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Patent GB-2305849-A (GB)
Title: Supporting a bin lid in an open position
Inventor: BRIGHT MARTYN ANDREW
IPC: B65F1/16
Filed: 1995-10-04
Abstract: A device for supporting a hingedly movable lid 6 of a bin 1 in an open position comprises a clamp 8, for fixing to the bin rim 4, to which is attached a holster 15 which, when in use, receives a prop 19 extending substantially upwardly from the holster 15. The prop 19 is formed with a projection 20 to support the bin lid 6 which may be hinged with respect to the prop 19, being movable from alignment substantially parallel to substantially perpendicular. The prop 19 may be hinged (21), such that it can be locked at a desired angular position with respect to the holster 15. The holster 15 may be hingedly 15A or fixedly mounted to the clamp 8, if hinged then adjustment means 16 may be provided to alter the angle of the holster 15 with respect to the clamp 8.
Patent GB-952930-A (GB)
Abstract: 952,930. Wrapping boxes. FMC CORPORATION. May 17, 1961 [May 20, 1960], No. 17969/6]. Heading B5D. In a box wrapping machine for both tightwrap and loose-wrap work, similar to that described in Specification 934,275, the wrapper and box are held apart by about  # inch after being registered one above the other and are transferred to the wrapping machine with the # inch gap maintained. The wrappers pass through gluing mechanism and are taken by a conveyer, as described in the above referred to Specification, to a registering device (Fig. 3). Fingers 40 having a step on the underside locate the leading edge of the wrapper and members 85 locate the wrapper transversely. The fingers are raised off the conveyer belt to reduce wear when not locating a wrapper by solenoid operated means, the solenoid being energized according to the rotation of a cam on the main shaft. The fingers are mounted on a bar 54 that can be swung away to give access to the wrapping machine. Screw adjustment is provided to position the fingers accurately and means is also provided whereby the wrappers are initially positioned too far to the right in Fig. 3 and a cam on the main shaft causes members 5 and 59 carrying the bar 54 on which the fingers 40 are mounted to move slightly to the left to move the wrapper to the exact required position. The cam that moves the fingers 40 also moves the members 85 to position the wrapper transversely. The members 85 are lowered as they move across the conveyer so that they approach the wrapper and finally engage its edge. The boxes are delivered on a conveyer BC1 having been erected and stayed at the corners by a staying machine. A suction member 125 on an arm 126 engages the endmost box and the arm, which is rotated by cam means on the main shaft, pivots to deliver the box on to supports 116 so that the box is above and in register with the wrapper. A chain drive 179 on the arm ensures that the box remains horizontal when the arm rotates. Further cam means causes a valve to open to release the box on to the supports 116. A manually operated clutch enables the drive to the arm to be disconnected. The transfer mechanism that carries the spaced box and wrapper to the wrapping machine is reciprocated by a link driven by a crank from the main shaft. The transfer mechanism carries stops 211 which engage the box and suction members which engage an edge of the wrapper. When the carriage of the transfer mechanism reciprocates rollers thereon engage a cam track which causes the suction members to rise to clear a platen 223 on the wrapping machine. At the wrapping station, suction is cut off from members 215, the box and wrapper are clamped between the platen 223 and a block F and box wrapping tools complete the application of the wrapper. Specifications 748,753, 748,796 and U.S.A. Specification 2,867,158 also are referred to.
Patent GB-2296938-A (GB)
Title: Self-tightening side lock for a roll-up door
Inventor: CLAY ROY T
IPC: E05B63/12
Filed: 1996-01-11
Abstract: A self-tightening side lock 20 for a roll-up door comprises a keeper 25 mounted on the jamb or door, and a latch 26 pivotally mounted on the door or jamb, an arcuate upper cam surface 34 of the latch 26 engaging a catch 30 on the keeper 25 to hold the door in a self-tightening closed position. A concave notch 50 extends radially into the upper cam surface 34 and receives the catch 30 to prevent further pivotal movement of the latch 26 and bowing of the jamb, and thus thwarts efforts to force the door upwards. The latch 26 has a side cam surface 33 arranged to engage the catch 30 when the door is lowered and to cause the latch 26 to pivot in a clockwise direction allow the latch 26 to pass by the catch 30. The upper cam surface 34 is arranged to engage the catch such that the anti-clockwise movement of the latch 26 will cause the door to be self-tightening.
