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Patent GB-2073410-A (GB)
Title: Recovering particulate materials from mixtures containing them
IPC: B03B13/00
Filed: 1981-02-23
Abstract: Diamonds are recovered from a concentrate by means of X-ray separation after the concentrate had been formed into a layer on a spreader plate 12 flooded with water. The plate is preferably flooded from a flood box 23 with a wide thin nozzle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2098234-A (GB)
Title: Formation of wells for the in- situ conversion of underground minerals
IPC: E21B43/248
Filed: 1981-05-08
Abstract: A portion (20) of an input well (1) for use in the in-situ conversion of coal by reverse combustion is formed by directing at least one directionally charged explosive device in a direction transverse to the general direction of the desired linkage path system (15) extending between said input well (1) and an output well (2). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2077167-A (GB)
Title: Welding mask
IPC: A61F9/06
Filed: 1981-05-12
Abstract: The present invention relates to a welding mask having a dark coloured glass or plastics material vizor for covering a viewing aperture of the mask and a solenoid 4 which, when activated, serves to clear the line of vision through the aperture; the solenoid being arranged such that, on cessation or in the absence of current therein, the said aperture is covered by the dark coloured vizor. The welding mask provides increased protection to the eyes of the wearer, in particular from intense arc light, the arrangement being such that the line of vision through the viewing aperture is only cleared when no current is flowing to the arc electrode, and the dark coloured vizor covers the viewing aperture before the striking of the arc. The vizor itself may be intrinsically dark-coloured and removable from the line of vision or may be created in the line of vision, e.g., and as shown, by the relative rotation of two polarized filter plates 24, 26. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2109507-A (GB)
Title: A tap
Inventor: HIPKIN TREVOR GORDON
IPC: E03C1/08
Filed: 1981-11-13
Abstract: A tap 1 comprises a spout 3 provided with an outlet socket 5 which is internally screw-threaded adjacent its outlet end, and a liquid flow modifier 6 having a screw- threaded external surface for screw- threaded engagement with the outlet socket 5 to enable the liquid flow modifier to be detachably connected to the outlet socket to modify liquid flow therethrough during normal use of the tap. To enable a hose to be connected to such a tap, a hose connecting means 11 is detachably connectible to the outlet socket 5 when the liquid flow modifier 6 is disconnected therefrom. The hose connecting means 11 comprises a tubular spigot member 19, and externally screw-threaded collars 11, 20 designed to make screw-threaded engagement with the outlet socket 5 and one another to retain the spigot member in its operative position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2088432-A (GB)
Title: Casting prestressed concrete beams or slabs
IPC: B28B7/42
Filed: 1981-11-13
Abstract: A casting pallet (1) includes prestressing strand anchors (5) spaced one from each pallet end by pivots (6), located at or adjusting the axial centroid of the pallet and below the locations at which the strands (9) are attached to the anchors. The forces exerted by the strands upon the anchors are balanced by tie bars (11), extending between and attached to the anchors. The pallet is cooled during curing by circulating water through ducts located in the pallet. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2113996-A (GB)
Title: Hang-over treatment
Inventor: BLITZ ALEXANDER SOLOMON
IPC: A61K9/00
Filed: 1982-02-02
Abstract: An alleviating composition for use as a hangover cure comprising an aldehyde or ketone or mixture thereof as a first ingredient distributed in an aqueous vehicle or diluent containing a volatile second ingredient e.g. ethyl alcohol, the aldehyde or ketone being of such type and in such an amount and in such form as to be inhalable at ambient temperature or after warming to temperatures up to those of body heat. The aldehyde or ketone may be formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, metaaldehyde, paraaldehyde, propionaldehyde, n-butyraldehyde, n- valeraldehyde, acrolein, acetone and methyl ethyl ketone.
