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Patent GB-2215875-A (GB)
Title: Data processing system
Inventor: BALDWIN DAVID ROBERT
IPC: G06F9/38
Filed: 1988-03-23
Abstract: A numeric processing subsystem, where at least three processors concurretly run separate processes. One of these processors is a data transfer processor, 180, which operates concurrently with a control processor, 110, for controlling the external interface, 150-180, and a third processor, 130, executes floating point operations. The floating point processor operates concurrently with and asynchronously of the control processor and the data transfer processor, and executes instructions from a control store via a high speed cache memory 140 linked to the floating point processor by a high-bandwidth bus, 144. The control processor contains microcode instructions of which some fields are stored in a first control store integrated with the arithmetic logic and other fields are stored in a second control store which controls access to the FP processor. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2217013-A (GB)
Title: An ultrasonic proximity device for the control of light emission from a display unit
Inventor: HIPWELL WILLIAM ERNEST HENRY
IPC: G01S15/04
Filed: 1988-04-07
Abstract: A light emitting display such as a cathode ray tube is controlled by sensing an object e.g. an observers head, at a predetermined position relative to the display. The object is sensed using an ultrasonic transmitter and detector (10, 11), the output of the detector being arranged to control the display such that it is active only when the presence of the object is sensed. The apparatus can be used in photographic darkrooms where there is a need to minimise light emission. The display is made visible only when an observer's head is in a viewing position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2218941-A (GB)
Title: Continuous stationery forms and envelopes
Inventor: PLIMMER JEREMY JOHN
IPC: B42D5/02
Filed: 1988-05-26
Abstract: A continuous stationery assembly consisting of forms and return envelopes therefor. The assembly comprises a back sheet (10) and a narrower-front sheet (11). Each form with its accompanying envelope is connected to the next by tranverse perforations (12) and the form can be separated from its envelope along a transverse perforation line (13). The envelope is formed by a U-shaped adhesive area (14, 15, 16) and a flap defined by a longitudinal perforation line (17). Adhesive (18) is provided on the flap. The forms are preferably narrower than the envelopes for easy insertion of the former into the latter. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2208626-A (GB)
Title: Washing offset printing press units
Inventor: D HEUREUSE WALTER
IPC: B41F7/26
Filed: 1988-06-22
Abstract: For ease of washing the inking and damping unit of an offset printing press the damping rollers 34 are drivable by means of a shaft 6 supporting the dosing roller 3, which shaft 6 is in turn in torque-transmitting association with drive means 21 for the damping unit, and at each end face of the dosing roller there is arranged a respective bearing plate 7 which is pivotal on a respective journal of the shaft 6, between a position for continuing to print, an intermediate position and a washing position, whilst the applicator roller 4 is mounted in the bearing plates 7 so as to be biased away from the dosing roller 3, when cleaning is required rollers 3 and 4 are parted to allow damping fluid in reservoir 33 to drain into trough 32, and then brought together again; the bearing plate assembly 7 is pivoted until rollers 4 and 27 are in contact: washing liquid is sprinkled onto the damping rollers; tank 31 catches the products of the washing process. 
