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Patent GB-2176511-A (GB)
Title: Woven fabric and method for making same
Inventor: THOMPSON DOUGLAS
IPC: D06M23/14
Filed: 1986-05-30
Abstract: A mouldable woven fabric having an inelastic extensibility of at least 15% may be produced from a heat shrunk or heat shrinkable yarn or from an undrawn or partially oriented yarn. A fabric system may comprise a mouldable fabric and a coordinating (e.g. apparently identical) fabric which is not mouldable. Such a fabric system may be used e.g. on motor vehicle interiors, the mouldable fabric being intended for door panels and the like. The inelastic extensibility is generated by heat shrinkage. The fabric is inelastically extensible under mechanical stress or heat. The yarn is a continuous filament core which is inelastically extensible; staple surface fibres are attached to the core. The yarn is air textured.
Patent GB-2197276-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in airships
Inventor: HILLSDON REGINALD HAROLD
IPC: B64B1/30
Filed: 1986-09-26
Abstract: Control apparatus 13 for an airship 10 comprising a rotor assembly 14 having a plurality of propellor blades 17 of variable pitch mounted on a rotatable hub 16 at an acute angle relative to the axis of rotation of the rotor assembly, a power source 15 for driving the rotor assembly and a mechanism for controlling the pitch of the blades, enabling the control apparatus to provide compensation for pitching and yawing motions of the airship as well as to propel the airship. Pitch control includes cyclic and collective elements. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2195753-A (GB)
Title: A combination of a belt buckle and a lighter
Inventor: DER-FU LIU
IPC: F23Q2/32
Filed: 1986-10-01
Abstract: In a combination of a belt buckle 2 and a lighter 3, the lighter is removably secured in a recess in the buckle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2182267-A (GB)
Title: Producing lines or bands on ceramic products
Inventor: VOIGTLANDER ULF
IPC: B44D3/22
Filed: 1986-10-22
Abstract: An apparatus for automatically producing lines or bands on hollow ceramic crockery, particularly cups, to provide for decorating the zone between the top of the handle and the foot of the cup, to produce non-continuous lines and bands by the underglazing process, includes a decorating device which consists of a guide rod (16) with spring (14) and a vertically adjustable bar (13), to which are affixed both brush mounts (12) and a spacer roller (11), these items being adjustable in position in a vertical direction. A ring (6) with a suction device (5) for a cup (2) is provided on a wrist (10) of a flexible industrial robot (9). The ring (6) also carrying a hinged mechanism (4) with a working cylinder (8) on which a pair of steel plate aprons (3) are mounted to act as shields for the handle. Wipers (38, Figure 3) and rinsing nozzles (37) are provided on the head of levers (35), actuated by cylinder (34), and function to clean the aprons (3). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2200149-A (GB)
Title: Integrated w.c. cistern-fume extractor
Inventor: RASHIDI DR KHODAYAR
IPC: E03D9/052
Filed: 1987-01-20
Abstract: A conventional cistern normally used for flushing toilets has an extractor fan 10 incorporated in such a manner as to utilize the water flushing pipe 7 that connects the cistern to the toilet basin by means of a Y-joint 9 in order to withdraw the fumes from human excrement deposited in said basin and expel the air to the outside of the room via the overflow-pipe 12, without interfering or impeding the operations of either pipes 7 or 12. A T-joint 14 with a long stem 15 so constructed that its opening end is submerged below the water level 16 at all times, ensures that the fumes are not released into the room, but allows any overflowing water to pass through the overflow-pipe 12 to the outside. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2200563-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for playing a bowling game
Inventor: GREEN CLIVE
IPC: A63F7/07
Filed: 1987-01-30
Abstract: An elongate board (1) for playing a bowling game is supported with its playing surface (2) at an angle to the horizontal. A peripheral trough (11) extends around the unbounded edges (13 and 14) and upper end edge (8) of the playing surface and a central partition (3) extending from the lower end (6) of the board for about three quarters of the length of the board divides the playing surface into right hand and left hand alleys (9 and 10 respectively). The board (1) is used to play a game in which balls are bowled up the right hand alley (9) and around the end (20) of the partition (3) so that they roll back down the left hand alley (10) into compartments (17) defined by smaller partitions (16) and a barrier (15) at the lower end of the left hand alley (10). Any balls which are misdirected or bowled with too much force roll of the playing surface (2) into the peripheral trough (11). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2204591-A (GB)
Title: Method of preparing an algae culture and a culture medium
Inventor: MCLEAN DR ROGER OWEN
IPC: C12N1/12
Filed: 1988-03-28
Abstract: Suspension culture of seaweed especially the genus Laminaria is prepared by surface sterilizing seaweed stipe of at least 10cm long, washing, removing the stipe surface; and then inoculating agar based culture medium with segments of the sterilized stipe. After incubation to induce a callus growth, cells therefrom (preferably gametocytes) are introduced into a liquid culture media and incubated thereby providing a suspension culture. The culture medium comprise standard inorganic salts, optional vitamins, and is characterized by the inclusion of phytohormones and the use of filter-sterilized seaweed.