Patent GB-2093810-A (GB)
Title: Label cutting and collecting apparatus
IPC: B26D5/32
Filed: 1982-03-02
Abstract: Apparatus for cutting and collecting sheets comprises means for feeding a continuous web (W) to a rotary cutter (C) operable to make repeated cuts across said web to separate successive lengths thereof as discrete sheets, and a delivery unit (D) for receiving said sheets and collecting them in a stack (55, 56) in which separate electric motors (M1; M2; M3; M4) are provided for driving at least one web feed device (F2), the cutter (C), and the delivery unit (D), with electronic control means (93) arranged to control the speeds of said motors in response to a common speed control signal and means (95) for sensing marks on said web, said sensing means being connected to said electronic control means to influence the speed control of at least one of said motors to control the speed of the cutter relative to the web speed so that the cuts across said web are made at predetermined positions relative to said marks. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2117388-A (GB)
Title: Moulding compounds
Inventor: LYALL ROBERT
IPC: C08K3/08
Filed: 1982-03-19
Abstract: Plastics moulding compounds are reinforced by metal in the form of ribbons, tapes and/or fibres. Sheet moulding compounds, dough moulding compounds and thermoplastic moulding compounds may be so reinforced. Additional reinforcement (e.g. glass, carbon, synthetic or natural fibres) may be used. Reinforcement in the form of amorphous metal glass ribbon is of especial interest. Such moulding compounds may exhibit enhanced flow and mechanical properties, and may be particularly applicable to the manufacture of plastics articles in moulds.
Patent GB-2099371-A (GB)
Title: Finisher and lithographic printing plates
IPC: B41N3/08
Filed: 1982-05-26
Abstract: A lithographic plate that has been exposed and developed is, before being heated to form a fused image, treated with an aqueous solution of a monoalkyl or dialkyl diphenylethersulphonic acid, wherein the or each alkyl group is a linear alkyl group of 14 to 18 carbon atoms.
Patent GB-2107953-A (GB)
Title: Supplying plural kinds of information over a television channel
Inventor: PARGEE ROBERT W
IPC: H04N7/00
Filed: 1982-06-24
Abstract: Plural kinds of television information are available to a user for display on a video display (44) from a central library of information stored in a video cassette recorder/reproducer (41) i.e., still frame pictures (3) of diverse subjects, initially compressed and subsequently decompressed, audio (2) that may accompany such pictures, and alpha-numeric text (1), with or without sound or pictures, as well as the usual television service. The desired kind and item of information is selected by the user from index presentations and the subsequent manipulation of a control in the form of a hand held keyboard (200) which is functionally connected to a local controller (43') by multiple wire cable (201). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2122803-A (GB)
Title: Treatment of contaminated waste plastics material
Inventor: SIMS JOHN
IPC: G21F9/30
Filed: 1982-06-24
Abstract: Radioactive contaminated plastics material is treated by reducing it to uniform-sized debris and extruding it from a heated extruder into a sealed container in monolithic block form or as an in-fill matrix for other contaminated waste articles to create a substantially void-free sealed mass for disposal. Density adjusting fillers may be included. Extrusion may alternatively take place into a clean sealable plastics tube.
Patent GB-2107047-A (GB)
Title: Measuring ink concentrations in printed matter
Inventor: SAITO JOICHI
IPC: B41F33/00
Filed: 1982-09-10
Abstract: A method and apparatus for measuring ink concentrations in printed matter is described. The apparatus comprises: scanning means (105) for measuring the colour density of check points on a standard printed sheet (110) through a coloured filter or through a plurality of separate differently coloured filters and for measuring the colour density of points on a test printed sheet (106) corresponding to the check points on the standard sheet through the same coloured filter or filters; means for determining from the colour density measurements the concentration of the or each ink printed on the standard sheet (110) at each check point and the concentration of the or each ink printed on the test sheet (106) at each point corresponding to a standard sheet check point; and means for determining, for each check point and for the or each colour of ink, deviation coefficients representing the difference in ink concentration between the sample and test sheets. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2113709-A (GB)
Title: Bis(p-alkylphenylethynyl) anthracenes
Inventor: ARTHEN FRANK JOSEPH
IPC: C09K11/07
Filed: 1982-10-22
Abstract: Bis(p-alkylphenylethynyl)anthracenes are described for use as fluorescer components in chemiluminescent reaction mixtures and in precursor solutions or solid mixtures. Chemiluminescent mixtures comprising these fluorescers are shown to generate higher light capacity and higher quantum yields than those made with similar prior art fluorescers.
