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Patent GB-2132358-A (GB)
Title: Sensing apparatus
Inventor: BRITTON ANDREW MICHAEL
IPC: G01V3/10
Filed: 1983-11-10
Abstract: Sensing apparatus for sensing a change in condition, comprises at least two coils 6, 7 adapted to generate a magnetic flux circuit, each coil 6, 7 being wound anti-phase, so that signals from the coils 6 and 7 balance, in a stable condition, while the mutual coupling between the coils 6 and 7 is disturbed by a change from the stable condition, with a display device to display the sensed condition. Preferably the coils 6, 7 are arranged on the limbs 8, 9 of a magnet 2 which is excited by a primary coil 4 arranged on the body 5 of the magnet. The apparatus may be applied to the sensing of displacement, or acceleration, in the degree of ferrous or non-ferrous contamination of lubricating oil. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2156218-A (GB)
Title: A foot bath
Inventor: KUROSAWA TADASHI
IPC: A61H35/00
Filed: 1984-02-17
Abstract: The foot bath comprises a body (1) having an openable cover (3). A hot water jet injector (18) is provided at the front of the foot bath and a foot vibrator is provided to vibrate a person's feet and hot water in the foot bath. Calf vibrators (9) are provided at the rear of the foot bath. Toe receiving shoulders (15) are provided to support a person's toes so as to effectively provide vibration to said toes. Finger-pressure massaging projections (14) are provided on the bottom of the foot bath and an infrared radiation device is provided behind a perforated covering plate (4) on the cover (3). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2141076-A (GB)
Title: Semi-submersible marine platform
Inventor: COPSON ALEXANDER GEORGE
IPC: B63B35/44
Filed: 1984-05-21
Abstract: The invention provides a semi- submersible marine platform comprising a) an above water deck (2), b) upright tubular buoyancy and support legs disposed (in plan view) at the apices of a polygon and extending from below water up into supporting engagement with the deck (2), c) a ring of horizontal base members (14) connecting the buoyancy support legs underwater and d) a stabiliser leg (11) outrigged symmetrically between each respective pair of adjacent buoyancy support legs and extending from underwater to project above mean water level. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2142986-A (GB)
Title: Distribution-type fuel injection pump
Inventor: TANAKA TOSHIAKI
IPC: F02M41/14
Filed: 1984-06-28
Abstract: A chamber (48) containing a portion of the distribution rotor (14) in which pumping plungers (22, 24) reciprocate is in constant communication with the inlet side of a fuel transfer pump (64) by a fuel passage (78). Fuel delivered by the transfer pump is supplied through a passage 46' which registers with charging ports (40) in the distributor rotor (14), as the latter rotates. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2164411-A (GB)
Title: Pipe mole
Inventor: ROBBINS BRIAN ARTHUR
IPC: F16L55/165
Filed: 1984-08-24
Abstract: Apparatus for use in underground pipe replacement comprises an outer casing having a probe (1) which is adapted to fit into an existing pipeline, a frusto-conical portion (6) leading from the probe (1) and having a smaller end having substantially the same diameter as the outer diameter of the probe and a larger end having a diameter which is greater than that of the existing pipeline, and a cylindrical portion (11) leading from the larger end of the frusto-conical portion and having substantially the same diameter as said larger end. A driving unit including an impact mole (20) is located within the outer casing and is spaced from the cylindrical portion (11). The space between the mole (20) and the cylindrical portion (11) is adapted to receive the leading end of a replacement pipe (30). Means are provided for forcing the pipe through a bore created by the outer casing by acting on the trailing or rearward end of the replacement pipe. Further means are provided for withdrawing the driving unit from the outer casing through the replacement pipe (30) by means of a cable attached to the rear end of the driving unit, whereby the latter can be withdrawn from the outer casing while leaving said casing in situ to allow repair of the unit or temporary use of the original and replacement pipe combination. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2163642-A (GB)
Title: Door handle assembly
Inventor: WEISSHAUPT HELMUT
IPC: E05B3/10
Filed: 1984-08-28
Abstract: A door handle assembly for operating a door catch in which a first support plate 10 is provided with a captive tiltable first handle 14 and a second support plate 24 is mountable on the other face of the door. The second handle has a square cross-section shaft 30 permanently secured thereto. The shaft is split at the free end and is provided with a recess 36 intersecting the split 35, in which a set screw 22 in the first handle can engage, so that a pulling force on either the first or second handle will be transmitted via the shaft to the other handle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2166115-A (GB)
