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Patent GB-2275913-A (GB)
Title: A box having a handle
Inventor: ELLIS ROY
IPC: B65D5/54
Filed: 1993-03-11
Abstract: A box made from a folded blank of stiff material comprises comprising a body portion in the form of a tube of polygonal cross-section, and a pair of end walls disposed at opposite ends of the body portion. Each end wall comprises a plurality of end closure panels (22, 20) hinged to the body portion. The body portion comprises a carrying handle formed from the material of the blank. The carrying handle is made up of two handle portions (24, 28) provided, respectively, on inner and outer wall panels (14, 12). A removable region (32) may be defined by perforated lines (36) for access to the contents of the box. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2265706-A (GB)
Title: Insulated containers
Inventor: DAVIS VICTOR GEORGE
IPC: B65D81/38
Filed: 1993-03-15
Abstract: An insulated container (1) having a foamed core and an impervious skin (10) and comprising a base (2) and an upstanding peripheral sidewall (3, 4), the upper edge (7e, 7c, 8) of the sidewall (3, 4) and the underside (9) of the periphery of the base having complementary engaging formations (9, 7c, 7e, 8). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2267156-A (GB)
Title: Detecting tampering in commodity supply meters
Inventor: GRAHAM IAN
IPC: G07F15/00
Filed: 1993-05-18
Abstract: In a pre-payment type electricity meter with means to detect tampering, a watchdog circuit 2 monitors the operation of a microprocessor 4 which records the supply of electricity to the consumer and should the tampering produce "crashing" in the microprocessor, the watchdog circuit co-operates with other circuitry (6-20) to open a switch 22 to cut the power supply to the consumer. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2278083-A (GB)
Title: Fire resistant cladding.
Inventor: WARD DEREK ALFRED
IPC: B32B7/027
Filed: 1993-05-22
Abstract: A cladding board 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 for cladding structural steel members, comprises a layer of thermally insulating fire resistant board material 10 sandwiched between two layers 11, 12 of intumescent material. A structural steel member fitted with a fire-resistant covering, comprises an intumescent adhesive layer 12 bonding the covering material to the steel, a fire-resistant thermally insulating material 10 bonded on one side thereof to the intumescent adhesive material, the thermally insulating material having bonded to an outer surface thereof a layer of intumescent material 11. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2271529-A (GB)
Title: Colour printed glass slabs for walls and floors
Inventor: SHIHUA CHEN
IPC: E04F13/14
Filed: 1993-10-14
Abstract: Colour printed glass slabs for walls and floors are made by printing on a glass plate (1) a coloured image (2), preparing a light, moulded foam slab of magnesia (4), adhering the glass (1) to the foam slab (4) using an adhesive (3) and chamfering the resultant product. The process employs offset printing technology which can print a photographic pattern on the glass plate with 95% fine and dense dots, reproducing colour landscape scenes. The process does not involve high temperature sintering in a kiln, so the product is free from cracks. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2272497-A (GB)
Title: A nut segment for an anti-backlash nut
Inventor: MORALES VICTOR H
IPC: F16H25/20
Filed: 1993-12-13
Abstract: A nut segment 2 for an anti-backlash nut 1, said nut segment having an internal threaded bore 6 adapted to receive a threaded member 9 therein, said nut segment having at least one adjustment slot 13, 14 therein. In use the adjustment slot 13, 14 is engaged by a lock stop 22 provided at the end of a respective locking finger 21 associated with a further nut segment 3. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2272327-A (GB)
Title: Plant monitor system
Inventor: SCAROLA KENNETH
IPC: G08B25/14
Filed: 1990-10-31
Abstract: An alarm system in a nuclear power plant control room having means for computing a representative condition signal for a plant parameter and a display interface 78 having a first screen area for displaying an activated alarm tile image when the representative signal exceeds a threshold and a second screen area for displaying an alarm-related message pertaining to the activated tile. The priority of a spatially fixed, activated alarm tile on an alarm tile array is indicated by a shape coding at the tile, and preferably the same shape coding is used wherever the same alarm condition is indicated elsewhere in the control room. The status of an alarm tile can change automatically or by operator acknowledgement but tones and/or flashing cues continue to provide status information to the operator. The alarm activation set point and priority for a given, spatially fixed alarm tile can vary depending in part on the mode of plant operation. Alarm acknowledgement can be made not only at the alarm tile array of a given console but via other touch sensitive alarm indications in the screen displays of the monitoring system at the same or other consoles. Touching one tile can acknowledge multiple alarm sources. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2275457-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for wrapping by means of sheet materials
Inventor: SMITH PETER JAMES
IPC: B29C65/48
Filed: 1994-01-25