Patent GB-2205972-A (GB)
Title: Filled optical fibre cable manufacture
Inventor: SPEDDING STEPHEN THOMAS
IPC: G02B6/44
Filed: 1988-06-17
Abstract: In a sheathed optical cable having a bore 3 filled with a greasy water-impermeable medium 8 in which a resiliently set undulating optical fibre ribbon 1 is completely embedded, the optical fibre ribbon is caused to travel through an elongate die in which the amplitude of the undulations of the ribbon is reduced and the medium 8 is continuously fed around it. An advancing, optionally laminated, tape 4 is transversely folded around the advancing extrudate to form a closed tube 2 is filled throughout its length with the medium 8 in which the ribbon 1 is embedded, and a plastics sheath 7 is extruded around the tape-covered extrudate. Preferably, the medium 8 is introduced into the elongate die through an inlet port intermediate of the ends of the die and opening into a helical groove in the wall bounding the bore of the die. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2219859-A (GB)
Title: Fabric length measuring device
Inventor: HALL JOHN
IPC: D06H1/00
Filed: 1988-06-18
Abstract: In the retailing of household textiles such as curtaining, the invention provides an upright measuring frame having a material supply mounting means 18 to one side and vertically spaced measuring indicia to the other side and a horizontal sliding or rolling surface 24 at the upper edge to facilitate the transfer of material from the supply side to the measuring side. The fabric being measured can accumulate at shelf 16. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2207533-A (GB)
Title: Audio alarm outputting device for outboard engine
Inventor: UMEHARA KAZUHIRO
IPC: B21C3/16
Filed: 1988-07-18
Abstract: The audio alarm outputting device includes a plurality of sensors 136-139 for detecting abnormalities, such as in the cooling water flow, and a speech outputting circuit 200 for receiving output signals from the plurality of sensors and outputting abnormal conditions of the signals in a vocalized form. A variable voice level setting circuit cooperable with the speech outputting circuit automatically increases in steps the output level of the speech outputting circuit as the engine speed increases. 
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Patent GB-2223874-A (GB)
Title: Panel frame
Inventor: HANCOCK JOHN PHILIP
IPC: A47G1/06
Filed: 1988-10-05
Abstract: A panel frame member comprises a base 2 and a cover 3 each having interconnectable hinge parts 9, 18 which permit the base to be removed from the cover and latching parts 10, 22 between the base and the cover extending generally concentrically of the hinge parts, the relative dimensions of the base and the cover being such that some distortion of the material of one or both is necessary to engage both the hinge parts and the latching means and the latter permitting the cover to be held firmly relative to the base in both a closed and an open position. Three or four such panel frame members may be secured by screws 15 to a backing 14 to hold a poster. The members may be made of aluminium with the latching parts 10, 22 being of varying radius and provided with cooperating teeth 12, 23. A special tool may be required for the separation. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2233680-A (GB)
Title: Silencing system for a ball cock valve
Inventor: ROBINSON DOMINIC JAMES
IPC: F16K47/02
Filed: 1989-07-01
Abstract: A mains fed water storage tank incorporating a ball cock valve is provided with a silencing system. The system includes a hollow dip tube 22 extending from the discharge spout 14 of the valve 2 to below the water level in the tank. The dip tube 22 has at its upper end a series of openings 26 to prevent back syphoning of water up the tube 22. A chamber member 20 surrounds the section of the tube 22 with the openings, to contain any water emerging from the openings. The chamber member 20 directs such water as is collected down along the outside of the tube 22 for silent entry into the water. The upper end of the chamber is provided with air vents 24. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2221991-A (GB)
Title: Ultrasonic testing of metal-matrix composite materials
Inventor: SMITH RONALD LESLIE
IPC: G01N29/07
Filed: 1989-08-16