Title: Storage devices
Inventor: COWLING MARTIN JOHN RICHARD
IPC: B65H75/40
Filed: 1984-10-04
Abstract: A storage device 10 for cable and the like comprises winch means 12 formed with a slot 16 within a housing 18 having separable portions 20 and 22 whereby the cable 38 can be located in a slot 16 of the winch and both ends of the cable can be wound-in, thereby to store excess cable. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2149672-A (GB)
Title: Starting stalls for racing
Inventor: WOOD EDWIN HASWELL
IPC: A63K3/00
Filed: 1984-11-15
Abstract: A starting stall 4 for horse racing has at least two spaced apart sides 3, and a releasable elongate retaining means 5, in the form of a leash or cord, which extends between the sides and adjacent a horse's head, so as to allow for releasable engagement between the retaining means and a horse's bridle or head gear. The retaining means 5 is releasable from the bridle or head gear when the horse is to leave the stall. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-844350-A (GB)
Abstract: 844,350. Knitting. VAN RAALTE CO. Inc. July 14, 1958, No. 22516/58. Class 74 (2). To avoid the prominent appearance in a warp fabric, such as in a Double Atlas fabric, of the changeover course due to the difference in the formation of the changeover loops caused by the reversing of the direction of movement of the guide-bars at the end of each traverse, the two guide-bars of a warp machine are given a modified motion during the formation of the intermediate loops so that these intermediate loops simulate the changeover loops. The changeover loops are formed of one closed and one open loop, as shown, for example, in Fig. 1, or two open loops, as shown, for example, in Fig. 5. The intermediate loops to simulate these changeover loops are formed of one open and one closed loop, as shown in Fig. 7 or 8, by appropriately shogging and operating the guidebars. The machine may have a single set or row of needles, or it may be a Simplex machine which employs two sets of needles.
Patent GB-2154037-A (GB)
Title: Alarm unit
Inventor: HALL ANTHONY PEARSON
IPC: G08B13/14
Filed: 1985-01-15
Abstract: The alarm unit 1 has an oscillator 5 powered by a dry battery 6 to generate a reference frequency signal of 10 KHz which is applied to a four-arm impedance bridge 8 including both adjustable resistances 9, 10, and coaxial cable interconnections to a television receiver and video recorder connected via terminals 11 and 12 respectively coaxial cable 2. The resistances 9 and 10 are set to values such that there is no potential difference across points A and B of bridge 8 when terminals 11 and 12 are connected to appliances 3 and 4. If the electrical connection between the alarm unit and either appliance is damaged or broken, the impedance arms become unbalanced which causes monostable circuit 13 to generate a pulse to activate a switch which diverts the oscillator output from the impedance bridge to an annunciator. A key switch must be operated to silence the annunciator and reset the alarm. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2169519-A (GB)
Title: Banging toy
Inventor: CHANG CHIH-RUNG
IPC: A63H5/00
Filed: 1985-01-15
Abstract: A banging toy has the form of a rod 1 with a resiliently compressible cup 5 at its lower end, the cup being sealed off from the exterior by a paper sheet (not shown) extended across its mouth so that when the cup 5 is compressed, by the rod, against a hard surface, the air within the cups compressed to rupture the paper sheet and make a loud bang. Such a paper sheet is held sealingly between an upper flange of the cup, supported by a lower fastening member 4 and an annular upper disc forming the lower end of a member 3 secured to the lower end of the rod 1. The upper and lower members 3 and 4 are releasably connected to allow the removal of a ruptured sheet of paper and its replacement by an imperforate sheet of paper. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2153305-A (GB)
Title: Polishing apparatus
Inventor: TRUSSLER JOHN WILLIAM ALFRED
IPC: B24B37/10
Filed: 1985-01-22
Abstract: Chemical polishing apparatus comprises a ring (7) for mounting above a polishing pad (1). A holder (6) is mounted in liquid e.g. etchant, or gas e.g. air bearings (11, 12, 14) in the ring (7) and carries substrates (4) for polishing. Polishing etchant is supplied by a pipe (3). The pad (2) may be held stationary and is rotated on a table (1). A liquid e.g. etchant or gas e.g. air turbine (14, 15, 16) rotates the holder (6). Vertical positioning of the holder (6) in the ring (7) is determined by the rate of liquid or gas flow to the bearing (12). Prior to chemical polishing the substrate (4) may be mechanically polished in an abrasive slurry. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2154626-A (GB)
Title: Floor panels
Inventor: PAYNE HAROLD JAMES WILLIAM
IPC: E04B5/48
Filed: 1985-02-21
