, preventing further deformation of the end of the tube (11), moving the mandrel (36) axially further into the tube (11) a second distance, to cause a portion of the projecting length (33) of the tube (11) adjacent the clamping means (30) to be deformed into a recess (34) of the clamping means (30) to form said second flange, and withdrawing the mandrel (36). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2164316-A (GB)
Title: Wrapping for bagpacks and a process and apparatus for producing it
Inventor: FOCKE HEINZ
IPC: B65B11/28
Filed: 1985-09-06
Abstract: In a wrapping (10) Fig 5 for tobacco bagpacks of the twistbag type (11) a longitudinal edge strip (17) with a longitudinal welding seam (18) is folded round against a wrapping wall (19, 20) and fixed at the ends by means of transverse welding seams (21, 22). The wrapping is formed by feeding bagpack (11), Fig 6, against a wrapping 13 to carry it into a pocket 26 of a rotary turret. The longitudinal edge of the wrapping is welded by jaws 29, 30 and then folded by guide 31 as the turret rotates. At the next station the welded edge is folded against the wrapping wall by member 33 and held in this position by welding produced as transverse end welds are formed by jaws 35, 36. The wrapping may incorporate a tear strip 15, Fig 5. …<IMAGE>…
Patent GB-2189472-A (GB)
Title: Device for filling anaesthetic vaporiser
Inventor: ROLLINS NEIL
IPC: A61M16/14
Filed: 1986-04-19
Abstract: A device 1 for filling an anaesthetic vaporiser with a volatile liquid anaesthetic includes two tubes, one being used to convey liquid anaesthetic from a container to a vaporiser and the other permitting the flow of air and/or anaesthetic gas from the vaporiser to the container. The tubes are coaxial, and lead to openings 11, 12 in a member 2 designed to be inserted in an aperture in the vaporiser. A one-way valve assembly is provided for permitting the passage through the air tube 10 of air and/or anaesthetic gas only from the vaporiser towards the container, thereby preventing or inhibiting the possibility of the air tube 10 being filled with liquid anaesthetic. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2185748-A (GB)
Title: Method of making particle boards
Inventor: SOUDA YASUNORI
IPC: B27N1/00
Filed: 1986-06-11
Abstract: In a method of making water-resistant particle boards by molding and adhering chips or flakes of wood or other vegetable fiber material together by the use of adhesive, the chips or flakes are first heated at a temperature of 100 DEG C to 200 DEG C at least for one hour in an atmosphere of 95% or more of incombustible gas while rotating said chips or flakes, whereby water and sap contained in said chips or flakes is substantially completely removed, prior to the adhering of said chips or flakes.
Patent GB-2179613-A (GB)
Title: A helicopter weight and torque advisory system
Inventor: ADELSON RICHARD L
IPC: B64C27/00
Filed: 1986-07-31
Abstract: A helicopter weight and torque advisory system for connection to cargo hook load sensors, fuel flow, air temperature and altitude indicating systems of a helicopter. The advisory system provides the flight crew of the helicopter information as to available engine torque, gross weight, gross weight center of gravity condition, and weight supported by each cargo hook as an external sling load is raised and supported by the helicopter. Also information as to required engine torque for maximum helicopter range and endurance performance is provided. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2196950-A (GB)
Title: Infant feeding system
Inventor: PLAPHONGPHANICH VICHAI
IPC: A61J11/00
Filed: 1986-11-08
Abstract: A baby's feeding bottle comprises an open casing 13 associated with a number of original sterile packages 28 each of which comprises a folded bag 14 secured to a ring 12. The bag can be unfolded and mounted in the casing by means of the ring. The sterile package also includes a nipple 11 formed with an open lower end defined by a solid annulus, a circular base 16, and a lock washer 17, the base and washer having a one-way fastening means for locking them in a fixed position. The base 16 is reversed and snap- engaged with the ring 12 after the bag 14 has been filled. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2183038-A (GB)
Title: Process for the prediction and detection of earthquakes
Inventor: ADAM ANTAL
IPC: G01V1/00
Filed: 1986-11-11