Abstract: The mechanical properties of a metal matrix composite material e.g. a bar 12 depend upon both the proportion of filler and the proportion of voids or pores. The filler proportion and the porosity can be assessed non-destructively by causing ultrasonic waves to propagate through a specimen, and measuring both the wave velocity and attenuation in the specimen. These measured values are compared (for example graphically) with those obtained with material of known filler volume fraction and porosity, and hence the unknown values determined. The apparatus 10 includes a tank 14 containing water 16 (as a coupling fluid). The tank has leaky seals 18. Two transducers 20, 22 are provided and a computer 24 is used to provide the results.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2229428-A (GB)
Title: Automatic assembly apparatus
Inventor: YOSHIOKA TERUO
IPC: B23P19/00
Filed: 1990-03-14
Abstract: Assembly apparatus comprises a reciprocating robot apparatus (6) on a frame (1) which has in front thereof a jig base (2) for positioning thereon workpieces (W) to which parts are to be assembled, the parts being picked up by an assembling head out of a parts-containing pallet (P1) which has been moved to a predetermined pickup position on said frame (1). Front and rear (101) pallet chambers are formed in a space under said frame (1) such that parts-containing pallets (P1) can be brought in and taken out in stacked condition, one of said chambers being used as a feeding pallet chamber and the other (102) as a discharging pallet chamber. 
<??>A pallet conveying apparatus (13) transports pallets from the top of the feeding chamber to an upper position of said discharging chamber (102) which constitutes the pickup position, the pallets then being lowered into said discharging pallet chamber. 
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Patent GB-2229508-A (GB)
Title: Swageable end fitting for hoses of different sizes
Inventor: TAKEN COLIN JAMES
IPC: F16L33/207
Filed: 1990-03-21
Abstract: A hose end fitting which accomodates different amounts of body reduction in order to facilitate clamping of differently sized hoses (50 and 51) between a stem member (30) and a swage body (31) of the end fitting. The swage body (31) has an inwardly projecting circumferential flange (40) forming a part of a nose portion (39), and the stem member (30) is formed with a groove (35) for receiving the flange (40) when the swage body is swaged onto the hose end. Groove (35) within the stem member is located between first and second shoulders (36 and 37), the second one (37) of which has a cammed surface which is engageable and deformable by a ramped internal surface (47) of the swage body flange (40). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2231617-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle seat tilt lock mechanism
Inventor: UNCKRICH HERMANN
IPC: B60N2/90
Filed: 1990-04-24
Abstract: In a vehicle seat, particularly a motor vehicle seat, having a frame and a hinge fitting, a back-rest can be pivoted forward together with the hinge fitting and with respect to a seat part and the frame. In the position of use, the hinge part (11) which is pivotally connected at a pivot (12) to the frame (10) has its rear end portion braced against an abutment (13) fixed on the frame part and a catch hook (14) pivotally mounted on the hinge part (11) is secured in a locking position by a control lever and positioning cam (22, 23). The catch hook itself is not self locking. A spring (27) biases the control lever (22) to the locking position. A two-armed lever (40) has a first arm (41) which is maintained in engagement with the abutment (13) in the position of use by the tension of the spring (27) and a second arm (42) which carries a locking projection (45) which engages in a recess in the control lever (22) when the control lever (22) is moved from the locking position by a control wire (37) and the two armed lever (40) rotates anticlockwise due to the force of the spring (27) and rotation of the hinge part (11) about the pivot (12). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2232124-A (GB)
Title: Filmless production of a printing forme
Inventor: UHRIG RUDOLF
IPC: G03F7/30
Filed: 1990-05-21
Abstract: The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for the filmless production of a ready-to-print printing forme. A printing forme (5), sensitive in the emission range of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), is exposed and developed by means of an integrated exposure (1)/developing unit (2) and is then automatically positioned on the plate cylinder (16) of a printing press by means of a high-speed feeding-in device for printing formes.The integration of the exposure (1)/developing unit (2) into the printing press (15) is made possible by the fact that the printing forme (5) is exposed with the image by a vibration-insensitive, compact LED bar (6). 