Abstract: A wrapping sheet material (2b) comprises superincumbent layers of heat-activatable adhesive (3b), field responsive matter (20), and a cover film (10b). The film (10b) comprises 30 micron thick PVDC. The field responsive layer (20) comprises electrically conductive matter in the form of vacuum deposited aluminium of about 5 Angstrom unit thickness. The heat-activatable adhesive layer (3b) comprises a hot seal glue of about 15 Angstrom unit thickness. The term "field responsive matter" applies to matter which, when subjected to a suitable field of radio-frequency, electromagnetic or microwave radiation, will become heated to a sufficient level to cause the adhesive (3b) to melt and then set or cure. The sheet (3b) is used in the apparatus (1b), wherein heat-activation takes place by the use of radio-frequency high voltage heating means (25, 26). The sheet (2b) is folded and then passed through a roller nip (6). The means (25, 26) cause induction heating of the contiguous edges of the field responsive layer (20), due to the presence of a radio-frequency field (29). The heated layer (20) transmits heat to activate the glue layer (3b) whereby, when pressure is applied by co-operating rollers (4, 5) the longitudinal edges of the sheet (2b) are joined together to provide a good, substantially tamper-proof seal. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2288848-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle anti-theft circuit
Inventor: HSIANG SHENG-HSIANG
IPC: B60R25/04
Filed: 1994-04-22
Abstract: Diodes D1, D2 or bridge diodes (Fig. 4) are connected to terminals of relays RL controlling starter motor, ignition coil, fuel pump and the ignition and fuel control system circuits. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2277994-A (GB)
Title: Transducer support device
Inventor: KNEPPER JUNIOR WILLIAM H
IPC: G01N27/90
Filed: 1994-05-10
Abstract: A transducer support device 12 in the form of a ring comprises a plurality of mountings 19 for transducers arranged around the inner periphery of the device. Transducer shoes 26 are disposed on the mountings via ring-shaped flexible elements 18 allowing the transducers to move relative to the support device and maintain contact with objects under test which pass through the device. The transducer shoes, flexible elements and mountings are connected together by means of respective dovetail joints 20, 22. Application to the testing of tubing using magnetic flux leakage sensors is disclosed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284336-A (GB)
Title: Fishing weight
Inventor: FELLOWES ROBERT
IPC: A01K95/00
Filed: 1994-12-02
Abstract: An adjustable fishing weight 10 has a rod like weight support means 12 connected to a fishing line by line attachment means 16 with removable weights (38) (Fig. 13) mounted on the support means 12 which may be added or removed from the support means when attached to the fishing line. The weights 38 have central apertures through which the support means 12 is received and these weight units are secured on the support means 12 and restrained from longitudinal displacement by restraining means in the form of a base plate 14 and a cap member (44) (Fig. 10) adjustable along and engageable with the support means 12. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2285114-A (GB)
Title: Torque converter
Inventor: DEHRMANN UWE
IPC: F16H41/30
Filed: 1994-12-21
Abstract: A torque converter comprises a rotatable housing (13) including a pump wheel (6), a rotatable turbine wheel (7) connected to an output shaft (26) and a guide wheel (8) which together form a converter circuit filled with hydraulic fluid to transmit rotation of the pump wheel (6) to the turbine wheel (7), and a bypass clutch (16) including a piston (18) with a friction lining (60) adapted to connect the housing (13) directly to the turbine wheel (7). An hydraulic chamber (38) is defined in the housing for actuating the piston (18), and is connected to the converter circuit and through at least one radial flow guide (70) to a through bore (25) of the output shaft (26). Fluid flowing through the flow guide (70) radially inwardly is discharged into the through bore in a zone surrounding the converter axis, the zone being substantially turbulence free. Numerous embodiments seek to improve the cooling fluid flow adjacent the friction surface of the bypass clutch. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2289211-A (GB)
Title: Mop sheet and holder
Inventor: YAMASHITA SHUSUKE
IPC: A47L13/24
Filed: 1995-03-21
Abstract: A mop of the type having a cylindrical mop sheet holder member 2 made of a resiliently flexible material and attached to a handle I comprises sheet retainer arm(s) 22, 23 pivotally movable into engagement from above with an axially extending groove 12 formed on the top side of the sheet holder member 2 in order to anchor opposite ends of a mop sheet 3. There may be a single pivotal retainer arm integrally formed as part of a sideways-extending handle (Fig 10). The mop sheet may be pleated (Fig. 14). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2300099-A (GB)
Title: Plant holder for greening wall surfaces
Inventor: FUKUZUMI YUTAKA
IPC: A01G9/02
Filed: 1995-04-26
Abstract: A plant container for greening an upright or slanting wall surface comprises a flexible bag 1 including compartments 2 sequentially juxtaposed in the direction of the overall length of the bag. The compartments are each provided with openings 3 communicating with the exterior through which the plants grow. The bag 1 is suspended by hanger 16 so that it extends over the wall surface. Soil may be loaded through the openings 3 into the compartments 2 while the bag 1 is in a reclining position and plants positioned through the openings 3 before the bag is placed in a suspended position. The bag may include a watering arrangement comprising a series of pipes between the compartments.
