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Patent GB-2284589-A (GB)
Title: Fermenting beer within a package
Inventor: BOULTON CHRISTOPHER ALAN
IPC: C12M1/00
Filed: 1994-11-16
Abstract: Fermentation, secondary fermentation or primary fermentation, of beer or other fermentable material occurs within a container in which the beer is packaged by providing yeast 10 within the container, the yeast being held in a sachet 5 or positioned behind other restraining means, so as to allow the beer to contact the yeast but prevent the yeast from entering the beer and making it cloudy. The sachet is preferably mechanically located in the container, e.g. by a froth promoting means 4 or other insert. The container may be a can or a bottle or a carton. The yeast is introduced into the container in a dormant or inactive state, delaying means being present which delays the contact between the beer and the yeast for a significant time, e.g. to allow pasteurisation or sterilisation of the beer to take place. The delaying means may comprise a gell, foam or powder provided within the sachet (34, Figure 3B), a double layered sachet (63, 64, Figure 6A), a piece of cellulose material (72, Figure 7) within the sachet, or a cake of insulation (92, Figure 9). Low alcohol beer can be brewed in the container, whereas if primary fermented beer is introduced into the container secondary fermentation can then take place. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2284972-A (GB)
Title: Fermented bagasse animal feed
Inventor: IRITANI SATOSHI
IPC: A23K10/32
Filed: 1994-12-20
Abstract: Fermented bagasse feed 15 prepared by incorporating a lactic acid bacterium capable of proliferating in an alkaline nutrient culture medium of not less than pH 9.5 or in a nutrient culture medium containing sodium chloride of 6.5 w/w % into an alkali-treated bagasse and a nutrient source and fermenting the resultant mixture.
Patent GB-2285398-A (GB)
Title: Golf bag stand tensioner
Inventor: MAENG SEOP
IPC: A63B102/32
Filed: 1995-01-06
Abstract: A golf bag stand tensioner (5) suitable for fixing and readily controlling the tensile force of the golf bag stand (1) is disclosed. The golf bag stand tensioner (5) is movably fitted over a folding grip (6) of the golf bag stand (1) so that the tensioner (5) selectively goes up and down the folding grip (6) in order for controlling the tensile force of the folding grip (6) as well as the tensile force of the golf bag stand (1). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2286695-A (GB)
Title: Fuel tank pressure control system
Inventor: ITO TAKENORI
IPC: F02D41/00
Filed: 1995-01-31
Abstract: In a vehicle fuel supply system including a fuel tank 1 and a purge canister 2, a pressure control valve 19 is activated to regulate the fuel vapour pressure in the tank and a purge solenoid valve 20 is actuated in accordance with the engine operation conditions to supply fuel adsorbed in the canister 2 to the engine intake. The aim is to prevent possible damage to the tank resulting from excessive negative pressures or the loss of fuel vapour to the atmosphere resulting from excessive positive pressures which would otherwise develop in the tank. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2300252-A (GB)
Title: Decorative lamp assembly adapted to provide silhouetting effects
Inventor: YU CHAI-CHI
IPC: F21S10/00
Filed: 1995-04-24
Abstract: A decorative lamp assembly includes a mounting unit (12) and an enclosure body (13, 15) fastened to the mounting unit (12). The enclosure body (13, 15) has a cover portion provided with an external surface. An electric bulb unit is installed within the enclosure body. A transparent rotary member (26) has an opaque pattern unit (262) indicated thereon and is mounted rotatably within the enclosure body (13, 15) so as to be located between the bulb unit and the cover portion, thereby shielding the bulb unit in such a manner that rays of light emitted from the bulbs (23) pass through the transparent portion of the rotary member (26) and penetrate partially the cover portion to display silhouettes of the pattern unit (262) on the external surface. A driving unit (24) rotates the rotary member (26).
Patent GB-2300597-A (GB)
Title: An information display booklet with fan folded sheet
Inventor: PERRY STUART
IPC: B42D1/00
Filed: 1995-05-11
Abstract: The booklet comprises a folder (10, Fig 1) having marginal, inwardly folded flaps (18, 19, 20, 22) and a fan-folded sheet 28 having end panels 29, 30 for location under the flaps and intermediate panels 31-40. The arrangement is such that the folder (10) and sheet 28 combine to form a multipage booklet and the sheet is removable from the folder to form a display sheet when flattened from the folded condition. The information displayed may be sport statistical information or a map.