Patent GB-2309755-A (GB)
Title: Three speed automatic transmission allows ratio change by the operation of a single clutch
Inventor: MATHIS ROLAND
IPC: F16H3/66
Filed: 1996-02-05
Abstract: An automatic transmission (10) comprising a housing (12); a planetary gear train (14) mounted within the housing; an input drive shaft (16) for providing input drive to the planetary gear train; an output drive shaft (18) connected with an output drive (32) from the planetary gear train; a first clutch (C1) connected between the input drive shaft and a first drive input (22) to the planetary gear train; a second brake (C2) acting on a first reaction input (28) to the planetary gear train; and a third clutch (C3) connected between a second drive input (24) to the planetary gear train and the input drive shaft; wherein for first forward gear ratio the first clutch is engaged; for second forward gear ratio the first clutch and the second brake are engaged; and for third forward gear ratio the first and third clutches and the second brake are engaged. Allows gear shift by the operation of a single clutch.
Patent GB-2298250-A (GB)
Title: Plain bearing with overlay
Inventor: MCMEEKIN KENNETH MACLEOD
IPC: F16C33/12
Filed: 1996-02-21
Abstract: A method of making a multi-layer plain bearing (21) comprises roll-bonding a relatively soft aluminium-tin alloy overlay (12) to a harder aluminium-based bearing substrate (10) and then roll-bonding the composite to a steel backing (18). Following heat treatment conventional for reticulation of the aluminium-tin alloy, the surface is machined to give a precise overall bearing thickness of which the aluminium-tin overlay is in the range 0.01-0.10 mm, typical of an overlay but having greater fatigue strength and wear resistance than conventional electro-deposited materials. Aluminium interlayers may be included. The overlay, substrate and backing strips may be roll-bonded simultaneously (Figure 2) or the aluminium-tin alloy may be roll-bonded onto an intermediate bearing of copper-based alloy cast or sintered onto a steel or bronze backing (Figure 3).
Patent GB-2299479-A (GB)
Title: Displaying remaining roll-paper length in image forming apparatus
Inventor: BAEK NAM-DAE
IPC: H04N1/23
Filed: 1996-03-18
Abstract: A method of displaying the remaining length of recording paper in a facsimile system using roll-paper is disclosed. The total length of recording paper is registered by the operator when the recording paper is supplied to a recording paper receptacle. The length of recording paper used when a document is reproduced is counted. Then, the remaining length of recording paper is calculated by subtracting the length of used recording paper from the said total length of recording paper and displaying the remaining length of recording paper.
Patent GB-2314327-A (GB)
Title: Pyrazolone image dye-forming couplers
Inventor: CLARK BERNARD ARTHUR JAMES
IPC: G03C7/384
Filed: 1996-04-30
Abstract: An image magenta-forming coupler of formula (I):- * space *  wherein X is H or a coupling-off group, R is H; or R, R 1 and R 2 are the same or different and are coupler-modifying functional groups; or R 1 and R 2 taken together with the nitrogen atom and the carbonyl group form a 5-10 membered heterocyclic ring which may contain one or more further heteroatoms selected from N, O and S, said heterocyclic ring being unsubstituted or substituted with one or more coupler-modifying functional groups, either with or without another main image dye-forming coupler,is used to provide an image of enhanced stability to exposure to light. The couplers (I) are novel compounds provided that (a) the moiety N(R 1 )COR 2 is not a carbamate,ureide or imide and (6) R 1 and R 2 are not both phenyl or substituted phenyl.
Patent GB-2316920-A (GB)
Title: Motorcycle carriage device with cantilever lift
Inventor: JONES DAVID JOHN
IPC: B60D1/06
Filed: 1996-05-20
Abstract: A lightweight and compact device is disclosed, for towing one or more motorcycles behind a car 13 with the motorcycle front wheel 15 steering, and its back wheel 17 rotating. If more than one motorcycle is carried, they may be separated by a spacing bar (not shown in figures). Fig. 4 shows a cradle 11 with additional pivot 18. Alternatively, a motorcycle may be carried entirely on the cradle, transversely across the car (fig. 9); fig. 5 shows a vice 31 used to grip the cycle forks 35 in this embodiment. A cantilever apparatus may be used to assist in lifting and lowering motorcycles onto and off the carrier, with lower frame 54 hinged to upper frame 52. A bar (59, fig. 7) is attached to point 55 to swing point 56 on frame 54 up to attachment point 51, as shown in figure 8.
