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Patent GB-2319833-A (GB)
Title: Gas cooking appliance
Inventor: HOLLINGSWORTH PHIL
IPC: F24C3/08
Filed: 1996-11-29
Abstract: A gas cooking appliance comprises at least one oven/grill chamber having an open fronted cavity 1 closable by a door 2, an oven burner 5 disposed in a combustion chamber 4 located beneath the base 3 of the cavity 1, a grill burner 9 disposed in the top of the cavity 1 with a burner cover assembly 16 disposed over and spaced from the grill burner 9 and also spaced from the top 15 of the cavity 1. Products of combustion from the combustion chamber 4 are directed from a rear outlet 7 in the base 3 from the rear to the front of the cavity 1 to an outlet 17 disposed between the top 15 and the burner cover assembly 16 for passage to a flue exhaust outlet 18.
Patent GB-2311723-A (GB)
Title: Sanitary unit and fittings therefor
Inventor: JONES ROBERT KEITH
IPC: E03D5/10
Filed: 1997-03-26
Abstract: A sanitary unit comprises a bowl 31, a water inlet 33 from which water can be supplied in use to the bowl, a water outlet 48 through which water can be drained in use from the bowl, a valve operable to control the supply of water to the bowl and electrical control means for controlling operation of the valve, wherein the parts of the unit that will be exposed after installation are free of ligature points. Also disclosed are :  (i) A tap including a housing defining a water inlet, a water outlet and a passage between the inlet and the outlet, and also including a flow directing member adjustably mounted in the housing and interposed in the passage between the inlet and the outlet, the flow directing member being accessible at the outlet of the tap for adjusting the position of the flow directing member. (ii) A tap unit including a water outlet, inlet means for connection to a water supply, a valve operable to control the flow of water from the inlet means to the water outlet and electrical control means for controlling operation of the valve, the electrical control means including a touch actuator for actuating the valve when the actuator is touched. and (iii) An actuator unit for a water or soap fitting including a valve operable to control the flow of water or soap and a touch actuator for actuating the valve, wherein the touch actuator comprises a piezoelectric element.
Patent GB-2320485-A (GB)
Title: Tape application jig
Inventor: MAEDA TSUYOSHI
IPC: B05C17/035
Filed: 1997-04-04
Abstract: A jig for applying adhesive tape 11 to an elongate work surface 17 comprises a main body 22 with a handle 23, a pressing portion 16 for pressing the tape against the work surface, and engaging means for guiding the jig along the work surface. The engaging means includes a first contact element such as roller 32 attached to a sliding block 20 that is movably mounted in a holding block 13, and a second contact element such as rollers 18 mounted on the main body. The first and second contact elements may be biassed towards opposing sides of the work surface by compression springs 31. The pressing portion may be an elastically deformable roller 16 mounted on a stepped shaft (38, figs 4 and 6), which is connected to the sliding block. When the sliding block moves the first contact element into contact with the work surface, the stepped shaft also moves and forces the deformable roller into a pressing position.
Patent GB-2313593-A (GB)
Title: Fuel-escape prevention device
Inventor: SATO TADAYOSHI
IPC: F02M37/00
Filed: 1997-05-30
Abstract: A fuel-escape prevention device 10 for sealing in the top of a tank 30, which device 10 comprises a first housing component 11 having an evaporation passage 11b and a second housing component 12 fused with the first housing component 11 and containing a float valve member 16 capable of cutting off communication between the tank 30 and the evaporation passage 11b via engagement with a valve hole 12g in a partition 12h between the two housing components 11, 12. The second housing component 12 also includes an external circumferential shoulder 12a passable through a seal 31 upon installation in the tank 30. The float valve member 16 may comprise a disk 16d and a number of ribs 16a to guide it in the second housing component 12. Preferably, a pressure relief valve 20 is provided in the partition 12h. The first housing component 11 may have a lower end of greater diameter fused with a step of reduced diameter on the second housing component 12. Alternatively, the second housing component 12 may include an upper projecting portion of larger diameter fused with a lower part of the first housing component 11.
Patent GB-2327948-A (GB)
Title: Dish-washer detergent composition containing a high cloud point surfactant
Inventor: CRUICKSHANK GRAEME DUNCAN
IPC: C11D3/02
Filed: 1997-08-02
Abstract: There is provided an automatic dishwashing detergent composition comprising a high cloud point nonionic surfactant and an amount of water-soluble salt to provide conductivity in deionised at 25‹ of greater than 3 milli Siemens/cm.