Patent GB-2291664-A (GB)
Title: Method and device for drilling for oil or gas
Inventor: BROEDER RENE
IPC: E21B19/00
Filed: 1995-07-17
Abstract: In a method and device for drilling for oil and gas in an underwater bed by means of a drilling rig with a drilling derrick (14) disposed on a floating drilling platform (1) or on an underwater bed, prior to the placing of a casing string (32), the placing of a riser string (26) or the drilling of a hole, one or more parts of the casing string (32), the riser string (26) or the drill string are pre-assembled on the drilling rig at one or more pre-assembly points which are in a position which is different from the position of the drilling derrick (14). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2292153-A (GB)
Title: Silicone composition for dental impressions
Inventor: KAMOHARA HIROSHI
IPC: A61K6/90
Filed: 1995-07-20
Abstract: A silicone composition for taking dental impressions comprises A) 100 parts by weight of an organopolysiloxane having at least two aliphatic unsaturated groups per molecule, B) 0. 1 to 30 parts by weight of an organohydrogenpoly-siloxane having per molecule at least three hydrogen atoms directly bonded to a silicone atom, C) 10 to 500 ppm of a silicone-soluble platinum compound, as calculated on the basis of the total amount of A) and B), D) 5 to 500 parts by weight of an inorganic filler, and characterised in that it contains E) 1 to 200 parts by weight of a polyvinyl ether having a polymerization degree of 1,000 to 50,000. This composition provides a paste mixture having an increased strain in compression after curing and a reduced permanent deformation after curing and is unlikely to run down during impression-taking. Upon being cured, oil matter does not bleed out of the surface of the cured mixture.
Patent GB-2293132-A (GB)
Title: Polyketone films
Inventor: POWELL ANTHONY KEITH
IPC: B29D7/01
Filed: 1995-08-21
Abstract: A method for processing polyketone comprises heating a polyketone or a polyketone/polymer blend to a temperature not greater than 15 DEG C above its melting point prior to thermo forming the polyketone or polyketone/polymer blend, the polyketone or polyketone/polymer blend being preferably essentially free of any additives.
Patent GB-2295674-A (GB)
Title: RF choke for MRI coil control cable
Inventor: ARAKAWA MITSUAKI
IPC: A61B5/055
Filed: 1995-09-13
Abstract: An RF choke for use in shielded cable control lines between RF coils and the controller of an MRI system is disclosed. The RF choke is formed of a coil 44 of the conductive tubing in which the control signal wires 40 are housed. A capacitor C2, with a trimmer C2V, is connected in parallel to the coil 44 to form an RF trap acting to prevent passage of spurious RF currents along the outside of the shield conductor. The coil 44 may be toroidal. The control lines may be used to control matching of the RF coils, and to control detuning of the RF coils. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2294150-A (GB)
Title: Sign and sheet material
Inventor: SIENER PHILIP ROBERT
IPC: B32B27/12
Filed: 1995-10-10
Abstract: Signs which include a sheet including plastic stiff enough to resist fracture and flexible enough to maintain surface flatness in use without being put under tension, and such sheets, are described. The sheets are sufficiently flexible at 68 DEG F (20 DEG C) to be wrapped 180 degrees around a two inch (5.1 cm) diameter spindle without breaking or preventing their return to a smooth, planar-surfaced condition while stiff enough that in use said condition exists without regard to whether the sheets are in tension. Each sheet is of plastic centrally reinforced by a layer of fabric 32; indicia are integral with the plastic and created by differential solution of a differently coloured second plastic layer 42 over the first, a third plastic layer 40 is interposed between the first and second as a barrier layer; and in a sign the sheet is held on an inner metal frame by double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape with an outer metal frame thereover. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2307182-A (GB)
Title: Tee setter
Inventor: BURNETT ROBERT JEFFREY
IPC: A63B57/00
Filed: 1995-11-07
Abstract: A device is provided for assisting in the insertion of a golf tee 37 into the ground so that the crown 38 of the tee 37 extends a preselected height above the ground regardless of the length of the tee 37. The device comprises a hollow cylindrical body 1, and a piston 13 which is longitudinally movable inside the bore 11 of the cylindrical body 1. The position of the piston 13 within the bore 11 can be fixed by tightening screw 19 which extends through a threaded radial screw hole 17 in the piston 13. A threaded hole 23 may be provided in a proximal end 3 of the cylindrical body for receiving the stem 25 of a ballmarker 27. An alternative embodiment is described wherein the body is "L" shaped.