Patent GB-2289130-A (GB)
Title: Shielding room for an NMR spectroscopy magnet
Inventor: MUELLER WOLFGANG
IPC: G01R33/421
Filed: 1995-04-27
Abstract: The stray field from a vertically oriented cryogenic NMR magnet 1 is enclosed by upper 3 and lower 4 ferromagnetic plates near or on the ceiling and floor of the room. The cryostat 1 stands on a vibrationally damped support plate 8 lying in an opening 6 in the lower shielding plate 4. The opening 6 improves the magnetic field homogeneity within the NMR measuring volume (figure 5b) at the cost of a slight reduction in shielding performance (figure 4c). The opening 6 also greatly reduces the electromagnetic force on the shield. The separation of the upper plate 3 from the measuring volume V (figure 3) is 1.5 to 3 times the separation of the lower plate 4 from the measuring volume. The mass of the upper plate 3, which may have a canopy 7, is approximately twice the mass of the lower plate 4. The plates are connected by ferromagnetic posts 5 at each corner. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2313456-A (GB)
Title: Heterogeneous operations with differing transaction protocols
Inventor: FREUND THOMAS
IPC: G06F9/46
Filed: 1996-05-24
Abstract: Resource Manager (130) acts as both a Transaction Manager and a Resource Manager within a system which also contains a standards-based Transaction Manager (120) which has overall transaction management responsibility. The Transaction Manager within the Resource Manager (130) acts as an interface to provide specific mappings between the Transaction Manager (120) which has overall transaction management responsibility and a proprietary transaction processing system (250) which it manages. The interface is required to map different transaction identification specifications, record appropriate state information and have procedures to effect failure and restart scenarios.
Patent GB-2304430-A (GB)
Title: Managing exceptions
Inventor: PASCOE CHRISTOPHER JAMES
IPC: G06F9/44
Filed: 1996-08-15
Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing exceptions occurring during an execution of a plurality of objects in an object oriented environment. Under the present invention a message from an object is received in which the message requires processing by the plurality of objects. Error information is stored in a data structure in response to each occurrence of an error in each of the plurality of objects. This data structure is returned to the calling object.
Patent GB-2306475-A (GB)
Title: Antifungal agent
Inventor: BASILIO ANGELA
IPC: A01N63/30
Filed: 1996-10-22
Abstract: The novel compound having the formula  exhibits antifungal activity. It is obtained by aerobically cultivating a culture of Chaetosphaeronema , MF 6188 (ATCC 74354) in a nutrient medium containing assimilable sources of carbon and nitrogen.
Patent GB-964782-A (GB)
Abstract: 964,782. Feeding webs. MAREMONT CORPORATION. July 13, 1960 [July 20, 1959], No. 7541/64. Divided out of 964,781. Heading B6B. [Also in Divisions D1 and F2] In a pair of rollers between which material passes, at least one of the rollers is magnetic and comprises an annular shell of ferromagnetic material in which at least one permanent magnet having a ferromagnetic polepiece at each end is placed. In the textile mechanism shown in which a rope-like sliver is drafted the front and back pairs of rollers 38, 52 and 50, 40 together with the apron rollers 42, 60 of the intermediate apron unit are magnetically loaded. The bottom apron roller 42, which runs the length of the machine, comprises a shell 92 of ferromagnetic material (e.g. steel) in which are positioned permanent magnets 94 having polepieces 96 of soft iron or steel at either end, non-magnetic spacers 95 also being provided. Each polepiece 96 is placed directly beneath a boss 18 of the magnetically attractable top rollers 60 which in the form shown also contain permanent magnets 94.