Abstract: A floor panel (10) of troughed section has a bottom facing part or parts (14) with dovetail grooves (22) affording retention for hangers (40). Alternatively, the bottom facing part or parts can be separate from the troughed panel but secured or securable thereto across a downwardly open channel. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2154859-A (GB)
Title: Brackets
Inventor: FRIEL WILLIAM PATRICK
IPC: H01Q1/12
Filed: 1985-02-28
Abstract: A bracket has an elongate anchorage plate (10) spaced by a web (16) from a securing plate (18). The plate (10) has pairs of apertures (12) provided symmetrically thereof, each pair being receiving the screw-threaded ends of the limbs of a V- or U-bolt (14) to permit a pole of an aerial to be clamped between said bolts (14) and said plate (10). The bracket may be embedded in the wall or mounted on the outer surface thereof by means of the plate (18). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2172710-A (GB)
Title: Nucleating agents
Inventor: SMITH NORMAN ALFRED
IPC: G03C1/485
Filed: 1985-03-15
Abstract: There is described a method of preparing a direct positive photographic image which comprises imagewise exposing photographic material which comprises a silver halide emulsion of the internal latent image type for form an internal image, developing the exposed photographic material by use of a silver halide developing solution which comprises substantially no silver halide solvent in the presence of a compound of general formula II:-   <IMAGE> where, R<1>, R<2> each represent a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group or where R<1>, R<2> together form a ring system. Ar is an optionally substituted aromatic ring system which may be fused with other ring systems. In the process of the present invention an internal latent image is formed in the exposed silver halide crystals. When the material is developed in the presence of a compound of formula II the non-solvent developer is unable to develop the internal latent image. However, the nucleating agent fogs the unexposed crystals and renders them developable in the silver halide developing agent. But the nucleating agent is not able to fog the exposed crystals which contain an internal latent image. Thus after a direct positive image is formed.
Patent GB-2165284-A (GB)
Title: Subsea well electrical connector system
Inventor: GREINER TOM DALE
IPC: E21B33/04
Filed: 1985-05-09
Abstract: A submersible pump installation for a subsea well has an electrical connection that is hydraulically made up with provisions to avoid contact with sea water. The submersible pump is suspended by a suspension head located in a tubular member at the subsea wellhead. An electrical insulator is movably carried in a passage extending through a wall of the tubular member. An electrical connector pin is carried in the insulator. A piston moves the insulator into contact with the suspension head, then the connector pin into engagement with the electrical connector located in the suspension head. A seal and dielectric fluid in the suspension head serve to prevent contamination by liquids in the subsea wellhead.
Patent GB-2177645-A (GB)
Title: Cross perforator
Inventor: CLARKE GERALD LANGSHAW
IPC: B26F1/24
Filed: 1985-07-13
Abstract: Across perforator for a web fed printing press includes a plurality of different diameter perforator cylinders 35-39 carred in spaced apart discs 7,7' which are themselves carried in side frames 2, 3. The discs can be rotated in the side frames to select anyone of the perforator cylinders to contact an anvil cylinder 52. Means 33, 23 are provided for locking the discs against rotation and for locating accurately the selected perforator cylinder. Each perforator cylinder carries its own driven gearwheel to accept drive from a common driving gear 51 when that perforator cylinder is brought to an operating position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2162892-A (GB)
Title: Window support
Inventor: POCOCK DEREK WILLIAM
IPC: E05D15/44
Filed: 1985-08-07
Abstract: A window support apparatus in the form of a friction stay has a spacer pad (32) mounted on a lower side of a raised section (26) of a pivot member (18). The pad (32) does not protrude substantially beyond the side edges of the pivot member (18) and thus cannot foul the rebate on a window. The pad (32) occupies the space between the pivot member (18) and a track (10) when the stay is in a closed position to maintain the parallel relationship therebetween. A closure member (38) is retained in an end of the track (10) by crimping. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2181093-A (GB)
Title: Compressible, laminated fire-sealing material
Inventor: PATTERSON KEITH RICHARD
IPC: E04B1/94
Filed: 1985-09-27
Abstract: A compressible laminate for use in forming a fire seal in a cavity or void in building construction comprises a layer of compressible fire-resistant or fire-retardant material, e.g. open-cell foam, which permits the passage of air in the plane of the laminate and one or more layers of a preferably encapsulated intumescent sheet material comprising graphite and vermiculite. The laminate may be used, inter alia, in elongate block form.