Abstract: Seismological measurements are carried out at test sites and simultaneously the physical and/or geophysical and/or geochemical and/or geodetic, as well as biological and microbiological parameters are measured, at three levels, namely underground, at and above ground level. Additionally, the changes of these parameters in space and with time are also measured, the measured values are transmitted, recorded and evaluated so as to determine their amplitude, time- dependence, periodicity and frequency spectrum and the course and rate of the changes. Also, the measured and determined values are compared in space and time to themselves and/or to the value of one or more of the other parameter(s), the relative intensity and sequentiality or time-series of the individual parameters or groups of such parameters as well as their increments are determined; and, taking due account of the geological and rheological features of the site, the sequentiality or time-series is/are extrapolated and the danger of earthquake is signalled in all cases in which as a result of the extrapolation in respect of at least two independent parameters a critical value is obtained, the critical value having been previously determined empirically. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2184625-A (GB)
Title: Inductive circuit arrangements
Inventor: MANSFIELD PETER
IPC: G01R33/385
Filed: 1986-12-16
Abstract: A switched coil arrangement is connected in a bridge configuration of four switches S1, S2, S3 and S4 which are each shunted by diodes D1, D2, D3 and D4 so that current can flow in either direction through a coil L depending on the setting of the switches. A capacitor C is connected across the bridge through a switch S5 to receive the inductive energy stored in coil L on breaking the current flow path through the coil. The electrostatic energy stored in capacitor C can then be used to supply current through the coil in the reverse direction either immediately or after a time delay. Coil L may be a superconductive coil. Losses in the circuit can be made up by a trickle charge of capacitor C from a separate supply V2. The device may be used in nuclear magnetic resonance imaging. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2185066-A (GB)
Title: Clamp in the form of a one piece flexible closure
Inventor: BOVILLE DANIEL
IPC: F16L3/12
Filed: 1986-12-17
Abstract: The clamp is moulded in one piece from an elastomeric plastics material and has a semi-cylindrical portion 52 forming a flexible spring, a fixed jaw 54 consisting of one of the end portions of the portion 52, and a substantially semi-cylindrical movable jaw 42 articulated, at an intermediate point along its length, to the other end of the portion 52 by a first thin pliable external hinge 44, and at one of its ends to a toggle portion 46 by a hinge 48, the toggle portion 46 itself being articulated by a second thin pliable external hinge 50 to the portion 52 at a point offset relative to the free end of the fixed jaw 54, the sum of the distances between the internal hinge 48 which articulates the movable jaw 42 on the knuckle-joint portion 46 and the external hinges 44 and 50 being greater than the distance between the external hinges 44 and 50 when the portion 52 forming the spring is in a released condition, and being slightly shorter than the developed length of said portion 52 forming the spring. A resilient tongue 64 connected to the toggle portion 46 serves to hold a member being clamped and is capable of holding members of very small diameter but does not obstruct the mouth of the clamp when the latter is open. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2201858-A (GB)
Title: Active noise control
Inventor: ELLIOTT STEPHEN JOHN
IPC: F16F15/02
Filed: 1986-12-19
Abstract: To reduce noise inside a motor car passenger compartment, two loudspeakers 371, 372 are driven by signals derived from a reference signal x(n) by adaptive filtering carried out by a programmed microprocessor and memory unit 36 which adapts the filtering in dependence on error signals el(n) from four microphones 421, 422, 423 and 424 distributed in the passenger compartment. Reference filtering coefficients are initially determined by analysis of finite impulse responses when white noise is acoustically coupled from the loudspeakers 37 to the microphones 42, a white noise generator 48 being coupled to the unit 36. The reference signal x(n) is restricted to one or more selected harmonics or subharmonics of the fundamental noise frequency by a filter 34 which tracks the selected frequency. The selected frequency may be obtained from a coil 31 in the ignition circuit. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2186562-A (GB)
Title: A method of precipitation of harmful substances from flue gases
Inventor: BENZEL MARTIN
IPC: B01D53/50
Filed: 1986-12-23
Abstract: In a first stage flue ash as well as a part of the SO2 are separated, then, in a second stage, a further part of SO2 as well as NOx is separated onto active charcoal and/or active coke. The active charcoal/active coke thereby charged with harmful substances is finally fed as fuel to the furnace, so that the need for expensive regeneration is abolished.
