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Patent GB-2128592-A (GB)
Title: Sorting banknotes
Inventor: KING ANTHONY JOHN
IPC: G07D11/00
Filed: 1982-09-20
Abstract: Banknote bundles (1) are passed successively to a recording station (4) where the appearance of a numbered wrapper or of the first note in the bundle is recorded, for example by a video camera (5). Thereafter the notes from the bundle are sorted into fit and unfit paths and the recorded data is used to identify each unfit note with the bundle from which it came. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2129261-A (GB)
Title: Rod rest
Inventor: PERRIN DENNIS
IPC: A01K97/10
Filed: 1982-11-10
Abstract: Anglers rod rest head 1 comprises a body 2 adapted to be supported in use on an elongate support element 4. The body 2 has exterior side edge portions 2c and 2d between which a rod seat 5 is defined. Skirts 6 and 7 are provided each as a respective extension of one of said edges 2c and 2d. The skirts converge toward each other to a position beyond that at which the body 2 is supported on support element 4 and are adapted to engage against said support element. The skirts 6 and 7 prevent line becoming snagged behind the head 2. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2131940-A (GB)
Title: Shelves
Inventor: SAINSBURY JOHN
IPC: F24D19/06
Filed: 1982-12-08
Abstract: A shelf comprises a top surface member 12 and a front edge member 13 made of wood or composite wood material. The top surface member 12 has a rebate at its forward edge to engage with a lip on edge member 13 whereby the tops of these are co-planar. A reinforcing member 14 of aluminium is provided at the front edge of the shelf and is of such dimensions that an interference exists between it and the top and front edge members. The shelf further comprises means for mounting the shelf over a central heating radiator. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2119542-A (GB)
Title: Controlled clutch/brake unit
Inventor: SOMMER GORDON MAURICE
IPC: G05D3/00
Filed: 1983-03-22
Abstract: A positioning system for a member such as a rotary indexing table 12 driven by a motor via a clutch/brake unit includes means 132, 140, 144 to sense the position of the table, means 156, to compare this position with a target position (stored at 152) at which it is desired to halt the table, and means to adjust the position (stored at 158) at which the brake is operated to reduce the error signal resulting from the comparison. In use the system monitors the error signal and changes the braking position to compensate for drifts in temperature or other factors. Initial values of target position and braking position are entered manually during a tracking cycle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2123895-A (GB)
Title: Controller for controlling turbine inlet vanes for varying the inlet nozzle area to the turbine of a turbo-compressor
Inventor: OSBORN NORBERT LEWIS
IPC: F01D25/16
Filed: 1983-04-14
Abstract: The controller comprises a housing 264 defining a first cylinder 265 and a second cylinder 266 of smaller cross-sectional area than the first cylinder, a first piston 268 slidable within the first cylinder, a second piston 270 slidable within the second cylinder, a rod 86 attached to the second piston and slidable in one direction through the first piston, the rod being connected to the controllable vanes whereby the inlet nozzle area to the turbine is controlled by the axial movement of the rod, a - first compression spring 276 biasing the rod and first piston toward the second piston, - a second compression spring 278 positioned between the first and second pistons, the second spring having a greater spring force in compression than the first spring - first means 89 for supplying atmospheric pressure to the cylinder area between the first and second pistons to apply atmospheric pressure on confronting faces of the first and second pistons, and - second means 88A, B for supplying intake manifold pressure to the faces of the first and second pistons opposite the confronting faces of the pistons. The controller opens and closes the nozzle vanes in dependence on the intake manifold pressure in an engine. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2122672-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for placing elongate electrical insulators on the flanges or railway rails
Inventor: BADGER PETER
IPC: E01B29/26
Filed: 1983-06-07
Abstract: Beside railway rails there are upward projections (13) which locate the rails and receive parts of clips (20) which hold the rails down by pressing on elongate L-section insulators (4) laid on the flanges of the rails. The insulators each have two spaced apart projections (6) between which portions of the upward projections (13) lie. In apparatus for placing the insulators (4) in position, each insulator is fed (by means not shown) to be gripped by a resiliently biased jaw 19 of a holding means 17 which, in the embodiment shown, moves to and fro about a pivot 17A on a magazine 18 of rail clips 20. As the gripped insulator moves downwardly and forwardly to the position shown one of the projections (6) on the insulator (4) descends and catches on one side of one of the upward projections (13); the insulator cannot then follow the return swing of the holding means, this return swing thus causing the holding means to change the angular orientation of the insulator with respect to the holding means and so cause the jaw (19) of the holding means to open against said resilient bias to release the insulator so that it falls into its operative position on the flange of the rail. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2123822-A (GB)
Title: The preparation of indoles
Inventor: KUDOH AKIHIDE
IPC: C07B61/00
Filed: 1983-06-29
Abstract: Indoles are prepared by subjecting an N-(???-hydroxy) alkylaniline, in the presence of a catalyst and at a superatmospheric pressure, to a gas-phase catalytic reaction, whereby the selectivity of the reaction and the service life of the catalyst are improved.