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Patent GB-2223935-A (GB)
Title: A holder
Inventor: SEMENENKO VALENTINA
IPC: F16M13/00
Filed: 1988-10-17
Abstract: A collapsible holder comprising a plurality of panels 2 which are joined together to provide an entry 4 and a closed end 5, there being crease lines 6, 7 whereby the cross-sectional shape of the holder 1 can be altered from a collapsed mode as shown to an in use mode corresponding with the outer configuration of an article, e.g. a drink container, to be supported in the holder 1. The panels 2 are made of flexible plastic sheet material which are substantially parallel in the collapsed mode and in which the crease-lines 6 and 7 are defined by linear arrays of spaced-apart press-stud releasable fastening means 8 and 9 one of which is integral with a suspension means in the form of a hook-like member 10. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2220908-A (GB)
Title: Winching apparatus
Inventor: AUTY DAVID
IPC: B66D1/28
Filed: 1989-06-16
Abstract: A winching apparatus which comprises a steel chassis 10 supporting an i.c. power unit 30 and a winching drum and, connected between the winching drum and power unit, a variable speed transmission which is preferably in the form of an infinitely variable hydrostatic transmission 40. The apparatus may be self propelled on wheels. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2220579-A (GB)
Title: Board game
Inventor: JEAVONS JOHN MICHAEL
IPC: A63F3/00
Filed: 1989-06-27
Abstract: Game apparatus comprises a board 10 providing a square grid of playing spaces 12 each bearing a number from 1 to 6. Playing pieces 14 of various shapes are formed to be able to cover a group of playing spaces. One or more dice are selected by a player in turn and are rolled to show the numbers which must be covered on the board by an appropriately placed and shaped playing piece in order for a player to score. The score is the number of playing spaces 12 which can be covered by one of the shapes 14. The game could be played on a computer screen. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2225519-A (GB)
Title: Teletext data encoding/decoding method
Inventor: YAMADA OSAMU
IPC: H04N7/035
Filed: 1989-11-09
Abstract: A TELETEXT clock signal in simple frequency relation with the color subcarrier fsc of the PAL color television system is generated from the subcarrier, and the block length of a signal section of each packet is set to 272 bits, thereby making applicable the (272, 190) code which is the same error-correcting code as in the Japanese system (Fig 1). At receiving apparatus (Fig 7), a color subcarrier signal is extracted from the PAL color television signal, and is used to generate a signal of the same frequency and the same phase as the clock run-in signal such as for TELETEXT broadcasting by an APC circuit or the like. With this signal as a clock signal, the scanning line number is counted from the first field of the television signal and at the same time, if TELETEXT signals or the like are multiplexed, the framing code is detected thereby to reproduce the framing code timing by front and back protection.
Patent GB-2229553-A (GB)
Title: Resettable valve apparatus
Inventor: PENITOT GERARD
IPC: F16K17/164
Filed: 1990-02-12
Abstract: A resettable valve apparatus comprises, in a body (10):… - an internal chamber (11) connected by a first duct (12) to a first orifice for the connection thereof to a pneumatic feed, by a second duct (14) to at least one output member (15, 61) which serves to trigger a safety operation, and by a third duct (16) to an exhaust orifice (17), the first duct opening into the chamber (11) through a first seat (18), and the third duct (16) opening into the chamber (11) through a second seat (19) of larger diameter than the first seat (18);… - a valve member (20) which is movable between the first and second seats (18, 19);… - a resilient return member (22) disposed between the body (10) and the valve member (20) and urging the valve member (20) towards the first seat (18) under a force of given intensity; and… - a voluntary re-setting member (27) comprising a thrust member (28) disposed in opposite relationship to the resilient return member (22) with respect to the valve member (20) between the latter and an actuating member which is accessible from the exterior of the body (10), the thrust member (28) being displaceable in the body (10) with a movement of an amplitude which is at least equal to the displacement of the valve member (20) when it moves from one seat to the other. …<IMAGE>…
Patent GB-2228927-A (GB)
Title: Dispensing mechanism for stacked articles in vending machine
Inventor: VIDONDO FELIX GUINDULAIN
IPC: G07F11/22
Filed: 1990-03-09
Abstract: Dispensing mechanism for coin-operated automatic vending machines, e.g. cigarette machines, consisting of a motor 3 which transmits movement to a pinion 9 which locks in a toothed wheel 8 to which a cam connects rotatably and eccentrically which by its other end connects to an L-shaped plate 4 where the packs 10 rest, by means of a pair of lugs. The rotational axis of the L-shaped plate 4 serves as the rotational axis of a strip 12, assisted by a spring, retaining the second pack (shown) while the first one (not shown) is being expelled. The horizontal arm of the plate 4, where the packs rest, has a profile for placement of a switch arm 14 and of a pair of grooves for housing the respective pins 13, which advance to eject the pack; switch 14 records that the pack has in fact fallen off plate 4. …<IMAGE>…
Patent GB-2237765-A (GB)
Title: A method of explosion welding
Inventor: PERSSON PER INGEMAR
IPC: B23K20/08
Filed: 1990-11-07
Abstract: The explosive charge (1) is placed on that surface of the base material (3) which is remote from the ultimate bonded surface and the plating material (2) is placed at a distance from the base material (3) and in contact with a pressure medium (6, 7) which reflects and returns an introduced pressure wave. A pressure transmitting element (5) is placed in abutment with both the base material and the plating material along a short length. The explosive charge (1) is initiated at said pressure transmitting element (5), such that upon detonation the percussion wave will be transmitted through the base material (3) and initially through that part of the plating material (2) which lies in contact with the base material through the intermediary of the pressure transmitting element (5), and thereafter through that part of the plating material (2) which lies in contact with the base material (3) through bonding, the percussion wave being further propagated into the pressure medium (6. 7) where the wave is reflected and returned to the plating material which is therewith thrown against the base material. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2240409-A (GB)
Title: Automatic adjustment of tension in material drawn off a roll.