Patent GB-2188345-A (GB)
Title: Mutually engageable panels
Inventor: GILL NORMAN DOUGLAS
IPC: E04B2/72
Filed: 1987-01-12
Abstract: A pair of mutually engageable structural panels A, B have opposed longitudinal edges provided with interlocking head and socket portions. In one embodiment (Fig. 1) the head portion 9 has a groove 13 at one side in which a rib 7 of the socket portion 5 is engaged to provide a pivot about which the head is rotated into the socket portion. The opposite edge 6 of the socket portion 5 preferably travels smoothly over the head as the panels are engaged and disengaged. In another embodiment (Fig. 4) the head portion 23 is joined to the panel by a neck portion which is off set from the mid plane of the panel and a curved slot 26 is defined between the head portion 23 and an adjacent surface of the panel to receive an edge of the socket portion 20. In this embodiment the angular relationship of the panels can be adjusted whilst maintaining the engagement. Numerous building uses are specified together with the use of the Fig. 4 construction as a roller shutter. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2196386-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable i.c. engine intake valve guide and baffle
Inventor: FROST DEREK
IPC: F01L3/08
Filed: 1987-03-17
Abstract: The intake valve guide 18 is mounted slidably and/or rotatably relative to the intake port 10 to enable the cross section of the intake port 10 to the restricted in the immediate vicinity of the intake valve 12. The guide 18 may adjust the position of a resilient vane (54, Figs. 3 and 4). The guide may regulate the speed, swirl or turbulence in accordance with throttle position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2202823-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to containers
Inventor: MORTON MILTON THOMAS
IPC: B65D33/18
Filed: 1987-03-24
Abstract: A tamper evident container e.g. bag, is formed of sheet material and has an opening (9) in the sheet material to provide access to the interior of the container. Film material (20) is attached to the sheet material adjacent to the opening (9) and a flap portion (4) of the container is adhered (8) to the film material (20) to close the opening (9). The tear strength of the film material (20) is less than the bond strength of the adhesive (8) so that attempts to pull apart the flap portion (4) and the film material (20) cause tearing of the film material (20). The adhesive (8) may be provided on the flap portion and/ or on the film material (20), and covered by a release masking tape (7). The film material (20) may be micro perforated and printed with a solvent soluble dye, or said dye may be provided on the bag wall beneath the film material (20), so that if the adhesive (8) is treated with a solvent staining will become visible. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2207608-A (GB)
Title: Electronic action game
Inventor: PUI-KAU PO
IPC: A63F9/30
Filed: 1987-07-27
Abstract: An electronic game device comprises a hammer (H1) and a game surface bearing a plurality of LEDs and a plurality of microswitches (SW1-5). A microcomputer illuminates selectively single one's of the LEDs, records the number of correct hits and the elapsed time. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2210737-A (GB)
Title: Portable vehicle service unit
Inventor: WOOLDRIDGE DAVID JAMES
IPC: F02N11/12
Filed: 1987-08-26
Abstract: A portable unit 1 for assisting in the servicing of a vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine is connectable via a cable 5 and socket 3 to the vehicle's battery and via sockets 7 and 11 to the ignition and starter motor of the engine to allow the operator to selectively energise the ignition circuit and crank the engine without needing to use the controls of the vehicle. The unit has ready and crank buttons which require the operator to remove both hands from the engine when it is to be cranked. Sockets 41 to 43 for accessories, such as a stobe light or under bonnet light, and a continuity tester 50, e.g. for checking points, are also provided. The unit may be attached to the vehicle by magnets, a non-slip pad, or suction pads. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2208977-A (GB)
Title: An electrical connector
Inventor: WANG PATRICK SHUI-CHUNG
IPC: H01R4/24
Filed: 1987-10-01