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Patent GB-2235051-A (GB)
Title: Strip temperature measurement
Inventor: SPOONER PETER DAVID
IPC: G01K13/04
Filed: 1990-07-03
Abstract: The temperature pattern across a strip 2 of material passing over a roll 4 is determined by measuring surface temperatures of different parts of the roll 4. A series of sensors 7 extending axially across the roll downstream from the point 6 of strip-roll contact make the measurements. Means are provided to determine the strip temperature pattern from these measurements. The sensors 7 are supported on an air-cushion close to, but not touching, the roll surface. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2246258-A (GB)
Title: Optical sensor
Inventor: NADEN JAMES MARK
IPC: G01D5/26
Filed: 1990-07-18
Abstract: Calibration information describing the functional dependence of the optical response of an optical sensor (10) upon its measurand is stored in optically coded form as the spectral characteristic of a filter such as a diffraction grating (19) formed by refractive index variations or by microbending in the optical fibre pigtail (18) of the sensor (10). An interrogating beam is sent along an optical fibre 11 to the sensor and, after being modulated by the filter 19, returns along the fibre 11 and is split at 15 to two detectors. One detector 17 is a spectrometer 17 which detects gaps in the spectrum created by the filter 19. The sensor may be a resonator, the frequency of which varies with applied pressure or temperature, and the light may be sent and returned along different optical fibres. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2235298-A (GB)
Title: Zero flow compensation for thermal bridge flowmeter
Inventor: HISANAGA TETSUO
IPC: G01F1/698
Filed: 1990-08-07
Abstract: A zero point compensating circuit for a microbridge flow meter including an upstream thermal sensor means, a downstream thermal sensor means and a heater means located between said upstream and downstream thermal sensor is provided which comprises a first switch coupled to said heater for turning on and off the same and a current supply circuit coupled to said upstream and downstream thermal sensors for selectively supplying the same with a first current when said first switch is closed and a second current larger than said first current when said first switch is opened such that said upstream and downstream thermal sensors reach a temperature to which they are heated when said heater is on in no flow condition. Thus, an offset caused by discrepancy in the resistance value and thermal coefficients of resistance (TCR) of the upstream and downstream temperature sensors can be removed by the above circuit, thereby making it possible to achieve a precise measurement of small flow rates of a fluid of interest.
Patent GB-2249354-A (GB)
Title: Disposable oral liquid measure dispenser
Inventor: WARING DONALD ARTHUR
IPC: A61J7/00
Filed: 1990-10-30
Abstract: A disposable oral liquid measure/dispenser 20 for administering measured, pre-packaged dosages of liquid medication or food to human or animal patients comprises a one-piece structure made of a flexible thermoplastic, preferably by blow-molding. The container/dispenser has an upper cylindrical neck section 22 for filling with liquid and sealable with a tamper-evident seal 26. A flexible bellows section 35 extending downwards from the neck section 22 joins a central fluid reservoir section 40, which is in turn joined at its lower end to a dispensing tube 55 shaped like an inverted U-tube. The outer, outlet leg 60 of the dispensing tube 55 has a cap 67 which is severable by a scissors when it is desired to dispense the contents. Pushing downward on the upper surface 31 of the sealing cap 26 collapses the bellows 35, pressurizing the fluid storage reservoir section 40 of the container. This in turn forces fluid upwards into the inner, inlet leg 56 of the dispenser tube 55, and out through the outlet leg 60 into a patient's mouth. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2238656-A (GB)
Title: Shrink fit implosion protection band
Inventor: SWANK HARRY ROBERT
IPC: H01J29/87
Filed: 1990-11-28
Abstract: A shrink fit implosion protection band (10), Fig. 1, for a CRT faceplate planel (16), Fig. 2, includes an angle  theta  extending the full circumference of the band, such that in use the bend area 22 overlays the panel mould match line (17) and ensures that both edges (20, 21) of the band contact the faceplate after the band has shrunk into position. Preferably the angle  theta  of the band 10 exceeds the angle  beta  formed in the faceplate at the mould match line 17 by 0.5 DEG to 3.5 DEG . <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2243345-A (GB)
Title: A barrier for use in a vehicle
Inventor: SHARPE STANLEY RAYMOND
IPC: B60R21/02
Filed: 1991-03-28