Patent GB-2330349-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle Jack
Inventor: BROADSTOCK STEPHEN
IPC: B66F3/12
Filed: 1997-10-14
Abstract: The jack has a plastics nut (60) engaged with a lift screw (70). The nut includes a transverse portion (63) which serves as a spacer between channel sides (31,32,41,42) of an arm (30) and a support (40). A pin (50) with a flat face (51) extends through the sides of the support and the arm and a bore (62) of the transverse portion (63) and has its ends deformed to consolidate the structure. The bore (62) of the transverse portion is of complementary shape to the pin and the pin has a bore (52) receiving the screw (70). Avoids need for reinforcement of the plastic nut.
Patent GB-2318455-A (GB)
Title: Heat sinks for vacuum interrupters
Inventor: BENKE JAMES JEFFREY
IPC: H01H9/52
Filed: 1997-10-15
Abstract: Heat sinks 43 are placed on the contact stems 29,33 of a vacuum interrupter so as to extend radially outward therefrom between the vacuum 19 bottle and junctions 39, 35 with the terminal conductors 41, 37 to lower the temperature of these junctions. The heat sinks 43 are formed by a stack of thin laminations (45, Fig 3) having central openings with inwardly directed tabs (49) which bite into and secure the laminations (45) to the stems 29, 33. The laminations (45) have aligned slots (53) forming axial passages (57) for cooling air. The slots may be enclosed (Fig 6) to eliminate sharp peripheral edges to reduce the potential for flash over. In one embodiment, the slots are not formed by removing material but by bending it out of the plane of the lamination to maximize heat radiating surface area and to generate turbulent cooling air flow for increased cooling efficiency. An axially extending peripheral lip (61) can provide axial spacing between laminations.
Patent GB-2320943-A (GB)
Title: Powered latch with clutch
Inventor: CHEVALIER JOHN PHILLIP
IPC: E05B85/20
Filed: 1997-12-12
Abstract: A latch arrangement for releasably retaining a striker 10, comprising a latch bolt 11 shaped to retain the striker at a latching position, and to release the striker at an unlatching position of the latch bolt; a locking mechanism moveable 20 between a locking position, at which it retains the latch bolt at its latching position, and an unlocking position, at which it allows the latch bolt to move to its unlatching position; means for linking the locking mechanism to a latch-opening external manual control such as a door handle; drive means 70 coupled to the locking mechanism and/or the latch bolt for powered actuation thereof to latch or unlatch the locking mechanism and/or to drive the latch bolt to its latching position or to its unlatching position; a rotary clutch 498,1490 coupling the drive means to an electrical drive motor output 60A, and a clutch release mechanism 495 drivingly coupled to the said external manual control such that operation of the latch-opening external manual control isolates the latch bolt and locking mechanism from the drive means. Other details of latch operation, coupling arrangements and control linkages are disclosed particularly in motor vehicle central locking systems.
Patent GB-2320615-A (GB)
Title: A pressure sensitive adhesive sheet for dicing objects
Inventor: NOGUCHI HAYATO
IPC: H01L21/58
Filed: 1997-12-15
Abstract: A process for dicing an object 5 comprises ```attaching the object 5 to a pressure sensitive adhesive sheet 10 comprising at least one layer 2 of shrinkable film and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer 1; ```dicing the object into chips, and ```shrinking the shrinkable film to thereby reduce an area in which the chips are in contact with the pressure sensitive adhesive. In this process, chips of small thickness and large area can easily be picked up without the need to use a thrust needle in the chip pickup step. The shrinkable film consists of a plastics material and the pressure sensitive adhesive may be based on a rubber, acrylic, silicone or polyvinyl ether. The sheet 10 may be secured by an adhesive layer 3 to non-shrinkable film 4. The objects 5 may be semiconductor wafers, ceramic plates, lead frames, printed circuit boards or TAB tapes.
Patent GB-974458-A (GB)
IPC: E02F3/88
Abstract: 974,458. Ships. ELLICOTT MACHINE CORPORATION. May 1, 1963 [Oct. 17, 1962], No. 17189/63. Heading B7A. [Also in Division E1] The pumps and drives for a rotary excavating tool 37 associated with the intake 39 of the suction pipe 43 of a dredging structure are positioned within a watertight submersible chamber 10 positioned closely adjacent the tool and the pipe intake, the chamber being secured to a boom 13 extending up to a working platform above the surface of the water over the bottom being dredged. The working platform may be the deck of a floating hull 11 or a platform 66 mounted on vertically extendable spuds 67. The boom may be vertically swingable by suitable tackle up through a well space in the hull 11 for servicing, the hull being provided with pivoted servicing platforms 31 that can swing about the chamber 10. Alternately, the boom can be mounted for vertical or rotational adjustment in a support fixed or movably secured in the spud-supported platform.
