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Patent GB-2156098-A (GB)
Title: Control of electric heating apparatus
Inventor: HAWKE JOHN RICHARD
IPC: G05D23/19
Filed: 1984-02-18
Abstract: For controlling the supply of electrical energy to e.g. heating tapes wrapped around process plant pipes the output of which heats the surface of the pipe the energy losses from which are dependent upon ambient temperature. The ambient temperature is sensed and used to control the supply of electrical energy. The relationship between the rate at which energy is supplied to the heating tape and the ambient temperature is established by calculating the percentage of the maximum possible power supply required to maintain the pipe at a desired temperature when the ambient temperature is at a predetermined level. The span in temperature between the predetermined desired surface temperature and the ambient temperature at which 100% of the maximum possible power supply has to be supplied to maintain the desired temperature is calculated to provide a relationship between the percentage of maximum power supplied and the ambient temperature. The percentage of the maximum power supplied at any given time is controlled accordingly. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2155533-A (GB)
Title: Lock keep plate
Inventor: BROWN DENNIS DUNLOP
IPC: E05B15/02
Filed: 1984-03-09
Abstract: A lock keep plate 2 adapted for securement to a door frame or other surround and to receive a lockable bolt projecting from a cooperating lock, has a flange 8 adapted to extend into the frame to avoid distortion of the plate when subject to force and to protect that area of the door frame which has been reduced in cross section due to the keep mortice which receives the locking bolt. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2139551-A (GB)
Title: Method of making a hollow article of polypropylene by biaxial stretch blow moulding
Inventor: AOKI KATASHI
IPC: B29C35/00
Filed: 1984-03-29
Abstract: A method is disclosed of manufacturing, by biaxial stretch blow moulding, a hollow article of polypropylene, such as a bottle which is transparent and has luster and a uniform wall thickness as a whole. In the method, fully mixed and blended molten polypropylene is injected into a parison mould to form a parison, and the parison is removed from the parison mould as soon as possible, whilst only a surface layer has cooled sufficiently to form a skin. The parison is transferred immediately to the cavity of a temperature control device, where the parison is subjected briefly to a preliminary stretching and blowing to expand it into contact with the surface of the cavity. The parison is then allowed to contract again and is transferred to a blow mould where it is subjected to a conventional stretch blow moulding process to produce the desired hollow article.
Patent GB-2444542-A (GB)
Title: A missile angle tracking radar
Inventor: PAWSEY PETER GRAHAM
IPC: H01Q1/18
Filed: 1984-04-04
Abstract: A steerable antenna 1 is stabilised by remote gyros 11 strapped down to the missile body. Target angle off boresight is derived to provide antenna tracking control and missile guidance signals. The gyro signals are employed to decouple the body motion from the target sightline signals. Imperfection in the gyro scale factor leaves residual body motion coupling and consequent tracking and guidance error. The invention provides means for correlating body motion components in the sightline signals with body motion gyro signals and decoupling this component according to the degree of correlation. A 3-d Kalman filter provides one correlation system. Alternatively, two 2-d Kalman filter systems are cross-coupled and either employ an extension of the filters to accommodate the correlation or employ direct correlation of the 2-d outputs with body rate signals about 3 axes.