Patent GB-2182374-A (GB)
Title: Retaining wall
Inventor: KHOO KIAN WUI
IPC: E02D29/02
Filed: 1985-10-04
Abstract: A retaining wall structure comprises horizontal wall pieces (2) stacked one upon another and arranged end-to-end. Between the stacked pieces are rib-and-groove joints (6, 13), the rib (13) and the groove (6) of each joint having a clearance therebetween over all of their common cross-sectional peripheral zone except at rectangular- section edges (7) of the mouth of the groove (6). Each piece (2) includes a thick stabilising horizontal flange (8) extending into compacted material (17) and an opposite, thick horizontal flange (12). A horizontal, stabilizing beam 16 can extend into a recess (4, Fig. 4) in an inclined surface (11) of a foot of one of the ribs (13). Between the end-to-end pieces are projection- and-recess joints (5). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-983529-A (GB)
Title: A mechanism for converting rotary motion to reciprocating motion
Inventor: SCHULTZ HAROLD BARGEN
IPC: F16H21/18
Filed: 1963-03-04
Abstract: 983,529. Reciprocating pumps. BENDIX CORPORATION. March 4, 1963, No. 8527/63. Heading F1A. [Also in Division F2] A reciprocating hydraulic pump comprises a driving shaft 64 having an eccentric journal 70, a piston 106 sliding in a cylinder 100, a connecting link 160 having at one end a saddle abutting the journal 70 and at the other end a bore 162 disposed parallel to the shaft 64 and a milled slot 164 intersecting the bore, a pivot pin 168 positioned in the bore 162 and having a blind transverse bore 166 opening into the slot 164 and receiving one end of the piston 106, and a piston return spring 170 which acts on the piston through a retainer 172 to hold the piston in the bore 166 and the link 160 against the eccentric journal 70. The pump housing comprises a casting 10 closed by a cover plate 12 and provided with a filler cap. Return fluid is conducted to a reservoir 16 through an inlet connection 54, a duct 56, a part annular chamber 60, and an annular filter 44. The cylinder 100 is formed in a body 96 which together with a member 114 and a plastics hold-down member 142 is held fast in a lipped casting boss 90 by a screwed end cap 148. The driving shaft 64 which may be V-belt driven is mounted in line with the cylinder 100 in a casting boss 18 having a cylindrical opening 74. Fluid suction from the reservoir 16 is conducted through a duct 122 in the boss 90 and ducts 124, 126 in the member 114 into a counterbore 108. The duct 126 is provided with an inlet, spring-loaded, one-way valve 110. Discharge from the counterbore 108 is conducted through a duct 134 in the member 114, a duct 146 in the hold-down member 142 and an outlet connection 156. The duct 134 is provided with an outlet, spring-loaded, oneway valve 136. An unloading pin 128 sliding through the member 114 is biased away from the valve 110 by a spring 150 until discharge pressure increases sufficiently to produce a pressure differential across the pin capable of overcoming the spring force whereupon the valve 110 is lifted off its seat to unload the pump. Specification 965,504 is referred to.
Patent GB-2183475-A (GB)
Title: Tissue immunodespeciating and conserving product
Inventor: DUO IKER ARANGUREN
IPC: A61K31/22
Filed: 1985-12-10
Abstract: A product which stops rejection by the body of organic tissue transplants comprises a salt solution containing ethyl bromoacetate in a concentration of from 3 x 10<-4> to 3 x 10<-5>, the medium of the solution being the TC Hank's liquid of iso-osmolarity (320-340 mosm) = 0.7 Mn m<2> O DEG C and pH = 7.3-7.5; the solution optionally contains up to 36.7% of glycerine. Tissue for transplanting is treated with the solution prior to implanting.