Patent GB-2314099-A (GB)
Title: Sterile room structures
Inventor: MCANALLEN KEVIN
IPC: E04F13/08
Filed: 1996-06-14
Abstract: A sterile room structure (1) has an air wall (3) suspended from a purlin (5). The air wall (3) and an outer wall (2) and fixed walls (8) comprise panels (10) of high density phenolic resin construction. The panels are machined along the side edges to provide recesses for interengagement. Support of the panels is by way of bridging members which connect to the rebates (11) at joints between them. Joints are completed by seals of adhesive bio-sealant material to achieve desired adhesion and mechanical flexibility. The combination of phenolic resin panels, aluminium supports and coving members, and seals provides a sealed structure which may be easily modified later.
Patent GB-2315444-A (GB)
Title: Riveting process
Inventor: HADFIELD ROBERT HENRY
IPC: F16B5/04
Filed: 1996-07-18
Abstract: A rivetting process, useful in the manufacture of prototype heating elements requires a substrate component 1 to be faced up to a second component 6 of greater hardness and a punch 2 and die 3 to be used to form a rivetting projection 4 from that side of the substrate component 1 which faces away from the second component 6, the punch 2 being driven into and through the second component 6 and into the substrate component 1 so as to detach from the second component 6 a slug 7 of material which is forced into the substrate component 1 and causes substrate material to enter the die 3 to form the rivetting projection 4. A subsequent rivetting operation upon the rivetting projection 4 backed by the slug 7 advantageously does not result in the collapse of the rivetting projection.
Patent GB-2304855-A (GB)
Title: Cleaning the interior of tubes
Inventor: IGLESIAS JULIO
IPC: B67D1/07
Filed: 1996-08-06
Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning the interior of an alcoholic beverage dispense tube (13) comprising, a first closable container (30) for containing a cleaning liquid, said first container (30) having an outlet (33) adapted to detachably connect one end of said beverage dispense tube (13) thereto and a second closable container (not shown) for containing water. The second closable container has an outlet adapted to detachably connect one end of said beverage dispense tube (13) thereto, so that, in use, by sequential connection of said one end of said tube (13) to said first (30) and second containers, the interior of said tube (13) is cleaned. Each container has a vented lid (31) to prevent contamination of the cleaning fluid and water.
Patent GB-2303890-A (GB)
Title: System for adjusting the working range of a torque converter lockup damper clutch
Inventor: CHUNG WOO-WON
IPC: F16H61/14
Filed: 1995-09-26
Abstract: A system for adjusting the working range of a damper clutch with reference to a linear function representing the relationship between the throttle valve position and the revolution per minute (rpm) of the engine in an automatic transmission of a vehicle, includes a throttle valve position sensor for sensing the amount of opening of the throttle valve to generate an electrical position sensor signal, a shift controller for classifying the throttle valve positions into a first, a second, and a third zone respectively indicating a low, a medium, and a high speed, detecting the throttle valve position in a predetermined interval to determine in which one of the three zones is positioned said throttle valve to find out the frequencies of the throttle valve position appearing in said three zone.
Patent GB-2306627-A (GB)
Title: A reel of a tape player has drive slip controlled by a viscous gel
Inventor: KIM YU-IN
IPC: F16D35/00
Filed: 1996-10-31
Abstract: A feeding reel 200 of a tape player comprises a reel spindle 270 having an accommodating portion 275 filled with a viscous gel G which is sandwiched between a first plate 272, in portion 275, and a second plate 252 in reel gear 250. The gel G allows slippage to occur when it transmits drive from the reel gear 250 to the reel spindle 270, thereby providing a balanced speed between the feeding reel 200 and a winding reel. The drive from the reel spindle is conveyed, via main shaft 240, to rotating reel 230. Main shaft 240 is fixed in boss 210 and rotationally supports reel spindle 270 having a rod 271 on which the reel gear 250 revolves. First and second ribs 274, 254, which are arranged with a small clearance, aid the generation of slippage between the reel spindle 270 and reel gear 250. A spring 260 maintains a constant pressure on the gel G.
Patent GB-2319334-A (GB)
Title: Electric oven
Inventor: LEUNG TIMOTHY BAK-KWAN
IPC: H05B1/02
Filed: 1996-11-19
Abstract: An electric oven comprises automatic switching controls for time and temperature. The oven may use a laser device.