Abstract: The barrier 10 is formed with a contour 15 of curved cross section having an upper portion 13a extending forwardly and a lower portion 13b extending rearwardly whereby when the barrier is installed in a vehicle, it extends across the vehicle and defines a clearance for the head of a passenger in an adjacent seat 11. The barrier may extend from adjacent a top edge of the seat backrest and in this case is similar in shape to the upper section 13 of barrier 10 (Figs 3, 4). The barrier may form a front panel of a cage for use in the vehicle. Various fixing arrangements for the barriers are shown. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2246095-A (GB)
Title: Moulding friction member by controlled vibratory compaction
Inventor: YASUDA GO
IPC: F16D69/00
Filed: 1991-07-15
Abstract: A mixture of materials for a friction member, the binder of which is rubber, resin or the like, within a heated mold (2) in a hydraulic press; is moulded under pressure of a heated hydraulic ram (1) while giving micro-vibrations, the vibrating conditions of which such as the frequency, the amplitude, the waveform, the position at the time of the start and the end of vibrating and the time period can be set according to a desired programme in a function generator, whereby the physical properties and the performance of the frictional material can be changed. The ram (1) initially repeatedly applies a sequence of pressure vibration to the material, followed by a non-vibratory pressure during hardening of the material. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2261242-A (GB)
Title: Drainage channel and cover therefor
Inventor: STRINGER GORDON CLIVE
IPC: E01C11/22
Filed: 1991-11-08
Abstract: A drainage system is made up of interconnecting modules each of which consists of a U-shaped drainage channel (2) surmounted by a cover member (4). The cover member is formed from two back-to-back L-shaped members (18, 20) which define a slot which allows water to drain into the drainage channel. The L-shaped members provide support surfaces for paving bricks, blocks or slabs. A longitudinal bar may be fitted between the edges of the slot in a removable manner to prevent stiletto heels being trapped within the slot. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2264587-A (GB)
Title: Cathode ray display tube.
Inventor: GIBBS TERENCE KEITH
IPC: H01J29/00
Filed: 1992-02-21
Abstract: In a cathode ray display tube the front of the display screen (20) is shielded from the electric fields generated by the electromagnetic deflection coils (40) by an electrically conductive extension (60') of the usually provided exterior conductive coating 60 on the tube funnel, the extension coating (60') being disposed between the deflection coils (40) and the cathode ray tube envelope (10). Preferably a frustoconical insulating insert 90 electrically insulates the deflection coils from the coating extension 60'. Alternatively, Fig. 3 (not shown), the coating 60 is effectively extended by a conductive coating (62), on the inner face of a flexible plastics frustoconical insert (61), in electrical contact with and secured to the coating 60. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2260111-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle luggage attachment for tow hitch
Inventor: HOWLING RICHARD STANLEY
IPC: B60R9/06
Filed: 1992-09-11
Abstract: A luggage-carrying attachment for a vehicle provided with a towing ball hitch 14 comprises a member 16 connectable to the ball and a luggage-supporting attachment 24 engageable with the member. This may be provided by a tubular member that fits over the ball and can be locked in position, into which a pillar 24 may be fitted. Additionally, or alternatively, an L-shaped bracket 40 may be clamped between the bail hitch and the chassis 44 of the vehicle. A cap 46 may then also fit over the towing ball 14 and be secured by a latch 50, an attached platform 56 serving as a luggage support. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2260183-A (GB)
Title: Water tap with resilient closure member
Inventor: BIGGERS JOHN CALEB WELLS
IPC: F16K1/14
Filed: 1992-09-22
Abstract: A valve assembly, for use as a water tap, having a valve seat 17 located in a passageway between a fluid inlet 15 and a fluid outlet 16 and also having an axially recessed spindle 18 moveable toward and away from the valve seat, comprises a resiliently deformable spherical sealing member 11, a plunger member 10 for moving the sealing member against the valve seat, the plunger member including a stem 14 located within the spindle recess, and a helical spring 12 which extends between the valve seat and a portion of the tap through which the spindle extends. A low-friction plastics mesh lining may be arranged within the spring 12 to facilitate rotation of the sealing member in the water flow when the valve is open. The spring may fit inside one end of the plunger, as shown. <IMAGE>