Patent GB-2330288-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for reducing vlf electric field emitted from the front face of a CRT display.
Inventor: JEONG SEOK HWA
IPC: H04N3/185
Filed: 1998-04-03
Abstract: The apparatus includes a signal detection section 3, connected to the flyback transformer. An inversion-amplifying section 4 amplifies the anode voltage detected by the signal detection section. A waveform-shaping section 5 shapes the negative polarity pulse signal induced from the induction coil 8. A signal synthesizing section 6 combines the negative polarity pulse signal inputted from the waveform-shaping section 5 with an output signal of the inversion amplifying section 4. An output amplifying section 7 amplifies the combined pulse signal from the signal synthesizing section 6, and an open-loop antenna T1 mounted on CRT radiates the signal. The VLF electric field generated by the CRT is offset by the electric field radiated through the open-loop antenna.
Patent GB-2324866-A (GB)
Title: Device for multianalyte assays.
Inventor: FITZGERALD STEPHEN PETER
IPC: G01N33/68
Filed: 1998-04-20
Abstract: The device comprises a substrate with a plurality of separate reaction sites each bearing a ligand bonded to the substrate with the substrate surface between the sites being inert to the analytes. The substrate is typically of glass, ceramic, quartz or silicon and the substrate surface may first be treated with an organosilane and bifunctional crosslinking agent to enable covalent attachment of ligand to the silane. Analyte may be hormones, antibiotics, disease or allergy markers, drugs, viruses, enzymes, nucleotides or peptides and test sample may be blood, serum, plasma, urine or tissue.
Patent GB-2338223-A (GB)
Title: Surgical swab management system
Inventor: HENSON TREVOR BERNARD NIGEL
IPC: A61B19/00
Filed: 1998-06-11
Abstract: A surgical swab management system comprises at least one bag having a row 12 of pockets 10, each pocket holding a sterile surgical swab so that the swab is visible in the pocket, the bags being mountable on a frame. Preferably the pockets in each row are fabricated from translucent plastic, e.g. polythene, and are closeable by a laterally extending transverse strip 16 which is secured by a permanent adhesive. The system preferably includes a frame (22, Figure 2) comprising three staggered horizontal bars (36, Figure 2) to mount three bags, and a sterile drape may be provided between the frame and the bags. The bars of the frame may have locating means (36, Figure 2) for clips (38, Figure 5) which are provided for securing the drape to the frame. Each clip may also be provided with a hook (42, Figure 5) for cooperation with a slot 20 provided on a bag to facilitate the mounting of the bags. The system allows the swabs to be counted before and after an operation.
Patent GB-2338803-A (GB)
Title: Current reference with temperature compensation
Inventor: RUSZNYAK ANDREAS
IPC: G05F3/24
Filed: 1998-06-24
Abstract: A temperature compensation arrangement is provided for a current reference circuit. The current reference circuit has a voltage generator 10 coupled provide a voltage to a resistor 40, which generates a current in dependence upon the voltage. The arrangement includes a current source, arranged to be controlled by a control voltage from the voltage generator, and a diode arrangement coupled in series with the current source for deriving therefrom a control voltage. A compensating transistor 50 is coupled to receive the control voltage for providing a temperature compensating supplemental current which is combined with the reference current to produce a combined current. The diode arrangement 30 and the compensating transistor are arranged such that the combined current is substantially temperature independent.
Patent GB-2338620-A (GB)
Title: Passenger identification form
Inventor: SEKI KOUJI
IPC: G09F3/00
Filed: 1998-09-24
Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for producing an identification document for a passenger. The document has printed on it a portrait photograph of the passenger as well as alphanumeric information which identify or relate to the passenger. A video camera 3 photographs the passenger and inputs the image data to an A/D converter (11 of fig.3) which outputs the digitized data, via an image processor (13) and dither memory (14), to a CPU 4. The alphanumeric data are inputted, via device 6, to the CPU 4 which in turn outputs these data to a thermal transfer printer 5. The printer 5 prints both the passenger photograph image and the alphanumeric data together on the ID form (see fig.4) which may serve as a baggage tag, a flight ticket or a boarding pass.