Patent GB-2293233-A (GB)
Title: An oil fired burner
Inventor: LAKE GRAHAM ALBERT JOHN
IPC: F24C5/02
Filed: 1994-05-20
Abstract: The burner comprises a cylindrical body (10) defining an oil vaporising chamber (31), an inlet (18) on the body for oil, an inlet (25) on the body (10) for air and a bed (33) of imitation fuel such as ceramic briquettes. The bed of imitation fuel receives vapour from the chamber (31) for combustion around the imitation solid fuel. Heat generated by such combustion is arranged to vaporise oil in the chamber (31) received from the oil inlet (18). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2310682-A (GB)
Title: A ladder stabiliser
Inventor: MARTIN JOE
IPC: E06C7/48
Filed: 1996-02-27
Abstract: An attachment for a ladder 7 that increases the stability of the ladder 7, particularly against sideways movement, by placing support members 2 under a horizontal surface on the wall, eg a widow sill 8, and thus jams the ladder 7 between the ground and the window sill 8. The attachment comprises support members 2, pads 6 for engaging a surface and a handle mechanism 4 for operating the support members. The handle 4 operates the support members 2 simultaneously via a spindle 3 that is attached to a mounting plate 1. A ratchet mechanism locks the support members 2 in position. The spindle 3 may have a spool 9 located on it for storing a cable. This cable can be used to secure the ladder to other objects to increase the ladder's stability.
Patent GB-2298120-A (GB)
Title: Snack product comprising a dough envelope and a filling based on crumbs fat and starch
Inventor: CLARK DAVE NIGEL
IPC: A23L7/157
Filed: 1994-10-28
Abstract: A baked snack product (1) comprises an envelope (2) and a filling, the filling (4) being the baked product of a mixture comprising a starch-based crumb material, a fat and a binding material, the envelope (2) having a moisture content of not more than 10 % by weight based on the weight of the envelope and the filling (4) having a moisture content of not more than 10 % by weight based on the total weight of the filling. The product may be made by forming a dough sheet, enclosing within an envelope made from the sheet a portion of a mixture of a starch-based crumb material, fat and binding material, and baking the envelope and the enclosed mixture. The baked product has an unusual and interesting texture.
Patent GB-2313102-A (GB)
Title: Holder for vehicle licence disc
Inventor: LEVITT DAVID MICHAEL
IPC: G09F3/20
Filed: 1996-05-14
Abstract: A holder for a vehicle licence disc, parking permit or other vehicle document comprises a transparent sheet member 1 having adhesive (optionally protected prior to use by a release sheet 2) on a surface to be adhered to the front of such a document so that the document cannot be removed without tamper-indicating damage. The holder has a second surface (including areas 3, 4) to face in the opposite direction to the previously-mentioned surface and bear adhesive (on those areas 3, 4) for adhering the holder to a vehicle window so that the document is visible through the window. The second surface may be on a backing member 9 which extends beyond the transparent member 1 and may be of card or plastics. The transparent member 1 may be of plastics and joined to the backing member along only one edge so that it can be pivoted to a raised position such as shown during attachment of the document.
Patent GB-2314564-A (GB)
Title: Colloidal composition for clarifying a fermented beverage
Inventor: MORSON BARRY
IPC: C08B37/00
Filed: 1996-06-29
Abstract: The composition comprises pectin having a molecular size range indicated by a limiting viscosity number less than 0.5, preferably from 0.005 to 0.2, such composition being obtained by depolymerisation of a natural pectin with pectinase at e.g. 30-60{C for from 1-4 days. The modified pectin may also be partially de-esterified by treatment with dilute alkali. The natural pectin may be an apple, citrus, beet, carrot, potato or sunflower pectin. The composition may also include a small quantity of isinglass and may be used in the fining of ales, beers, lagers and wines or low alcohol derivatives thereof.
Patent GB-2316296-A (GB)
Title: Fluids container holder
Inventor: SULLMAN RUSSELL
IPC: A47G23/02
Filed: 1996-08-22
Abstract: The fluids container holder includes a holder and its attached handle. A detachable top may be optionally provided. The holder is rigid and shaped to fit around the required fluid container. The holder may be modified to assist in pouring, and marked to indicate quantity of fluid dispensed. The holder may have a second handle which may be oblique to its base (Figure 3). The holder may be designed to hold a carton, as shown, or a bottle.