Patent GB-2310069-A (GB)
Title: Banking system
Inventor: WATANABE MITSUHIRO
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 1997-02-07
Abstract: A banking system comprises radio communication means to be connected to a center terminal (5) of a financial organization (4) by way of a radio communication network for drawing an amount from and depositing an amount to a bank account in the financial organization (4), the bank account being identified by a bank password. The radio communication means includes a radio linked portable terminal (1) and an IC card (2) to be connected to the radio linked portable terminal, the IC card comprising a memory for storing information of an available amount reserved for the IC card (2) and a processor for adding an amount drawn from the bank account to the available amount and subtracting an amount to be deposited to the bank account from the available amount. The transaction data may be encrypted making use of a public key.
Patent GB-2322346-A (GB)
Title: Spray suppression device
Inventor: KILPINEN SEPPO
IPC: B62D25/18
Filed: 1997-02-21
Abstract: A spray suppression device (10) for suppressing spray flung outward from the wheel of a vehicle. The device comprises a panel (12) with a plurality of spaced apart spray suppression elements (16) extending across the panel surface (14). Each spray suppression element has an elongated body with an elongated front side (22) facing the spray (20). The spray suppression elements (16) are connected by their base ends (18) to the panel (12) in an upwardly extending inclined position to protrude axially out from the panel surface (14). The axial extensions of the elements (16) form in a vertical cross section an acute angle α with the plane (14) of the panel. The angle α is preferably about 52,5‹. The combined projections of the spray suppression elements (16), in a plane perpendicular to the flow direction (20) of the spray, cover the front surface of the panel, so as to prevent spray from directly impinging the panel surface.
Patent GB-2311202-A (GB)
Title: Trough for bathing animals' feet
Inventor: WEBBER RICHARD SYDNEY
IPC: A01K13/00
Filed: 1997-03-19
Abstract: The vessel 2 is an elongate trough with low end walls 10,12 and higher, upwardly diverging, side walls (6,8). The end walls 10,12 may have formations 18,20 such that two or more troughs can be linked together. In use, an animal steps through the gap 5 or 7 at one end of the trough into treatment liquid 25 therein and is then constrained to walk through it until exiting the other end.
Patent GB-2326209-A (GB)
Title: Fluid propelled pipeline pig with controlled fluid by-pass
Inventor: SMITH IAN
IPC: B08B9/057
Filed: 1997-06-12
Abstract: The pig (10) comprises a body (14), at least one flexible annular outwardly extending seal (16,18) sealingly contracting a pipeline interior wall under differential fluid pressure whereby to propel the pig along the pipeline (12), fluid bypass duct means (20) through the body and resilient frictional means (22,23) on and extending from the body adapted to contact the pipeline interior wall and exert a drag on the pig. An adjustable bypass flow control sleeve valve (24) is provided to regulate fluid flow through the duct means and thus the speed of the pig, the valve being operated by a microprocessor controlled hydraulic actuator 30 extending to open, or close outlet vents 28.
Patent GB-2328016-A (GB)
Title: Tablet holder for spectrometry analysis
Inventor: HAMMOND STEPHEN VICTOR
IPC: G01N21/35
Filed: 1997-08-08
Abstract: Tablet holder (1) for use in analysis by spectrometry e.g. in the near infrared, has a body (2) with a recess (5) for holding the specimen tablet (20). The recess has a bottom face (6) with an aperture (7) through which radiation transmitted through the tablet (20) is received by a detector (32) for analysis of the tablet. A clamping means e.g. a slidable rod (8) biassed by a spring (10) applies a clamping force to the tablet to displace the tablet relative to the recess to a predetermined position therein and to secure the tablet in the recess.
Patent GB-2328923-A (GB)
Title: Liquid handling apparatus
Inventor: PUMMELL LESLIE JAMES HORACE
IPC: G03C1/015
Filed: 1997-09-02
Abstract: Apparatus for handling a liquid comprises a processing vessel 2 having an outer rigid container, eg of mild steel and an inner flexible liner, eg of polythene. The apparatus may be used in the precipitation of a gelatin emulsion in the preparation of photosensitive material. An initial solution is supplied to the vessel and recirculated several times in a system including a heat exchanger 14, additive stages 16,18, a test station 20 and a pump 22. The vessel 2 may be open, with an outlet conduit 4 and inlet conduit 24, or the liner may be secured to the inlet conduit to close the vessel (Figs 2 and 3). The inlet conduit may be apertured along its discharge end and may be provided with a baffle plate; a stirrer 10 may be provided.