Patent GB-2121365-A (GB)
Title: Console box arrangement of automative vehicle
Inventor: MIYABAYASHI YOSHIYUKI
IPC: B60R7/04
Filed: 1982-10-26
Abstract: A console box arrangement in an automotive vehicle having a vehicle body including a roof panel (6) and a roof trim (8) underlying the roof panel (6) and having a front end portion (8a) spaced apart downwardly from the roof panel (6) and forming a free space (10) between the roof panel (6) and the roof trim (8) and a ledge portion (8b) upwardly and rearwardly merging out of the front end portion (8a) and formed with an opening (12) which is open rearwardly of the vehicle body, comprising a hollow console box (13) provided in the free space (10) between the roof panel (6) and roof trim (8) and secured to the roof panel (6), the console box (13) having at its rear end an opening (17) which is open rearwardly through the opening (12) in the roof trim (8), and a lid member (19) having an end portion (19a) securely attached to the roof trim (8) and a lid portion (19b) hingedly connected to the end portion (19a) for being angularly movable about the boundary line between the end portion (19a) and the lid portion (19b) of the lid member (19) between an angular position closing the opening (12) in the roof trim (8) and an angular position allowing the opening (12) in the roof trim (8) to be open rearwardly. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2113652-A (GB)
Title: Coil bobbin with terminal mounting arrangement
Inventor: SCUDDER WILLIAM H
IPC: H01F5/04
Filed: 1983-01-05
Abstract: A coil bobbin is provided with an arrangement for mounting one or more L shaped terminals on the head flange of the bobbin about which the coil is wound. A housing recess 40 extends into the side of the bobbin head flange 22 to divide it into upper and lower flange lips 23, 25. A radial slot 29 through the upper lip receives and rotatably supports the leg portion 16 of an L-shaped terminal. The foot 17 of the terminal extends radially outwardly beyond the head flange for connection with an end of the coil winding. The terminal is then rotated about the axis of its leg portion to bring its entire foot into protected housing within the head flange recess. A ridge 50 in the head flange latches the terminal in the housed position. In an alternate embodiment, the terminal leg may be retained and supported within a enclosed circular opening disconnected from the periphery of the flange. A radial slot in the lower lip of the head flange permits longitudinal insertion of the terminal leg into its mounting opening. In both embodiments the lead wire 18A, 18B, extends through a lead slot 60A in the lower lip. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2140291-A (GB)
Title: Tables and the like
Inventor: DUNN JOHN
IPC: A47B9/12
Filed: 1983-05-24
Abstract: A height adjustable working table (10) comprises a support structure (11), a work surface structure (12), and means for adjusting the height of the latter relative to the former. A handle (26), on a shaft (25) to which a flexible band (not shown in Fig. 4) is connected, can be turned to cause the band to rotate a roll bar (23) extending along the table (10). Other flexible bands (19) passing around roll bar (23) and having their ends connected to the work surface structure (12) are thereby moved to raise or lower the work surface structure (12). A sash balance (17) is provided at each end of the working table (10) to compensate for the weight of the work surface structure (12). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2127152-A (GB)
Title: Control unit for remotely adjustable vehicle headlights
Inventor: DICK HEINZ
IPC: B60Q1/06
Filed: 1983-06-30
Abstract: In a control unit for remotely adjustable headlights, in which a slidable or rotatable handle may be moved into a plurality of different settings, each corresponding to a correct adjustment of the headlights for a given vehicle loading condition, the different settings of the handle (2) - are marked by symbols (13) which may be arranged in precalibrated positions adjacent a graduated panel (3) after the manufacture of the control unit is otherwise complete. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2123834-A (GB)
Title: Substituted peptide compounds
Inventor: NATARAJAN SESHA I
IPC: C07D211/60
Filed: 1983-07-08
Abstract: Substituted peptide compounds of the formula   <IMAGE> are disclosed. These compounds are useful as hypotensive agents due to their angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition activity and depending upon the definition of X may also be useful as analgesics due to their enkephalinase inhibition activity.