Patent GB-2190580-A (GB)
Title: Heel production
Inventor: ETCHES MICHAEL DAVID
IPC: A43B23/24
Filed: 1986-05-20
Abstract: To simplify production of "two- tone" heels, a one piece heel element (10) is moulded and provided with a peripheral groove (13) intermediate its upper and lower surfaces (11, 12). Two pieces (21, 22) of contrasting fabric are cut to size and stitched together to form a cover (20) which is attached to the element (10) with the seam (23) accommodated in the groove (13). The cover is usually adhered to the element (10) but may additionally be secured by staples, tacks or stitches. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2194565-A (GB)
Title: Roof eave piece to direct water on roofing felt to the gutter
Inventor: GREENSLADE PERCY HENRY
IPC: E04D13/064
Filed: 1986-08-30
Abstract: A roofing eave piece comprises an apron 10 and an integral skirt 11 fitted with the apron lying under roofing felt at the eaves of the roof with the skirt depending into a rainwater gutter. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2182869-A (GB)
Title: Decanter centrifuge
Inventor: HIGH ROBERT EDWARD
IPC: B04B1/20
Filed: 1986-11-14
Abstract: In a decanter centrifuge for separation of light and heavy phase material and composed of a rotatable bowl (33) with discharge orifices (36 and 39) for the different phases and containing a screw conveyor with a hub (15) supporting helical flights (15A and 15B) defining a helical chamber divided into a separating zone (40) and a discharging zone (41) by a baffle (5) connected between an adjacent pair (13 and 14) of the flights and providing a restricted passageway (16, 17) between the zones, the baffle is in the form of a flap hinged to the hub so as to be closed under centrifugal force during operation of the centrifuge and to be opened under pressure from excessively heavy phase material to permit passage from the separating zone (40) to the discharging zone (41) of abnormal heavy phase material. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2183452-A (GB)
Title: Meal tray
Inventor: SHUTLER NORMAN CHARLES
IPC: A47G19/06
Filed: 1986-11-24
Abstract: A plastics meal tray has a base and a lid formed seperately and detachably connected together by plugs formed on the base being received in sockets formed on hinge tabs on the lid. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2183864-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable devices
Inventor: TYRER JOHN RAYMOND
IPC: G02B7/00
Filed: 1986-11-28
Abstract: An adjustment device has two members interconnected for relative movement via a spring (30), and a screw (37) threadably engaged with one (10) of the members and operable by way of two balls (26, 28) to separate the members, the balls being constrained for movement along respective passageways (18, 14) extending into the one member in mutually inclined communication, and the balls mutually engaging at the passageway junction. The second member may provide a support in an optical bench. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2187986-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for attaching an element to a panel
Inventor: MULLER ROBERT
IPC: B23P19/02
Filed: 1987-02-02
Abstract: An installation apparatus and method of attaching a female element, such as a nut, to a panel, wherein the panel is pierced and the female element is permanently installed in the pierced panel opening in a continuous operation. The female element includes a body portion and an annular barrel portion. In one of the methods disclosed, the panel is pierced by the free end of the barrel portion and the panel slug is disposed in the barrel portion as the nut is installed in the panel. In the presently preferred method, the panel is pierced by a punch received through the body and barrel portions, prior to driving the female element into a mechanical interlock with the panel. In the preferred installation, the free end of the barrel portion is deformed into a hook-shaped end portion, opening toward the body portion, and the panel is simultaneously driven into the hook-shaped barrel end portion, forming a very secure mechanical interlock. The preferred installation apparatus includes an annular plunger which drives the female element into the panel and which is reciprocally supported in a chamber in a base member attached to one die member of a press. A punch is located within the annular plunger which pierces the panel prior to driving the female element into the panel, as described.
Patent GB-2189263-A (GB)
Title: A pattern device for circular knitting machines
Inventor: BIEDERMANN BERND
IPC: D04B15/76
Filed: 1987-03-02
Abstract: A pattern device for circular knitting machines comprises a drum (7) with axial grooves (8) for accommodating pattern slides (9), the drum being driven by the needle cylinder and enclosed by cam rings (10ato 13a) defining a plurality of cam channels (20, 21, 22) which guide the feet of the pattern slides and lift them to effect the desired needle selection. A cam ring segment which extends over at least the width of one groove and is located at a position remote from the needle cylinder is made detachable for the purpose of inserting the pattern slides (9) or associating them with their cam channel (20, 21, 22). <IMAGE>