Patent GB-2349751-A (GB)
Title: Conduit fittings for earth continuity
Inventor: CLARK STEPHEN
IPC: H01R4/64
Filed: 1999-01-16
Abstract: A conduit fitting comprising a coupler 1 for connecting and maintaining electrical continuity between plastics coated metal pipes 2 received in respective sockets 4,5 at opposite ends of the coupler 1. Each socket 4,5 has a plurality of internal formations 10,11,12 circumferentially spaced apart for locally reducing the internal diameter of the socket 4,5 to provide an interference fit for an end portion of the pipe 2,3 from which the plastics coating has been removed. An internal annular rib 6 separates the sockets 4,5 and provides an end stop to limit insertion of the pipes 2,3. Each socket 4,5 also has a locking blade 8 arranged to secure the pipes 2,3 by embedding in the plastics coating when the pipe 2,3 is inserted with a combination of pushing and twisting in one direction allowing removal of the pipe 2,3 by a combination of pushing and twisting in the reverse direction. The conduit fitting may also comprise a junction box.
Patent GB-2334060-A (GB)
Title: Safety apparatus for bridge parapet or like overhead structure
Inventor: GRUNDON SIMON
IPC: E01D19/10
Filed: 1999-02-05
Abstract: An attachment (10) for releasable securement to a parapet (12) of a bridge or like overhead structure includes an adjustable arm (40) terminating in an enclosure member (50) whereby, when the attachment is secured to the parapet by means of a clamping mechanism (20) the arm, which includes telescopically overlapping inner and outer sections (41, 42), may be adjusted to position the enclosure member at the site of fastenings (15) whereby the parapet is secured, to restrain such fastenings from falling from the parapet if they become loose during work carried out thereon. Preferably the arm (40) is pivotally mounted on the clamping mechanism (20) so as to be moveable between in inboard position during assembly with the parapet and an outboard position while in use.
Patent GB-2337017-A (GB)
Title: Wet clutch/brake for a mechanical press
Inventor: BURNS BRADLEY A
IPC: F16D67/04
Filed: 1999-03-02
Abstract: A mechanical press (10) having a wet or oil shear clutch/brake drive unit (36) is provided including elimination of undamped clearances. Lubrication oil utilized in the press flywheel bearing (78) is ported and communicated into the clutch brake unit for use therein, eliminating the use of two separate lubrication or oil transport systems. A hydrostatic oil bearing (90) on the brake/clutch actuator member (50) (actuation plate) eliminates the use or need of an anti-friction bearing between the actuator member and the brake and clutch members.
Patent GB-2347964-A (GB)
Title: Wall mounted foot rung
Inventor: TAKAHASHI EIZO
IPC: E06C9/04
Filed: 1999-03-18
Abstract: A foot rung (1) for fixing to a wall (16, fig 9) comprising a tread (2), side portions (3) either side of the tread, legs (4) to be fixed to the wall, hollow circular fixing members (10, fig 7) to be embedded in the wall, said tread, side portions and legs being formed of a core which is covered in synthetic resins, said legs being covered by one resin in such a way that they have a substantially circular cross-section about which a plurality of fins (8) are formed, said fixing members having a plurality of steps (13) on the inner walls thereof to retain said fins, the foot rung further comprising support pieces (9) protruding from the boundary between the side portions and the legs so as to contact the wall to support the foot rung when in use.
Patent GB-2336279-A (GB)
Title: Echo canceller and method for device having a decoder
Inventor: LI TOM HONG
IPC: H04M9/08
Filed: 1999-03-29
Abstract: An echo canceller (300) is used for digital communication devices where digital speech decoder (106) is employed. The echo canceller (300) receives linear prediction residuals and a linear prediction error at an output (303) of the speech decoder (106). An updating direction for the coefficients of an adaptive filter (110) is formed in two steps in a filter coefficient generating circuit (304). In the first step, a updating direction is formed in linear prediction residual domain from the output of a decoder (106). In the second step, the updating direction used in the coefficients adaptation is obtained by transforming the updating direction from residual domain to speech domain in the filter coefficient generating circuit (304).