Patent GB-2125101-A (GB)
Title: A door locking unit for a floor safe
Inventor: HAMBER HENRY HUGH
IPC: E05B65/00
Filed: 1983-08-01
Abstract: A door locking unit for closing the access to a floor safe and having one or more locking elements (8) which are eccentrically mounted and pivotally connected to a linkage (10) actuable by an ordinary key lock (4) to move in a rectilinear path to thereby rotate both locking elements between unlocked and locked positions in the access. In the locked position the elements (8) project from the unit beneath a flange or flanges (or similar receiving areas) formed in the safe access to effect the required closure. In another embodiment the elements are of square section. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2146596-A (GB)
Title: Manually driven skateboards
Inventor: KUN KAN TSAI
IPC: A63C17/12
Filed: 1983-09-15
Abstract: A skateboard includes a platform, and front and rear wheel axles transversely disposed underneath the platform bearing two pairs of wheels separately rotatably mounted. A drive wheel which is driven by reciprocation of a cable 39 is rotatably mounted on the rear axle 61 coaxially with a driven rear wheel 31; between one side wall of the drive wheel 37 and a hub 34 of the wheel 31 there is interposed a one-way clutch comprising a circular ratchet 36 and a hub sleeve 35. Within a space defined between the ratchet 36 and the hub sleeve 35 there are a plurality of ball bearings 38. By means of the different locations of each ball responsive to different directions of rotation of the drive wheel, only one direction of rotation of the drive wheel will effect driving of the driven wheel. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2129154-A (GB)
Title: Display units
Inventor: ELLIS STAFFORD MALCOLM
IPC: G02B27/00
Filed: 1983-10-07
Abstract: A display unit for a head-up display system which includes a periscopic arrangement (11a, b) between a combiner (3) and an observer's head position (0). The arrangement is effective to transmit light from a lateral portion of a display which has been reflected by the combiner (3) which otherwise would not be received by the observer without lateral head movement. The periscopic arrangement may be moved to a position out of the line of sight of the observer when it is not needed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2132786-A (GB)
Title: Aligning optical fibres using infra red radiation
Inventor: SMITH GEORGE ROWLAND
IPC: G02B6/255
Filed: 1983-10-21
Abstract: Optical fibres A and B are automatically aligned in preparation for welding. The alignment is achieved by using infra red radiation 24 which passes from the cladding of one fibre and into the cladding of the other. The infrared to be applied at right angles to the end of one fibre and detected at right angles at the end of the other at 25. Adjustment of the alignment to maximise the radiation transmitted via the cladding aligns the cores. The use of infra red reduces the effect of ambient radiation and the use of pulsed infrared improves the selectivity by recognising the pulsation pattern at the detector.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2135434-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for the discharge of liquid slag and gas
Inventor: SCHINGNITZ MANFRED
IPC: F27D3/15
Filed: 1984-01-03
Abstract: The apparatus comprises a casing (1) having an upper portion housing a downwardly convergent supply nozzle (5) for liquid slag and gas, therebelow a central portion housing a double-walled tube (7) for cooling the slag and gas from nozzle (5), tube (7) constituting a water jacket and being provided with means (9) for distributing water over the innermost surface of the tube (7), and a bottom portion having an outlet (3) for granulated slag and an overflow outlet (2) for water. The inner wall of the tube (7) is a Venturi tube (6) comprising a downwardly tapering section followed by a cylindrical section followed by a downwardly widening section. A lower part of the nozzle (5) is disposed within the downwardly tapering section of the Venturi tube (6) and the bore diameter d of the cylindrical section of the tube (6) satisfies the relationship: 0.8t </= d </= 1.2 t wherein t = the smallest internal diameter of the nozzle 5. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2133890-A (GB)
Title: Displacement transducer
Inventor: HEPPENSTALL KEITH
IPC: G01D5/241
Filed: 1984-01-10
Abstract: A displacement transducer comprises a first and a second series of conductive elements formed on a pair of relatively movable members 11, 13, the elements being spaced apart in the direction of relative movement of the members. A third and fourth series of conductive elements are formed on a further pair of members 14, 12 relatively movable in synchronism with the members 11, 13. The number of elements in the first and second series is different to the number of elements in the third and fourth series whereby the variation of capacitance between the third and fourth series of elements will move into and out of phase with the variation of the capacitance between the first and second series of elements, means being provided to determine the phase difference. In Fig. 1 discs 13 and 14 are mounted on a shaft and discs 11 and 12 are fixed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2154225-A (GB)
Title: Fertilizer from powdered calcified seaweed
Inventor: KINAHAN EDWARD ANTHONY FRANCIS
IPC: C05F11/00
Filed: 1984-02-14
Abstract: A particulate plant food composition comprises powdered calcified seaweed and a sufficient amount of a non-phytotoxic gum to agglomerate it into particulate form. The gum is preferably seaweed gel extract. The composition can be made by grinding calcified seaweed and then pelleting or granulating it using a non-phytotoxic gum as agglomerating agent. It is applied to the soil in conventional manner as a plant food.