Abstract: The connector is in the form of a terminal portion (12) of a cummutator segment and has two overlying parts (18 and 19 or 18 and 20). Each part is provided with a slot (21, 22) open at one end and the two slots (21 and 22) are arranged so as to be only partly in register with one another so that the resulting slot (16) in the terminal portion is narrower than each of the slots (21 and 22) in the two overlying parts and is open at one end for receiving and gripping an armature winding portion. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2211282-A (GB)
Title: Waste-heat boiler
Inventor: BELYAEV SERGEI ALEXEEVICH
IPC: F22B1/18
Filed: 1987-10-20
Abstract: A waste-heat boiler comprises a walled main gas conduit (1) having heat-transfer surfaces (2) for generating steam from heat recovered from waste gases and adjacent peripheral gas conduits (3,6) with furnaces (4, 7) provided with burners and heat-transfer surfaces (5, 8). All the gas conduits (1, 3, 6) are horizontal, the two peripheral gas conduits (3, 6) adjoining the main gas conduit (1) in the lower area of its side walls (9). Steam generated in the main gas conduit is superheated in the peripheral gas conduits by operation of the furnace burners. The boiler can be used in the metallurgical oil refining, wood-pulp and paper industries. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2212222-A (GB)
Title: Dispensing apparatus
Inventor: HOWLETT DAVID JOHN
IPC: B65D83/14
Filed: 1987-11-10
Abstract: Dispensing apparatus (1) comprises a valve (2) defining a chamber (8) and having an inlet duct (15) communicating with the chamber, a tube (3) having an end portion (19) mating with the inlet duct for the delivery of a first fluid to the chamber, and tap means (23) for admitting a second fluid to the chamber wherein the outer surface of the end portion and the inner surface of the duct cooperate to define at least one passageway (23) through the inlet duct facilitating the flow of the second fluid to thereby constitute the tap means. A vapour tap is thereby formed with minimal complexity to the valve moulding operation. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2213702-A (GB)
Title: A device for dispensing liquids
Inventor: TONG CHI LOK
IPC: A47J41/00
Filed: 1987-12-18
Abstract: A liquids dispensing device comprising a first container for holding and dispensing a first liquid, a second container for holding and dispensing a second liquid, a closure for covering the open ends of the first and second containers and an adjusting means for adjusting the flow of the liquids from their respective containers. The second container, being in the form of a vacuum vessel, is disposed within the first container which takes the form of a jug comprising an outer wall, an inner wall and a bottom wall. At least two apertures are provided on the closure, one of which being normally in communication with the first container and another being normally in communication with the second container. The flows of liquid from the two containers are adjusted in inverse proportion by the closure means. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2215445-A (GB)
Title: Defrosting freezers
Inventor: HAWKINS SUSAN
IPC: F25D21/14
Filed: 1988-03-15
Abstract: A water collector 8 for use in defrosting a freezer is formed of flexible polyethene material in the manner of a plastic food bag, and is of conical shape. The wide end has a strip 13 of adhesive therearound on the outside for attaching the collector to the base and adjacent side wall portions of the freezer to form a mouth through which defrost water may enter the collector. The narrow end is either closed if water is to be collected in the collector or has an opening if water is to be collected in the collector or has an opening if water is to be directed into a further receptacle 9. The collector may be formed from a sheet of polythene material upturned edges thereof forming a channel for defrost water (Fig 5). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2204001-A (GB)
Title: Roof structure for modular vehicle body
Inventor: KUMASAKA HIDEYUKI
IPC: B62D25/06
Filed: 1988-03-28
Abstract: The roof structure 10 has a plurality of independent sections, a pair of roof side rails 12f constituting part of body side assemblies 12, a front roof rail 16, a rear roof rail 18, and a roof 14. The front rail 16 extends between the front ends of the side rails 12f and is mechanically fastened to them by matched flanges 38 and brackets 46. The rear rail 18 extends between the rear ends of the side rails 12f and is attached to them in the same way the front rail 16. The roof 14 is provided with brackets 28, 30 and 26 which are respectively placed on the front rail 16, rear rail 18, and side rails 12f and mechanically fastened to them by bolts. Alternatively, the fastening may be by bonding. 