Patent GB-2311763-A (GB)
Title: An excavator and control system
Inventor: LEE JIN HAN
IPC: E02F9/20
Filed: 1996-12-11
Abstract: An excavator comprises a lower running body 79, an upper pivoting body 70, a working device 100 having a plurality of links (40, 50, 60, Fig. 2) attached to the upper pivoting body, a pivoting device 74, a running device 84, sensors (46, 56, 66, Fig. 2) for detecting relative angular positions of the links, and a control system. Hydraulic actuators 74, 84, (41, 51, 61, Fig. 2) are provided for actuating the working device, the pivoting device, and the running device and hydraulic control valves 76, 86, 196, (42, 52, 62, Fig. 2) are provided to control the quantity of hydraulic fluid supplied to the actuators. The control system includes a plurality of function switches 91-94 installed on a switchboard 90 which transfers a signal in accordance with a selected function and displays the selected function, a pair of multi-directional manipulating devices 30, (20, Fig. 2), and a control section 10 which receives signals from the switch board, the manipulating devices, and the angle detecting sensors and transfers them to the hydraulic control valves. Preferably, the switch board comprises an information display section, a levelling switch for determining whether the working surface should be levelled, a bucket angle switch for determining whether to maintain a uniform bucket angle during work, a ground angle switch for determining the inclined angle of the working surface during levelling, and a mode conversion switch for alternating between manual and automatic modes.
Patent GB-2313696-A (GB)
Title: Coin sorting apparatus
Inventor: TANAKA YOSHINOBU
IPC: G07D3/04
Filed: 1997-05-29
Abstract: Disc sorting apparatus, for example for coins, includes a disc guide device (Figure 5) comprising a guide wall (32) defining a guide surface for supporting discs and along which discs are conveyed in use. The guide wall (32) has a number of holes (1,50,5, 100,10,500) for sorting discs of different sizes, each hole having a dimension corresponding to a different disc diameter and arranged from smallest to largest in the direction of conveyance of the discs. The sizes of the holes ( 1, 50, 5, 100, 10) , may be adjustable by slidable plates 41-45 and members 51-54 may be associated with some of the holes to prevent the discs from vibrating as they are conveyed.
Patent GB-2311134-A (GB)
Title: Level indicating device for,eg,a snooker table
Inventor: SMITH RAYMOND
IPC: G01C9/28
Filed: 1997-06-06
Abstract: A level indicating device comprising at least one support arm 2 supporting a level indicating means, such as a long spirit level 9, and being pivotally mounted at one end about a normally horizontal axis 3 on a base 4 which has a support surface or surfaces lying in a plane parallel to said pivotal axis and supporting the axis at a distance from said plane sufficient to permit pivoting of the arm by an amount as might result from an unlevel table. Each support arm 2 has support-and-adjustment means 10 at its other end for supporting the arm on the surface to be levelled and for enabling adjustment of the height of said arm above this surface to achieve a horizontal indication from the level indicating means, and an indicator means including a "zero" or datum level indicating the position of the support arm relative to the adjustment means when the device is located on a perfectly horizontal surface and the support surface or surfaces of the base or reference means and the support surface of the support and adjusted means lie on a horizontal plane.
Patent GB-2328329-A (GB)
Title: Guiding pins for an electrical connection
Inventor: PANCORBO JOSE LUIS
IPC: H01R12/71
Filed: 1997-08-13
Abstract: In order to space apart the terminal pins of an electrical component before the component is mounted on a printed circuit board, the component is placed in a guide body 18 which has pin guide sockets 32 with funnel-like mouths through which the pins pass to be guided through apertures 36 which are offset to different sides of an imaginary median line of the sockets. The component may be an LCD panel.
Patent GB-2321020-A (GB)
Title: Footballs
Inventor: WEBB LAWRENCE EDWARD
IPC: A63B41/00
Filed: 1998-01-08
Abstract: In order to improve the ballistic properties of a football, typically a rugby football, a relatively massive inflation valve assembly 4 is provided on the inflatable bladder 6 The assembly 4 may incorporate metal or plastic weights W1, W2, W3 and/or a dense textile mat 9 to provide additional weight. A channel 8 extends along the outer surface of the assembly 4 and into which the inturned sewn sides of adjacent cover panels may seat so the valve nipple 5 can project through the seam of the ball. Providing the massive and heavy valve assembly in the seam of the ball in this way improves the flight when kicked at a point opposite the valve and on the opposed seam.