Patent GB-2124545-A (GB)
Title: Membrane fro regulating permeation of glucose therethrough
Inventor: KAWAI YOSHIO
IPC: C12Q1/00
Filed: 1983-07-27
Abstract: A membrane, suitable for regulating the permeation of glucose therethrough, comprises a hydrophobic membrane having 10 to 10,000 pores/cm2 on the surface of said membrane and the pores being from 10 to 100 micrometers in mean diameter. This membrane is incorporated in a glucose sensor of the enzyme-electrode type for use in determining the glucose in a specimen.
Patent GB-2126231-A (GB)
Title: Hydrocarbon solvent solutions of complexes of (a) n-butyllithium (b) sec-butyllithium and (c) isopropyllithium with ethyllithium
Inventor: MORRISON ROBERT C
IPC: C08F4/46
Filed: 1983-03-10
Abstract: Hydrocarbon, especially aliphatic and/or cyloaliphatic hydrocarbon, solvent solutions of complexes selected from the group of (a) n-butyllithium, (b) sec-butyllithium and (c) isopropyllithium, with ethyllithium, in which the ratio, on a mole basis, of the n-butyllithium to the ethyllithium is from about 1:9 to about 9:1; of the sec-butyllithium to the ethyllithium is from about 17:83 to about 95:5; of the isopropyllithium to the ethyllithium is from about 1:9 to about 9:1. The thermal stability of various of the complexes in said solutions thereof has been found to be outstanding. The hydrocarbon solvent solutions of said complexes, especially where said solvents are aliphatic or cycloaliphatic, have marked advantages over conventionally used hydrocarbon solvent solutions of said complexes as catalysts or initiators in plymerization reactions, telomerization reactions, metalation reactions, halogen-metal interchange reactions, and in the preparation of magnesium alkyls. Marked savings in cost are also achieved in the preparation of the complexes by reason of the materially lower cost of the ethyl halides in relation to the costs of the other alkyl halides used in the practice of the present invention.
Patent GB-2130096-A (GB)
Title: Unitary adhesive bandage
Inventor: LAURITZEN NELS JENS
IPC: A61F13/02
Filed: 1983-11-11
Abstract: Adhesive bandages comprising a pad area and adjacent adhesive-coated areas are prepared from a single sheet of heat-fusible bandage material, preferably a nonwoven batt material, by overlapping the center portion of the material in a Z-fold to form a triple thickness pad area, and heat calendaring the material adjacent the desired pad area to provide a surface suitable for coating with adhesive. The integrity of the pad is preserved by heat fusing the material along the folded edges of the pad.