Inventor: BURDON JOHN
IPC: B65H23/04
Filed: 1990-11-14
Abstract: A roll (12) of material (11) is placed on a spindle (14) mounted for rotation in a housing (22), the material is drawn off the roll and thus turns the spindle. (The spindle may be motor driven). The housing (22) is able to accommodate an angular displacement to provide an indication of the tension in the material. A speed controller (38) is provided to apply the necessary change in speed to the spindle rotation, the amount of change being controlled by the amount of angular displacement. Both mechanical and electrical control arrangements are disclosed, one of which applies a brake force on tension below the optimum and the other of which releases a brake force for tension higher than the optimum.
Patent GB-2250897-A (GB)
Title: Error recovery in data communication systems.
Inventor: SHAH VINAY VELJI
IPC: H04L1/18
Filed: 1990-12-04
Abstract: Described is a method of error recovery in a data communication system of the kind comprising two nodes connected by a serial link and wherein data is transmitted between the nodes in the form of packets of a predefined format. Each node receives data over an inbound line and transmits data over an outbound line. When an error is detected, both notes enter a link check state, invoke a Link Error Recovery Procedure (ERP) and exchange status by means of Link Resets. Error recovery is performed separately for each line. Each node is responsible for recovering packets that were lost on its outbound line. In normal operation of the link, the transmitter does not reuse a packet buffer until it has received a response from the connected node indicating that the packet was correctly received. Therefore, when an error occurs, the affected packets are still available for retransmission.
Patent GB-2246052-A (GB)
Title: Modular telephone answering machine
Inventor: CHU CHI WAI
IPC: H04M1/65
Filed: 1991-02-12
Abstract: A telephone answering machine (10) for receiving and recording calls received over telephone lines includes one of a plurality of interchangeable base units (12) having different functions and features, one of a plurality of interchangeable user-interface units (18) also having different functions and features, and a system (20) for communicating between the units. Each base unit includes a telephone line interface circuit, a player/recorder and a first controller, responsive to commands for operating the base unit devices. Each installed user-interface unit is remote from an associated installed base unit and includes user-operable key means (36) for inputting command signals related to the recording and playing back of messages. It also includes a speaker (52), a microphone (58), a display (38) for visually displaying information, and a second controller (28) for controlling operation of the keys, speaker, and display. The communication system uses a standard interface (19) for coupling any base unit to any user-interface unit.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2250532-A (GB)
Title: Draught balanced door system
Inventor: JESSEL RICHARD VICTOR
IPC: E02B7/46
Filed: 1991-03-20
Abstract: A door system (11, 12, 21, 22), in a frame (10, 20), that uses any wind pressure to keep the door shut, insted of blowing it open. This is achieved by-when at its limit of travel in the shut position-presenting a greater effective surface area on (21) than on (22). The other side of the door system has the same properties.