Patent GB-2307221-A (GB)
Title: Grab Mechanism
Inventor: WELLER FRANK CHARLES
IPC: B66C3/16
Filed: 1996-11-07
Abstract: A grab mechanism (10) comprises an odd number of petals (20) with actuators (24) to open and close the petals (20). At least one petal (20) is operable independently of the others. By repeatedly closing and opening one petal (20) while the other petals (20) remain open, with the mechanism (10) resting on a floor, the mechanism walks over the floor in the direction in which the operating petal (20) opens. Hence the grab mechanism (10) can retrieve objects which are not directly beneath its point of support.
Patent GB-2314516-A (GB)
Title: Integral oil reservoir, filter and tamper-proof valve unit
Inventor: DOBSON RICHARD
IPC: F01M11/00
Filed: 1996-11-14
Abstract: An integral oil reservoir, filter and tamperproof valve unit, which is designed for use only once, combines the engine oil reservoir 1 and filter 2 in a separate unit to the engine to enable the engine oil and filter to be changed quickly, and is fitted with tamperproof non-return valves eg 14, 15, on all orifices to prevent leakage or attempts at reusage. A preferred tamperproof valve, Fig. 2, mates with an oil connection pipe such as 19 so that the pipe once unconnected, it cannot be reconnected due to a lock out device. As shown, before use of the valve, a spring-urged ball 9 is retained in a retracted position by a sleeve 15. When the pipe 19 is inserted in passageway 18 it opens a spring-loaded valve 12 and also causes crushing of a thin section 14 of the sleeve 15 so that the sleeve is contracted to allow the ball 9 to rest against the pipe 19. When the pipe is retracted after use, the ball is urged by spring 5 into an indent 16 where it is retained by spring loaded pins 7 entering recesses 10. The unit is preferably made totally of plastic, in any shape, for fitment to any part of the vehicle and connected by pipework to the engine. The used unit is returned to the supplier for overhaul to reuse, and oil recycled, or the total unit and contents to be recycled.
Patent GB-2308943-A (GB)
Title: Power saving for telephone system
Inventor: KIM KI-WOOK
IPC: H04M19/08
Filed: 1996-12-30
Abstract: A power management method for a simple electronic exchange system having a plurality of extension telephones is described. When the exchange receives a power saving mode request signal from a given extension telephone, it transmits a request for a password to the telephone extension. When a password is received, the exchange determines whether the password received corresponds with a previously-recorded password for that extension telephone. If so, an operation limit command is transmitted to the said given extension telephone, and any incoming calls for the corresponding extension number are cut off until the power saving mode is released.
Patent GB-963201-A (GB)
IPC: A24C5/47
Abstract: 963,201. Cigarette filter tip handling. K. KÍRBER. Aug. 3, 1960 [Oct. 7, 1959], No. 26875/60. Heading A2C. [Also in Division B8] Sextuple-length filter plugs 1, Fig. 1, delivered from a magazine to a grooved drum 4 are each sub-divided by knives 5 into three double-length plugs which are respectively transferred to narrow grooved drums 6a, 6b, 6c driven at the same peripheral speed but of sufficiently different diameter for the three plugs 1a, 1b, 1c to become so circumferentially spaced as to pass into successive flutes of a drum 8 on which they are aligned by side guides 17 for transference via drums 10, 12 to a drum 14 forming part of filter cigarette making machine. The drums 6a, 6b, 6c are mounted, each by three roller bearings 26, Fig. 3, on relatively eccentric support discs 22a clamped on a rod 20, and are driven by toothed portions 28a of a driving sleeve 29 which engage internal gears 27a. Reference is also made to former composite plug assemblies, either by additionally depositing plugs of another type on the drums 6a, 6b, 6c, or by duplicating the whole apparatus so as to supply single length plugs of another type which are deposited on the drum 14 on both sides of the existing double length plugs. Specifications 865,624 and 963,202 are referred to.
Patent GB-2316247-A (GB)
Title: An arrangement for supplying phase locked clock signals to semiconductor circuits
Inventor: UCHIDA TOSHIYA
IPC: G11C11/4076
Filed: 1997-01-31
Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit has first and second delay controllers (21, 22) for receiving an input signal (CLK), a plurality of object circuits ( 50 to 57) for receiving an internal signal from the first delay circuit (21) through a real line (41), and a phase comparator (3). The phase comparator receives the input signal and a dummy internal signal from the second delay controller (22) through a dummy line (42), and compares the phases of the received signals with each other. Further, the phase comparator controls delays in the first and second delay controllers according to the comparison result. The length of the real line (41) from the first delay controller (21) to any one of the object circuits (50 to 57) is substantially identical, and a load value of the dummy line (42) is substantially equal to that of the real line (41) between the first delay controller (21) and any one of the object circuits (5; 50 to 57). Therefore, each of the object circuits or pads receives a phase-locked control signal without regard to the physical position thereof.