Patent GB-2333336-A (GB)
Title: A disc brake for parking
Inventor: BUCKLEY JAMES A
IPC: F16D65/095
Filed: 1996-03-19
Abstract: A heavy duty disc brake for parking comprises a caliper 14 slidably mounted on a transmission housing (12, figure 5), brake pads 40, a lever-operated rotor 50, and a ball ramp assembly for moving the brake pads into engagement with brake disc 16 on rotation of the rotor. A spacer 76 maintains the balls 74 of the ball ramp assembly at 120 spacing, and the ball ramp assembly is sealed by a shaft seal 82 and by a seal 100 on plastic cap 56. The cap 56 and a backing plate 36 are prevented from rotating by lugs 57, 33 engaging in notches 35 in the caliper, and the brake pads 40 are prevented from rotating by a ledge 60 on the cap and stops 42 on the backing plate. The brake pads 40 comprise a fibreglass phenolic material 67 and a fibre backing 68.
Patent GB-2340456-A (GB)
Title: Baby buggy with storable adjustable seat position
Inventor: RIDDIFORD MARTIN PHILIP
IPC: B62B7/08
Filed: 1999-07-16
Abstract: A folding baby buggy has an adjustable seat and seat position setting means which can be set to store the chosen seat position. The buggy can be folded without the seat position setting being lost and then unfolded with the seat then returning to the set position. The setting means consist of a disc (50A) mounted for independent rotation on a hinge (33) between two bars (25A, 31) of the buggy, means for locking the position of the disc (50A) relative to one of the bars (25A) and means for limiting the rotation of the other bar (31) relative to the disc (50A).
Patent GB-2340294-A (GB)
Title: Method of managing defects in an optical disk
Inventor: NAKANE KAZUHIKO
IPC: G11B7/004
Filed: 1999-08-03
Abstract: When optical disk defects are managed by using non-defective areas in place of defective areas, different criteria are used for detecting the defects, depending on the type of data recorded on the disk. For example, to avoid interruptions of real-time recording, less strict criteria are used when audio or video data is recorded than when computer data is recorded. The criteria themselves may also be recorded on the disk.
Patent GB-2356250-A (GB)
Title: Determining the amount of pressure wave reflection in a person's arterial tree
Inventor: CHOWIENCZYK PHILIP JAN
IPC: A61B5/021
Filed: 1999-11-12
Abstract: Apparatus for determining the amount of pressure wave reflection in a person's arterial tree comprises a transmitter (<B>4 in fig. 1</B>) for transmitting red or infrared light through a part of the person's body, such as a finger or ear lobe, and a sensor (<B>8 in fig. 1</B>) for measuring the amount of light passing through the part of the person's body, the measurement providing a digital volume pulse waveform. The amount of pressure wave reflection is estimated by measuring the height (<B>IP</B> <SB>DVP</SB>) of an inflection point (<B>18</B>), this point being the point after the first peak (<B>16</B>) in the digital volume pulse waveform at which a first derivative of the waveform with respect to time is at a local maximum.
Patent GB-2356422-A (GB)
Title: Brick work profile clamp
Inventor: O'DONOGHUE KEVIN
IPC: B25B5/16
Filed: 1999-11-18
Abstract: A bricklayer's profile of timber or steel is clamped in place using a separate clamp (Fig 2) having a fixed end which fits into a perpend joint of the wall and an adjustable screw threaded end which bears against the profile as shown.
Patent GB-2357348-A (GB)
Title: Using an abstract messaging interface and associated parsers to access standard document object models
Inventor: IBBOTSON JOHN BRYAN
IPC: G06F40/143
Filed: 1999-12-18
Abstract: A data processing apparatus has: a memory unit 402; a system software unit 401 including a plurality of parsers 401A, 401B, for implementing a Document Object Mode (DOM) application programming interface, including a unit for receiving documents from an originating application 11, 21 and a unit for processing received documents using one of the parsers in order to convert each received document into an object model; and a system software unit for storing each object model into the memory unit; where the unit for processing sends a received document to a particular one of the plurality of parsers depending on the format of the received document. This allows the DOM to accept documents in formats other than XML/HTML, e.g in COBOL.
Patent GB-191111983-A (GB)
IPC: A41D25/02
Abstract: 11,983. Wackan, G. May 18. Necktie - retainers.-In a necktie - retainer comprising a stiffened flap hinged to the tie and having a button-hole for attachment to a collar stud having a hinged head, the buttonhole is provided with a metallic lining. A blank f, Fig. 4, having U-shaped cuts g forming two tongues h is doubled over the lower edge of the flaps b, Figs. 2 and 5. To complete the lining, the tongues h are bent from opposite sides through the button-hole c.