Patent GB-2137877-A (GB)
Title: Bath taps safety cover
Inventor: BOYLE FRANCIS ERNEST
IPC: F16K27/12
Filed: 1984-04-12
Abstract: A bath taps safety cover 10 which can be used, if expanded, on its own or as a base onto which resilient material and water resistant material are successively fixed, provides protection against possible injury from bath taps by enclosing them within the cover. Access to the bath taps is provided for through two holes 11 in the top of the safety cover and the means of affixing the cover is by way of the rear 12 of the cover behind the bath taps. Water is allowed to flow through the safety cover by means of an outlet 13 situated at the bottom of the safety cover. If access to the bath taps is not required then the holes 11 are not provided, fig. 2 (not shown). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2141759-A (GB)
Title: Connecting structure for framable sections with a heat transfer medium passage in prefabricated unit type curtain wall assembly
Inventor: KAMINAGA HIROMITSU
IPC: F24F1/00
Filed: 1984-04-19
Abstract: A connecting structure for framable sections 40 in a prefabricated unit type curtain wall assembly has a pair of framable sections 40, 40 each having a heat transfer medium circulation passage 45 and their respective opposed ends C, D being cut at a predetermined angle so as to be interconnected to each other. The ends G, H of respective heat transfer medium circulation passages 45 of the pair of framable sections 40, 40 are cut so as to lie short of the opposed ends C, D of the framable sections 40, 40. The connecting structure further has a pair of connector members 60 adapted to be connected to the open ends of the heat transfer medium circulation passages 45, respectively, and a member 70 having a heat transfer medium communication passage formed therein adapted to connect said pair of connector members 60. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2164551-A (GB)
Title: Multipotent stick
Inventor: STEER ALEC GEORGE
IPC: A01K97/10
Filed: 1984-09-24
Abstract: The stick 1 has a handle 2 which serves as a seat or dishing rod support, a support 3 for a bag of weeds or fishing rod, a fisherman's third hand 4, a dished washer 5 and a buttress 6 for lifting weeds, roots of fence posts or for scraping boots, cutting earth or loosening stones. Auger 7 has a vee gap to be used as a boot jack, hole 9 enables make-off of fencing wire and slot 10 may be used to extract protruding nails. The stick may be yellow. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2151594-A (GB)
Title: Feeding device for metallic bars or tubes
Inventor: MORANDINI BENEDETTO
IPC: B23Q7/10
Filed: 1984-10-30
Abstract: A feeding device for bars or tubes (31,) has a frame (32,33;) carrying equipment for supporting and moving the bars or tubes. The device has actuating means (68,67) for effecting the transport and selection of the bars by conveying them, one or more at a time, to a processing machine (M) for example for cutting the bars or tubes into small pieces. The device has a sloping surface (58) from which carriages on the chains (68) can lift them. The device can be set up in different configurations for round section or polygonal section material and can handle small bars, or bars that are long and heavy. As shown, round (rollable) bars are lifted by chains 34 on to sloping surface 58 when absence of bars is signaled by detector 47. For non-rollable bars, transfer is performed by a reciprocating sloping table. Bars are released to output table G by catch 77. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2157469-A (GB)
Title: Coin release mechanism
Inventor: HARRINGTON MICHAEL FRANCIS
IPC: G07F11/18
Filed: 1985-04-12
Abstract: A coin-freed mechanism for a vending machine having a slidable drawer (4) also has a means such as a bolt (19) to lock the drawer against release but to permit a minor sliding movement of the drawer in the locked position. A coin chute (27) has an outlet adjacent to a lip (18) on the drawer (4) which retains coins in the chute (27). The drawer (4) has an inclined portion (17) adjacent the lip (18) such that as the drawer (4) is withdrawn the coins are pushed up the inclined portion (17) and up the chute (27). A trigger means mounted on the coin chute (27), has an abutment portion which is movable relative to the chute (27) and which interacts with the locking means such that movement of coin(s) up the chute pushes the abutment portion sufficiently to release the locking means. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2174488-A (GB)
Title: Heat exchanger plate
Inventor: FISCHER HELMUT
IPC: F28F3/08
Filed: 1985-04-30
Abstract: A detachable plate heat exchanger has plates pressed from sheet metal. Central sections 1 of the plates, used for heat exchange, have numerous corrugated pressings 3 which run obliquely at angles  alpha ,  alpha ' to the longitudinal axis of the plate and lie opposed to and intersect with the pressings of adjacent plates. The corrugated pressings are divided into numerous circular corrugated areas 2 which cover the central section of the plate in tightly-joined rows. For manufacturing the heat exchange plates, a press tool (Figure 5) comprises a base plate on which can be secured numerous circular stamps in such manner that the stamp can be rotated about its vertical axis so that the ribs used for pressing the corrugations form the required angle to the longitudinal axis of the heat-exchange plate <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2164367-A (GB)
Title: A concrete building unit of a sandwich structure
Inventor: PAAKKINEN ILMARI
IPC: E04C2/288
Filed: 1985-09-03
Abstract: A concrete building unit, comprises two concrete slabs (1, 2) positioned in parallel at a distance from each other and an insulating layer (3) filling the space between the concrete slabs, and wire trusses (5) positioned between the slabs and cast in the concrete slabs at the opposite longitudinal edges of the trusses. In order to simplify the assembly of the insulating layer, the central portion of at least one wire truss (5) is over the whole length thereof stationarily cast inside an insulating material (8) to form an integral body (4) with the insulating material. In a truss element (4) intended for such a building unit, a truss wire (6) is stationarily cast inside an insulating layer (8) to form a beam having a rectangular cross-section. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2182808-A (GB)
Title: Electric motor having a spherical gap
Inventor: LAING KARSTEN
IPC: H02K1/14
Filed: 1985-10-31
Abstract: An electric motor having a spherical rotor (3) which extends axially at both ends beyond the central plane (2), whereby the output may be increased for a given diameter. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2171942-A (GB)
Title: Cutting bladed discs especially for pumps
Inventor: LOTZ HEINRICH
IPC: B23P15/00
Filed: 1986-02-06
Abstract: Slots are sawn into the edges of discs for pumps with a cup saw so as to produce blades having a curved cross-section. The blades may taper inwardly or outwardly or have no taper.