Patent GB-2334666-A (GB)
Title: Mesh ball containing grains of detergent
Inventor: LEU SHIOW JIUAN FREIDA
IPC: A47L17/08
Filed: 1998-02-27
Abstract: A ball having grains of detergent 2 enclosed within a mesh covering 1 for use in dish washing. The mesh covering 1 may have plastic, nylon or cotton threads which may be elastic. The size of the open spaces in the mesh 1 is smaller than the size of the grains 2.
Patent GB-2343449-A (GB)
Title: Alkylation of amino acids
Inventor: RADLEY PETER MICHAEL
IPC: C07C229/24
Filed: 1998-11-09
Abstract: A process for the preparation of amino acid derivatives in free acid or salt form, in which the nitrogen atoms of two or more amino acid molecules are linked by a hydrocarbyl or substituted hydrocarbyl group, comprises reacting, in an aqueous medium at a pH in the range 7-14, a compound of the formula X-A-Y where X and Y are halo atoms which may be the same or different with the proviso that at least one of X and Y is a chloro atom and A is a hydrocarbyl or substituted hydrocarbyl group, in which X and Y are attached to aliphatic or cycloaliphatic carbon atoms, with an amino acid (or salt thereof), wherein the reaction is carried out in the presence of dissolved anions of bromine and in the presence of dissolved cations of an alkaline earth metal or of a transition metal.
Patent GB-2343651-A (GB)
Title: Plastics moulding
Inventor: SLEMMINGS VICTOR PHILIP
IPC: B29C45/17
Filed: 1998-11-10
Abstract: In producing large plastics mouldings 10 using a cold runner system, there is a problem with sink marks in the areas where there is a large thickness of plastics (eg the runners 18). To avoid this, gas under pressure is introduced into the mould, on the B surface (i.e. the back face that is at least less visible or out of sight) of the moulding, in those areas where sink marks would be anticipated. The gas forces the A surface (i.e. the front or visible face) of the moulding against the corresponding mould wall so that it solidifies without sink marks. The mould surface can be roughened in certain areas 32 so that the gas only flows in those areas between the solidifying moulding and the mould wall, and does not penetrate other areas. The mouldings are vehicle instrument panels.
Patent GB-2338383-A (GB)
Title: Synchronising demultiplexed audio and video signals
Inventor: OKA SUSUMU
IPC: H04N21/43
Filed: 1999-01-26
Abstract: The correct and prompt synchronization of data in decoding and reproducing multiplexed coded data multiplexed with a plurality of media coded data in the unit of packet is needed without regard to the configuration or characteristics of the apparatus. To ensure that the decoder synchronizes the video and audio data correctly, the timing controller 12 obtains a buffering time indicated by the time difference between the decoding end time and the specified presentation time contained in the data, and data buffering is performed by buffer memory 15. The video decoding end time is latched from the system time counter 11 according to a timing pulse generated by the video decoder when the first decoded data is output from video decoder after the data decoder is activated.
Patent GB-2335402-A (GB)
Title: Lever propelled wheelchair
Inventor: TAYLOR WILLIAM G
IPC: A61G5/02
Filed: 1997-09-23
Abstract: The wheelchair employs the use of two push levers (20) attached to two front drive sprockets (13), which propel the two main rear wheels (2) of the wheelchair through chains (11) connecting the front sprockets to gear clusters (9) mounted on the rear wheel axles. Ratchet mechanisms (18) allow each push lever to transmit power to the drive sprockets in either a forward or reverse direction. Derailers (10) are mounted at each rear axle and are activated by shifter mechanisms mounted on the push levers. Caper wheel brakes (23) are mounted on the frame beside each rear wheel and activated by hand brake levers (25) mounted on the push levers.
Patent GB-2348758-A (GB)
Title: Digital image processing
Inventor: CHAPMAN SYDNEY GEORGE
IPC: H04N5/262
Filed: 1999-04-08
Abstract: Digital image data representing first and second images I1 and I2 with overlapping image content are processed to produce digital image data representing a composite image I3 spanning the overlap region O. Image data which corresponds to the overlap region in the first and second images I1 and I2 is processed such that the proportions of first image data and second image data contributing to the overlap region O in the composite image I3 vary along the length L of the overlap region O. Preferred methods include defining a non-straight line extending along the length of the overlap region O, and performing the processing by reference to the non-straight line such that the ratio of the proportions of first and second image data contributing to the overlap region O varies for different sections of the overlap region O along the length L.