Patent GB-2159192-A (GB)
Title: A trenching method and apparatus
Inventor: JONES ARTHUR
IPC: E02F5/12
Filed: 1984-05-24
Abstract: A trench, particularly a drainage trench for grassed sports fields and the like, is formed by a two stage method in which the upper half of the trench is excavated by removing soil with a rotary cutting tool 4, and the lower half of the trench is ploughed to its finished depth without removing soil. Immediately behind the plough there is a delivery chute 17 extending the full depth and width of the trench and has an inclined exit aperture,which delivers material to fill the trench from above-ground hoppers. The chute may be partitioned to form separate upper and lower exit apertures connected with separate hoppers to deliver, for example, gravel to the lower part of the trench and sand above it. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2163438-A (GB)
Title: Injectable sealant compositions
Inventor: ATKINSON ALAN WILLIAM
IPC: C09K3/10
Filed: 1984-08-24
Abstract: An injectable sealant composition comprising graphite powder dispersed in an oil vehicle contains none of the asbestos fibre conventionally employed but instead incorporates (a) synthetic fibres (eg vitreous fibres such as E-glass) which at a temperature of 250 DEG C neither melt nor decompose and (b) a finely divided mineral silicate, preferably a clay, or mineral sulphate, for example barytes. The composition can be cast or extruded into sticks and injected by conventional means to stop leaks in valves, flange-joint gaskets and the like forming part of plant operating at high pressures and elevated temperatures.
Patent GB-2157789-A (GB)
Title: Self-adjusting clutch control mechanism
Inventor: ROBINSON MICHAEL
IPC: F16C1/22
Filed: 1985-01-17
Abstract: An engine clutch control mechanism incorporating a Bowden-type flexible control cable having a self-adjustment device in the form of a clamp (4) incorporating an axially displaceable clamp component (6) which is connected to the core (1) of the Bowden cable by a friction coupling. The clamp component (6) moves axially with the core during a first part of each operative, clutch- disengaging stroke thereof and becomes wedged into engagement with a surrounded end portion of the conduit (2) of the Bowden cable. The clamp component releases such conduit end portion when the core is nearing the end of each return, clutch-engaging stroke so that such conduit end portion can move axially relative to the clamp component under any residual force imposed on the cable by the clutch return spring. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2153942-A (GB)
Title: Closure assembly for pressure fluid storage vessel
Inventor: BROADHEAD MICHAEL
IPC: F17C13/06
Filed: 1985-01-18
Abstract: A closure assembly for a fluid storage vessel, the assembly includes a check valve (24) to facilitate pressure fluid dispensing and re-filling, and a bursting disc (48) located in an opening (46) in the side of a main body or housing part of the assembly. So that the pressure acting against the bursting disc (48) can never be greater than that within the pressure vessel, a bleed passage (54) leading to the bursting disc (48) communicates therewith from the inner end of the main body or housing part. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2155796-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for playing a game
Inventor: LAMOND PAUL MALCOLM
IPC: G06F19/00
Filed: 1985-03-19
Abstract: The apparatus for playing a game, for example one based on soccer, comprises board game apparatus 1, in combination with a computer 3 and a display 2. The board game apparatus comprises playing pieces, representing football teams, a plurality of cards, dice and a board marked with stadia and interconnecting paths. Results of matches (determined by the throw of dice and cards held by the players) are entered on the computer which computes a league table, the next matches to be played in the league and the gate income to be attributed to a team in dependence upon its position in the league. Chance and hazard conditions, such as the weather, which contribute to the outcome of the matches are displayed by the computer. The program for the game is carried on a cassette 6 as a plurality of recordings, each compatible with a respective operating software configuration. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2162372-A (GB)
Title: Electric strip switch
Inventor: PEACHEY C J
IPC: H01H3/14
Filed: 1985-06-04
Abstract: An electric strip switch for safety applications, comprising an elongate actuator bar 1 of rigid material which is movable in an elongate housing 2 and protrudes through a slot of the housing under pressure from springs 4. A pair of electric switch elements 6 are positioned within the housing one at each end of the bar 1 and have actuators 7 arranged to engage a ramp or other surface 8 on the bar 1 as it is pushed into the housing to thereby operate at least one of the switch elements. <IMAGE>