Patent GB-2242841-A (GB)
Title: Catalytic converter
Inventor: FERRARIS FLAVIO
IPC: F01N3/28
Filed: 1991-04-11
Abstract: A catalytic converter for vehicles is provided with an outer casing (2) of parallelepiped form housing a stack structure (22) constituted by a plurality of smooth metal sheets (25) and corrugated metal sheets (26) alternately superimposed and covered with substances having catalysing properties. Two portions of heat expandable ceramic material (30) are interposed between opposite walls (8) of the casing (2) and the end sheets (27) of the stack structure (22) so as to press on the stack structure (22) itself thereby preventing relative sliding of the various sheets (25, 26) with respect to one another. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2250079-A (GB)
Title: A piggy back pipe line saddle
Inventor: HAROLD MICHAEL WYN
IPC: F16L3/22
Filed: 1991-11-21
Abstract: A piggy back pipeline arrangement in which a saddle (4, 24) is interposed between two pipelines (2, 22) which are then clamped together: the saddle has a bushing means (12, 32). The bushing means is securable to the saddle and at least partly encircles a smaller (3, 23) of the two pipelines. After fitting the bushing means is closed round the smaller pipeline and when the pipelines are strapped together the arrangement relieves stress and helps to prevent the displacement of the strapping. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2250253-A (GB)
Title: Mooring arrangement for production loading system
Inventor: CHRISTIANSEN POUL-ERIC
IPC: B63B22/02
Filed: 1991-11-22
Abstract: In an offshore production scheme for exploiting subsea oil reservoirs, a shuttle tanker mooring system comprising a CALM buoy 11 (of a kind known per se) and a hawser 20 connected successively along its length to a float 27, a flexible production hose 21 and an anchor weight 35; in which mooring system, when the tanker is not riding to the CALM buoy, the float is pulled down beneath the wave effected zone by the anchor weight and so holds a hose connector housing between the wave effected zone and the seabed; and when the tanker is riding to the CALM buoy, the float is lifted out of the water by a winch on the tanker and the anchor is lifted off the seabed; the arrangement being such that the flexible production hose connector housing is free to move over the seabed as the tanker drifts around the CALM buoy, and is held in a catenary shape below the water surface and above the seabed when the tanker is away from the CALM buoy. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2264991-A (GB)
Title: Tensioning devices for elongate, flexible connectors
Inventor: SLATTERY WILLIAM
IPC: E06B5/02
Filed: 1992-02-18
Abstract: A tensioning device for tensioning an elongate, flexible connector comprises means 3 to receive a portion of a connector 4, rotational means 1 to tension the connector and means (7, Fig 3) to lock the connector in a tensioned condition. In a second device (Fig. 4 and 5) the connector is received in and tensioned by an apertured bolt (19) and locked in tension by a pin (18) passing through holes (17, 21) in the support (9) for bolt (19) and in a plate (20) welded to the head of bolt (19). In a third device (Fig 6) the connector (4) is clamped in a hollow screw (23), tensioned by a nut (24) acting on screw (23) and clamped by a screw (7). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2265671-A (GB)
Title: Bladed rotor for a gas turbine engine
Inventor: LAU KWOK YAN
IPC: F01D5/30
Filed: 1992-03-24
Abstract: A gas turbine engine bladed rotor 20 comprises a rim 23 provided with an annular blade root 25 retention groove 24. Aerofoil blades 22 are mounted in the groove 24. Each blade 22 is provided with a platform 26 which cooperates with flanges 29, 30 which extend radially outwardly of the disc rim 23 to define an enclosed chamber 31. The chamber 31 provides thermal shielding of the disc rim 23 from the gas path over the aerofoil blades 22. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2254939-A (GB)
Title: Simulation of a lambda value for engine catalytic converter.
Inventor: SCHNEIDER ERICH
IPC: G01M15/04
Filed: 1992-04-16
Abstract: Simulation of the temporal behaviour of the lambda value at the outlet of a catalytic converter 11 in the exhaust system of an internal combustion engine 10 comprises measuring the air mass flow (QS_L_AS) inducted by the engine, determining the oxygen flow (QS_O2_AS) inducted by the engine as the product of the measured air mass flow and a factor indicating the mass of oxygen in the air, determining the deviation ( DELTA  lambda  of the lambda value upstream of the converter from the lambda value 1, and determine the oxygen flow (QS_O2_IN) into the converter as the product of the determined induction air oxygen flow and determined lambda deviation. The oxygen storage volume of the converter is then defined as the oxygen quantity which the converter can take up in the case of a continuous additive oxygen flow starting out from the oxygen-free state up to an overflow threshold at which the gas departing the converter has an oxygen concentration above a preset value. A simulated downstream lambda value is then set to "1" for as long as the converter is disposed in a filling state below the overflow threshold or an emptying state above a depletion threshold corresponding to a preset lower oxygen concentration at the converter outlet, and is set to the upstream lambda value when either of the thresholds is crossed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2255652-A (GB)
Title: Fibre-optic connector with half-casings forming annular cavity
Inventor: MARCHESI FRANCO
IPC: G02B6/44
Filed: 1992-04-21
Abstract: Two halfcasings 11, 12 which can be joined together contain means 14-16 for connection to a multi-fibre fibre-optic unit 13 and means 19 for connection to a plurality of single-fibre fibre-optic units. the half-casings being shaped to form an annular cavity 18 arranged to contain several optical fibres 17, the cavity having a width greater than the thickness determined by the several separate optical fibres within the device, the optical fibres which connect together the means 14-16 for connection to a multi-fibre fibre-optic unit 13 and the means 19 for connection to a plurality of single-fibre fibre-optic units having a length greater than the length of the minimum development of the annular cavity 18. The cavity 18 may contain a multiple optical miniconnector (22, Fig. 3). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2266759-A (GB)
Title: Computer mouse or trackball carrying advertising or decoration.