Patent GB-2134632-A (GB)
Title: Target homing of a projectile and determining the ballistic trajectory thereof
Inventor: SUNDERMEYER DR PETER
IPC: F41G7/22
Filed: 1984-01-30
Abstract: For the target homing of a projectile 21 on to a target 28 and determination of its ballistic flight path so as to produce a more favourable target approach path 29 and to remove the need for error-prone firing-data inputs, the projectile is changed at time t7 from a ballistic firing flight path with linking flat flight path 25 into a more steeply extending end-phase flight path, the change being delayed relative to the target acquisition point in time (t5). To determine the point in time (t7) in relation to the approach to the target, a theoretical impact point in time z11 of the flat flight path 25, taking into account the ballistic firing flight path, is computed on board the projectile. For this the actual ballistic firing flight path is ascertained by measuring the muzzle velocity and the timespan between firing and apogee passage. By measuring the apogee, the build-up of a positional reference for the path control is made possible. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2136632-A (GB)
Title: A heat-sensitive capacitive element switch
Inventor: RICKSON COLIN DAVID
IPC: H01G7/04
Filed: 1984-03-15
Abstract: A heat-sensitive capacitive element switch (1) has, sandwiched between electrodes (2 and 4), dielectric material (5) in the form of a liquid crystal composition which undergoes a reversible, temperature-dependent phase transition between its isotropic state and its nematic or cholesteric state. The aluminium electrodes (2,4) are grooved, the molecules of the liquid crystal composition aligning with the grooves. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2155781-A (GB)
Title: Cushion
Inventor: LINDER JEANETTE
IPC: A47C7/40
Filed: 1984-03-21
Abstract: A cushion for supporting the back of the user is generally of convex form but has a valley where the user's spine will be separating the convex form into two cheeks or hills on either side of the spine. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2161924-A (GB)
Title: Reflex pyrometer sighting
Inventor: WRIGLEY MARK
IPC: G01J5/08
Filed: 1984-06-30
Abstract: An infra-red pyrometer has an internal optical element, e.g. a mirror 3, which allows the pyrometer line of sight to be angled with respect to the principal optical (or mechanical) axis, without the need for an external mirror. Light focussed onto a field stop 2 is directed to a detector 6 by a fibre optic cable 5. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2144453-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for forming thin films in vacuum
Inventor: SASANUMA YASUTOMO
IPC: C23C14/50
Filed: 1984-08-03
Abstract: An apparatus for forming thin films in vacuum, in which a vapor generating source (6) and a workpiece (4) are disposed in a spaced relation within a vacuum vessel (5) and a vaporized substance (7) from the vapor generating source is deposited on the workpiece to form a thin film, comprising: a chain (11) stretched endlessly on at least a pair of sprockets (27, 28); a plurality of rollers (20) axially and rotatably supported by the chain; a support shaft (22) fastened each of the rollers for co-rotation therewith; a workpiece mount (3) fixedly secured to the support shaft for supporting the workpiece; and a guide rail (41, 42, 41', 42') fixedly secured in at least an arriving region of the vaporized substance in the vacuum vessel to rotate each of the rollers owing to contact therewith. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2163283-A (GB)
Title: Instructional toys
Inventor: JORGENSEN VETLE WESNAES
IPC: G09B1/10
Filed: 1984-08-09
Abstract: A combined play and teaching tool consisting of: 1. cube shaped blocks, each with centre holes on all six sides for assembly and a colour arrangement with three different colours: a given colour being repeated on opposite sides of the cube, and 2. a toy in the shape of a ship, an animal, doll house furniture, etc with cuts or voids for the blocks. Together with instruction sheets for two colour alphabets, the first based on a simple relationship of letters to colours and the second on a relationship between colours and selected sounds from the international Phonetic Alphabet, the children will through play learn letters, sounds and spelling.
Patent GB-2148750-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in decanting-type centrifuges
Inventor: WRIGHT JOHN
IPC: B04B1/20
Filed: 1984-10-23
Abstract: For removing carrier liquid from solids particles separated from a liquid slurry in a decanter-type centrifuge, a further liquid is introduced into the bowl which is both immiscible with and of higher specific gravity than the carrier liquid to establish at the periphery of the bowl a body (42) of this further liquid defining a transfer zone (46) disposed radially outwardly of the body (48) of carrier liquid, the centrifugally separated solids moving the zone (46) where carrier liquid adhering to the solids particles is displaced by the further liquid of higher specific gravity, the solids particles being scrolled through the transfer zone to the solids outlet of the bowl. For isolating the body of carrier liquid (48) from the frusto-conical portion (18) of the bowl, an annular disc (54) is mounted on the conveyor (20) with its outside periphery extending into the body of liquid (42) so that when the solids are scrolled from the transfer zone along the frusto-conical portion (18) to the solids discharge outlet, they are not recontaminated by carrier liquid. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-843272-A (GB)
Abstract: 843,272. Forcing liquids by gaseous pressure ; air compressors. HUDSON MANUFACTURING CO., H. D. May 27, 1957, No. 16805/57. Classes 8(1) and 102(2). [Also in Group XXIX] In a compression sprayer comprising a container 11, Fig. 1, in which liquid is pressurized by an air pump, the pump comprises a cylinder 14, a manually-actuated plunger- 19, Fig. 2, fitted with a spring-loaded relief valve 29, and a non-return check valve 36. The liquid discharge tube 41 is fitted at its top with a pressure regulator 42 (see Group XXIX), regulating the pressure of liquid passing to the spray nozzle 44 fitted with a manually-actuated control valve 45.