Patent GB-2321109-A (GB)
Title: Portable press vibration severity monitoring system and method
Inventor: SCHOCH DANIEL A
IPC: B30B15/28
Filed: 1997-09-30
Abstract: The invention is directed to a hand held device (10) attachable to a mechanical press to measure press conditions. The device includes signal processing circuitry for processing a corresponding signal developed from an accelerometer (12, see Fig.1A) The signal processing circuitry has acceleration processing circuitry (32) for calculating a press acceleration signal, a velocity processing circuitry (62) for calculating a press velocity signal, and displacement processing circuitry (80) for calculating a press displacement signal (Figs.1A,1B). Display circuitry is used for displaying at least one of said calculated signals. A multi-contact switch (14, Fig.1B) the acceleration, velocity, and displacement processing circuitry together permitting an operator to select one of the calculated signals for input to the display circuitry. An add-on device such as a modem (190) could be used to transmit data to another location.
Patent GB-2321570-A (GB)
Title: Pre-synchronised ATM networks
Inventor: KIM DEOG-NYOUN
IPC: H04L12/70
Filed: 1997-10-27
Abstract: In a method of controlling jitter in an ATM (broadband ISDN) connection established through a network the nodes of which each include a frame counter; frame counters at each node are (at least initially) synchronised and activated using detected propagation delays and mismatches in time slot boundaries between adjacent nodes, delay bounds at each node and the frame size of the connection; and cells passing through each node are serviced based on the value of the corresponding frame counter. Once synchronised at the set up stage the counters may operate independently.
Patent GB-2318718-A (GB)
Title: An installation for flexibly supplying a plurality of cigarette machines with filter rods
Inventor: FURMANSKI HORST
IPC: A24C5/35
Filed: 1997-10-30
Abstract: In an installation for flexible supply of a plurality of cigarette machines with filter rods, a plurality of filter rod manufacturing machine and a plurality of filter feeding machines respectively connected thereto are provided. These fixedly associated filter feeding machines (18) send the filter rods through a plurality of feed tubes (20) to one or more of the cigarette machines (10). The fixedly associated filter feeding machines (18) are connected to an independent filter feeding machine (26) through at least one feed tube (20), which machine for its part feeds one or more of the cigarette machines (10) through a plurality of feed tubes (30).
Patent GB-2320051-A (GB)
Title: Actuating device for a locking system
Inventor: SPINDLER JOERG
IPC: E05B81/00
Filed: 1997-11-28
Abstract: An actuating device for a motor vehicle door lock comprises an actuating lever (1), an output element (4) moving the lever (1) and an input element (5) moved by a lock cylinder or the like, wherein the elements (4, 5) have the form of drivingly coupled cogwheels with gear rims (6, 7). A freewheel is provided, in that one of the cogwheels has a gap (8), so that the input element (5) can continue to rotate in idle motion on reaching this gap (8) without the output element (4) continuing to move. Advantageously, a transfer element (9), which also has the form of a cogwheel and which meshes with the input and output elements (4, 5), is provided with the gap (8) in its gear rim (10).
Patent GB-2332668-A (GB)
Title: A secure container for food with a one-way valve
Inventor: BLACKBURN KEITH
IPC: A47G29/24
Filed: 1997-12-24
Abstract: A container 10 for securing delivered food, (eg milk) has means 15 for securing it to a fixed surface, a one-way, inwardly opening valve 17, 18 in the upper face 13 or in an upright face of the container, and a lid 14 adapted to cover the valve. The container 10, valve 17, 18 and lid 14 may be formed as one integral unit, from polypropylene or another synthetic polymeric material. Insulation may be provided on the inside of the container. The valve may consist of a plurality of resilient flaps 18 which extend towards each other from the periphery of the valve, and which are formed integral with the container 10. The lid 14 may be integrally formed and hinged to the container 10. The valve 17, 18 may be formed in an upper face 13 of the container, the upper face 13 being hinged to the body of the container 10. There may be a mounting bracket for securing the container to a fixed surface. Holes 15, 16 may be provided in the container 10 for receiving a screw or bolt in order to secure the container 10 to a fixed surface.