Inventor: CHENG KUO-SHU
IPC: G06F3/0354
Filed: 1992-05-06
Abstract: The mouse or trackball has a body with a carrier area on which may be located printed card with a colorful advertisement or information of after-service. The card is retained by a transparent or translucent cover secured to the body above the carrier area. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2267893-A (GB)
Title: Boxes having removable access portions
Inventor: LEARY JOHN
IPC: B65D5/70
Filed: 1992-05-21
Abstract: A box has a face comprising a first panel 2 overlying a second panel 3, the first panel 2 having an aperture 29 defined therein and the second panel 3 having a cut-out defined by a score line 30. The score line 30 lies laterally outwardly of the aperture 29 and the cutout is removable for access to the contents of the box. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2268388-A (GB)
Title: Helmet
Inventor: MCFARLANE ROBERT JAMES
IPC: A42B3/10
Filed: 1992-07-11
Abstract: A helmet for securely mounting upon the head of a wearer an inner portion 1,7 which is first secured firmly to the wearers head, and a rigid outer portion (30, Figs. 5 and 6) which is then secured to anchor points 7 on the inner helmet portion. A layer of foam (36) may then be injected to fill the cavity between the wearer's head and a foam lining (35) on the interior of the outer portion. An oxygen 9 mask may be mounted as shown, or by a strap (21, Fig. 4) passing over an inflatable bladder (20) at the back of the neck of the wearer. The helmet is suitable for mounting optical equipment which has to be aligned with the eyes of the wearer.
Patent GB-2259842-A (GB)
Title: Hanging bag for growing plants
Inventor: ACTON DAVID
IPC: A01G9/02
Filed: 1992-08-10
Abstract: A bag for growing plants is tubular in shape and is adapted to be supported vertically when in use. The bag comprises an open ended tube 1 fabricated from polypropylene fibre knitted in a stockinette structure. Once filled with a growing substrate 3 the ends of the tube 1 are sealed by knotting. The stockinette bag can be readily ported 7 to facilitate both the implantation of a seed or the like and the growth of a plant. Because the bag is supported vertically it occupies only a fraction of the area of a similar sized conventional grow bag. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2262160-A (GB)
Title: Absorbance correction in atomic absorption spectroscopy
Inventor: L VOV BORIS V
IPC: G01N21/27
Filed: 1992-11-10
Abstract: To determine the amount of an analyte contained in a sample by atomic absorption spectroscopy, a maximum absorbance value is determined conventionally for a given analyte. The individual or peak height absorbance values of a sample containing an unknown amount of the analyte are processed as a function of the maximum absorbance value. The thus obtained corrected individual or peak height absorbance values are evaluated to yield a corrected absorbance value which is proportional to the amount of analyte present in the sample. This amount is determined using a calibration factor obtained from the analogously corrected absorbance value of a calibration sample containing a known amount of the analyte. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2272704-A (GB)
Title: Multicomponent liquid-crystalline mixture
Inventor: JUNGE MICHAEL
IPC: C07C69/773
Filed: 1992-11-18
Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline mixture consisting essentially of two or more compounds of the general formula I,   <IMAGE> in which R<1> is straight-chain alkyl having 3, 5 or 7 carbon atoms, one or more compounds of the general formula II,   <IMAGE> in which R<2> is straight-chain alkyl having 2 to 7 carbon atoms, three or more compounds of the general formula III,   <IMAGE> in which R<3> and R<4> are each independently alkyl or alkoxy with 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and two or more compounds of the general formula IV,   <IMAGE> in which R<5> and R<6> each independently have one of the meanings indicated for R<3> and m is 0 or 1; to a "multi(eg 4)-bottle-system" comprising said mixture; and to an electrooptical display device being based on the principle of the twisted nematic cell.