Patent GB-846947-A (GB)
Abstract: 846,947. Miner's cap lamps. HUNT, T. A. Oct. 30, 1958 [Oct. 30, 1957], No. 33890/57. Classes 75(2) and 75(4). A miner's cap lamp comprises a closed casing, one end part of which is opaque and contains the connection from an electric cable to a bulb holder within the casing, the casing having a transparent region on the underside adjacent the other end and extending to include at least the lower part of the other end of the casing, and one or more reflecting surfaces on the sides of the upper half of the casing so that light is directed downwards on to the ground in front of the wearer as well as being directed forwards. Fig. 2 shows a transparent envelope 15 having a pair of laminar metallic reflectors 18, which may be attached to the rear part of the casing by a ring in place of the transparent plate in a miner's lamp of standard form having main and auxiliary lamps mounted in front of a reflector. A gap may occur between the reflectors 18 at the top of the envelope through which light may illuminate near portions of the roof. The lamps may be brought forward in the envelope by means of adaptors. In a modification, the main reflector and the reflectors 18 may be replaced by a single reflector having apertures for the main and auxiliary lamp bulbs at the rear and in the upper surface respectively, the whole being enclosed in a transparent cover secured to the rear part of the casing.
Patent GB-2156085-A (GB)
Title: Testing dynamoelectric machines
Inventor: ANDERSSON EINAR
IPC: G01R31/34
Filed: 1985-01-22
Abstract: An apparatus for connecting a pulsating voltage across a winding upon such inspection of an electric machine, in particular a three-phase machine, as aims at detecting a stator and/or rotor winding fault, is provided with a current source (2) and an oscillator (1) connected to aid current source via a switch (3). An ammeter (6) is connected in one output (4) of the oscillator (1) which is adapted to supply a pulsating voltage of variable pulse width, said pulsating voltage being intended for connection across the said winding, and said pulse width being variable to provide a suitable deflection of the ammeter (6) when the pulsating voltage is connected across the winding. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2161790-A (GB)
Title: Nestable cartons
Inventor: BOOTH ROGER KEITH
IPC: B65D5/20
Filed: 1985-04-25
Abstract: A lidded carton is formed from a blank having container and lid, base panels (12;32) and respective side wall panels (14;34). Flat blanks are shaped into a condition in which the side wall panels are perpendicular to their respective base panels and the base panels are each inclined at an oblique angle to the direction of advancement (X) of the blank, in the opposite sense, so as to be nestable into a previously similarly formed and advanced carton. The lid and body portions are held together in their closed condition by means of tabs (26) entering into slots formed between flaps 40 and end wall 36. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2163216-A (GB)
Title: Gas mixing assembly
Inventor: COLLINGS ALAN JAMES
IPC: F04F5/16
Filed: 1985-08-14
Abstract: Gas mixing assembly in which a pressurised gas is passed through an inspirator nozzle 4 in a vessel so as to inspirate further gas from upstream of the nozzle. The flow rate of the pressurised gas is small enough to prevent the onset of critical orifice conditions and great enough to prevent gas mixing solely by diffusion processes. At pressures close to ambient pressure, a flow regulator is used to provide pre-determined gas flows upstream of the inspirator nozzle. The assembly may be used for various purposes including preparation of gas mixtures for analysis or calibration, administration of medicine by inhalation and generation of gas mixtures for burners. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2168658-A (GB)
Title: A vehicle mirror mounting system
Inventor: LANE PETER
IPC: G02B5/08
Filed: 1985-09-12
Abstract: A mirror mounting system for a vehicle (W) comprises a mirror base (2) and a mirror housing (3) with an intervening member (9). The mirror is capable of swinging about an axis (A). The mirror mount (9) is reversible and interposed between the mirror base and mirror housing and consists of a disc having differently-located projections (12a, 12b, 12c and 14a, 14b, 14c) on opposite faces thereof adapted to engage with respective grooves provided on bearing surfaces formed on circular mounts presented by the mirror housing (3) and the base (2) respectively according to the required positioning of the former. The reversible mount (9) permits mounting of the mirror housing (3) to the mirror base (2) and alignment of the mirror surface regardless of whether the mirry electrical connectors 60 making contact with integral elements 48 on the outer periphery of the disc 20. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2172782-A (GB)