Patent GB-2311755-A (GB)
Title: A sleeve for printing cylinders
Inventor: ODER GUENTER
IPC: B41F13/08
Filed: 1997-04-01
Abstract: The present invention describes a sleeve for printing presses, wherein a tubular shell provided with collar-shaped connecting parts and consisting of aluminium is shrunk onto a two-layer inner tube. In this way, it is possible to dispense with the use of hard foam, by means of which the connection of the tubular shell with the inner two-layer tube is produced. This is because it has been shown in practice that hard foam is susceptible to chemical, thermal and mechanical stresses.
Patent GB-2324935-A (GB)
Title: Prevention of unauthorised data download
Inventor: ROBINSON WILLIAM NEIL
IPC: G06F21/10
Filed: 1997-05-01
Abstract: A system for the prevention of unauthorised data download comprises a client computer (101) capable of downloading data from a source computer (not shown), the client computer (101) having a store (212) for receiving a validation code other than from the source computer and being provided with an authorisation module (200) arranged to use the validating code so as to verify whether the client computer (101) is authorised to download the data from the source computer. The source computer enables the authorisation module (200) by transmitting or activating validating means, such as a Software Authorisation Agent where the data is software. The data can be text, images, music or other audio, and the infrastructure can be a cellular telephone (GSM), or UMTS, or infra red system.
Patent GB-2324971-A (GB)
Title: Board game apparatus
Inventor: LINDFIELD MANFRED PETER
IPC: A63F3/04
Filed: 1997-05-08
Abstract: Board game apparatus comprising a board having displayed on its surface a continuous calendar track divided into segments each representing one or more days of the week and each (or at least some) marked with legends which require players to consult one of several packs of cards printed with business related questions. Correct answers to these questions are rewarded by an allocation of customers and/or distributors to the player currently answering the questions raised. Means are provided for displaying the numbers of customers and/or distributors allocated to each player. A random number generator determines the progress made by the players around the calendar track.
Patent GB-2315633-A (GB)
Title: Acoustic resistance cloth filling channel between microphone and off-set sound port improves wind screening
Inventor: TOKI NOZOMI
IPC: H04M1/03
Filed: 1997-07-03
Abstract: A transmitter structure which is resistant to wind noise and allows a reduction in size has a sound hole 2 formed in a case 5 at a position offset with respect to a microphone 1 and has acoustic resistance cloth 4 filling a slit 6 extending from the sound hole 2 to the microphone 1. Differential microphones such as pressure gradient microphones may have a slit and sound port provided on either side of the microphone (figure 2).
Patent GB-2314599-A (GB)
Title: Post height adjustment for dental equipment
Inventor: AUSTIN JR GEORGE K
IPC: F16B7/04
Filed: 1996-04-05
Abstract: An expandable stop ring (30) slides over the end of a top post (10) until it engages a selected one of a number of spaced apart grooves (12) in the end of a top post. The end of the top post is inserted into a bottom tubular post (20) until the stop ring fits inside a keeper (40) that is mounted to the upper end of the bottom post. The keeper prevents expansion of the stop ring, hence the stop ring and keeper combination support the top post and any equipment carried thereon. The top post height adjustment is made by lifting the top post to remove the stop ring from the keeper (40), thereby permitting sliding movement of the stop ring (30) to another selected groove on the top post.
Patent GB-2318138-A (GB)
Title: Dual functioning seal for rock bits
Inventor: CAWTHORNE CHRIS E
IPC: F16J15/32
Filed: 1997-10-06
Abstract: Dual functioning seals for use in forming a lubricant seal in a rotary rock bit comprise an annular elastomeric seal body 60 having a dynamic seal surface 54 and a static seal surface 56. The seal body 60 has an asymmetric axial cross-sectional geometry the dynamic seal surface 54 having a greater radius of curvature than the static seal surface 56. The dynamic and static seal surfaces may be formed from different elastomeric materials, with the dynamic seal surface 54 being formed from an elastomeric material that is harder and more wear resistant than that of the static seal surface 56. Differing cross sections are disclosed (see figs 5-7).