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Patent GB-2217501-A (GB)
Title: Display device
Inventor: CRIPPS NIGEL
IPC: G09F15/00
Filed: 1988-04-13
Abstract: A display comprises a vertical support 1 element which carries a plurality of spaced-apart horizontal bars 7. Each bar defines as upwardly extending recess and a downwardly extending recess. The facing recesses of adjacent bars receive, in a sliding manner, the opposed edges of a panel 12. At least some of the bars are removably mounted in position. The display may be rotated by brackets 4,5 to face the general traffic flow outside a shop window. Panels could be mounted on both sides and carry items for sale instead of information. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2218382-A (GB)
Title: Shopping trolley with baby carrier
Inventor: FLAGG JOHN DUNCAN FREDERICK
IPC: B62B3/14
Filed: 1988-05-11
Abstract: The trolley comprises a shopping basket 3 for carrying goods intended to be purchased, a low-level baby cradle 4 having a safety strap 7, a child seat 8 located above the baby cradle also provided with a safety strap 9, both baby cradle and child seat being oriented such that the baby lies and the child sits transverse to the normal pushing direction. For stability, both baby cradle 4 and child seat 8 lie above the area substantially bounded by the trolley wheels. A cover 6 is provided for the baby cradle 4 to prevent injury from falling goods. To enable the trolley to pass through a checkout with a width restriction, two side handles 5 are provided to enable the trolley to be pushed in a direction perpendicular to its normal pushing direction in which it is pushed using handle 2. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2218442-A (GB)
Title: Retrievable well packer
Inventor: BRADDICK BRITT OLIVER
IPC: E21B33/1295
Filed: 1988-08-26
Abstract: A retrievable packer arrangement that can be used as a permanent production packer employs a simple compression set packer (P) which can be either mechanically, hydraulically or wireline explosively set and retrieved by coupled or coiled pipe or wireline. The arrangement includes an adapter (A) supported by the setting tool (ST) which surrounds an external seal surface (38) on the upper end of an inner tubular member (I) which seal surface is exposed after the packer arrangement is set in a well bore tubular member by release of the setting tool (ST) from the inner member (I) and removal of the adapter (A) therewith, so that a production string may then sealingly telescope over the inner member upper end. An outer member (O) includes release means adjacent its upper external end including an external grapple engaging surface means (100) so that the packer arrangement can be released without engaging the packer (P) or slips (76, 76') which secure the packer arrangement in the tubular member and without inserting any mechanism in the set packer arrangement. The packer arrangement provides an unrestricted bore for well tools and flow from the well. The invention also contemplates lowering a landing nipple into a well bore tubular member to a desired location and sealably anchoring it at that location by a retrievable packer, for subsequent removal by a grapple tool supported on pipe or a wireline. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2212438-A (GB)
Title: Biaxially oriented polypropylene film
Inventor: SYME BLAIR GRIEVE WILSON
IPC: B29L7/00
Filed: 1988-11-14
Abstract: The film contains from 1 to 40 percent by weight of a hydrocarbon resin, the resin being substantially miscible with the polypropylene, and the film having a crease retention of at least 50% as measured by ASTM D920-49. The hydrocarbon resin is preferably a terpene resin, a hydrogenated synthetic resin or a compatible rosin. Crease retention values in excess of 70% have been achieved in particular by orienting the film in the transverse direction at a temperature of at least 10 Centigrade degrees below the crystalline melting point of the polypropylene.
Patent GB-2215776-A (GB)
Title: I.C. engine intake fuel injection system
Inventor: JOHNSON GEOFFREY JEAN JULES
IPC: F02M69/14
Filed: 1989-02-01
Abstract: Manifold injectors 11 with fuel pressure opened valves (29, Fig 2) have their regulated fuel pressure supply controlled by respective pairs of solenoid valves 15 at their inlets or their supply pressure is reduced to below the valve opening pressure by a pair of solenoid valves (24, fig 4). The solenoid valves may be remotely located from the injectors. <IMAGE>