Title: Plough
Inventor: HEIKKILA JYRKI PELLERVO
IPC: A01B15/14
Filed: 1986-03-18
Abstract: A plough comprises a frame (10) and several plough beams (11) pivoted to the frame, each plough beam being provided with at least one plough body for cultivating the ground. The frame is coupled by a drawbar (12) to a linkage (13) which can be connected to a towing vehicle. A means (18) for transmitting movement between the linkage (13) and the frame (10) is acted on partly by a first adjustment means (20) for parallel movement of the frame (10) at the same time as the plough bodies are moved in parallel to adjust the position of the first ridge and, partly by a second adjustment mechanism (22) to change the working width of the plough while maintaining the direction of the plough bodies. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2174452-A (GB)
Title: A locking device operating by mechanical and electrical means
Inventor: KELLER HANS GERD
IPC: G07C9/00
Filed: 1986-04-30
Abstract: The invention relates to a locking device, more particularly applicable to automobile doors, which operates using a mechanical and electronic system and having a lock housing (5), a rotable cylinder (2) therein with pin tumblers (3) which may be moved out of locking positions by means of a key (4), and an induction element (14) connected in an electrically conducting manner with an electronic device on the vehicle for the transmission of an electromagnetic field, the key (4) having an induction element (28) electrically connected with an electronic key circuitry (29) accommodated in the key for the transmission of an electromagnetic field. The key induction element (28) is located adjacent to the tip of the key (4) and the lock induction element (14) is located in a part of the locking device adjacent to the key tip after insertion thereof. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2175567-A (GB)
Title: Transfer device for loading and unloading vehicles
Inventor: THORNTON GEORGE
IPC: B65G67/20
Filed: 1986-05-21
Abstract: A load transfer device for loading or unloading an entire storage compartment, such as the interior of a freight hauling trailer, in one cycle includes a long vertically flexible load support and transfer member (3) that is as long and as wide as the storage compartment and which has a chisel-like leading edge (25) to slip under freight articles resting on a floor, the transfer member being powered by a motor (5) mounted on it at the side or rear end to move longitudinally in and out of the storage compartment. The drive from the motor is by pinions on a rotated shaft (103) which engage with a fixed chain. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2190750-A (GB)
Title: A pressure gauge for a sports ball
Inventor: PALMER WILLIAM THOMAS EDWARD
IPC: G01L7/16
Filed: 1986-05-22
Abstract: A pressure gauge (2) for a sports ball, which pressure gauge (2) is adapted to fit in a person's pocket and which pressure gauge (2) comprises an elongate body (4), a connection member (6) for connecting to a valve of the sports ball such that the connection member (6) causes the valve to become open, and a sliding member (8) which is provided with a calibrated pressure scale, the pressure gauge (2) being such that the sliding member (8) is forced out of the elongate body (4) by air in the sports ball to show on the calibrated pressure scale the air pressure in the sports ball when the connection member (6) is connected to the valve. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2177283-A (GB)
Title: Milk powder
Inventor: VERHEIJ JACOBUS GERARDUS PETRU
IPC: A23C1/04
Filed: 1986-06-25
Abstract: A milk powder obtained by spray drying and suitable as a starting material for the manufacture of milk chocolate, wherein the weight average particle size of the milk powder is less than 80  mu m and the porosity of less than 5 ml/100 g powder.
Patent GB-2191968-A (GB)
Title: Shelf structure and method of making same
Inventor: GOLBY JOHN BARRY
IPC: A47B96/02
Filed: 1986-06-28
Abstract: A shelf 10, particularly for use in supermarkets, and having high load bearing capacity, has a shelf body member 14 and stiffening members 22, 24 secured to the underside of the body member by stud rivets 34. In manufacture, the shelf body member is precoated on its upper load bearing surface with a wipe-clean plastics material. The stud rivets are subsequently electrically welded to the underside of the pro-coated body member under conditions such that no significant damage to the surface finish of the plastics material occurs. The stud rivets are received in apertures in the stiffening members and subsequently formed with smooth heads. <IMAGE>