Patent GB-2186246-A (GB)
Title: External rear view mirror
Inventor: ZIPPERLE MICHAEL
IPC: B60R1/076
Filed: 1986-02-10
Abstract: External rear view mirror for motor vehicles, comprising a mirror housing (3) in which the mirror glass (4) is disposed for displacement relative to the mirror housing, and comprising a base (1) adapted for rigid connection to the vehicle and by way the mirror housing can, in a predetermined position in which it projects from the vehicle, be pivoted about an axis (2) and out of this position once the retaining force of a locking device (9) has been overcome, characterized by, for influencing the pivoting capacity of the mirror housing (3) about the axis (2) in relation to the base (1), a ratchet device (10, 11) having at least two angularly offset ratchet positions (Fig. 2), one of which maintains the mirror housing (3) in a position suitable for a left-hand drive vehicle while the other maintains it in a different position suitable for a right-hand drive vehicle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2184086-A (GB)
Title: Blister pack apparatus and feeder apparatus
Inventor: JEFFERIES FREDERICK WILLIAM
IPC: B65B61/06
Filed: 1986-07-29
Abstract: Foil material 20 is heated and has blisters formed at a blister forming station 29 and the blisters are then filled at a feeding station 30. The blisters are sealed at a sealing station 32 with lidding material and a blanking operation is then effected to blank off the individual packs. The blanking operation may be set for a wide variety of widths of pack without the need to change the blanking tools. This is achieved by using a two-stage banking operation. In the first stage, radiused corners of the packs are formed by punching tools 100 forming cutouts in opposite sides of the web of sealed blisters and in the second stage a straight cut between opposed cut-outs is made by transverse punch tool 106 to separate off the individual pack. In order correctly to match the straight cut with the radiused corners, an accurate indexing operation is effected by engagement of fingers 97 with lateral slots 98 formed together with the radiused corners by punch tools 99 and the lateral edge material containing the slots is blanked off by tools 107 at the final blanking operation. The feeding station comprises a pocketted cordless belt in which tablets from a hopper are retained by a plate 74 and reciprocable shutter 76 with the latter is retracted to release a predetermined number of counted tablets into the spaced blisters formed in the web 20 upon stopping of the belt (Figs. 12 and 13). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2199718-A (GB)
Title: Phonographic cartridges
Inventor: DALGLIESH MARTIN
IPC: G11B3/10
Filed: 1986-11-18
Abstract: A phonographic cartridge (10) is attachable to a head shell by means of screws extending through three apertures (30, 32, 34) arranged in a triangle on the top surface (14, 18) of the cartridge body (12, 16). Each of the apertures (30, 32, 34) is surrounded by an annular land (24, 26, 28) such that the headshell and cartridge (10) are in mechanical contact at the vertices of the triangle. This arrangement improves the mechanical coupling of the headshell and cartridge (10). The lands (24, 26, 28) may alternatively be formed on the headshell, or separate washers may be employed for the same purpose. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2184399-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for applying a pattern to a substrate
Inventor: WORTH JULIAN OTTO
IPC: B44C3/08
Filed: 1986-12-08
Abstract: A method of applying a pattern to a substrate comprises severing at least one area from a decorative material having a layer of activatable adhesive bonded thereto, and forming at least a temporary bond between the or each discrete area and the substrate. Apparatus for applying the pattern to the substrate comprises a punching device for punching the discrete area or areas from the decorative material and activatable adhesive, and a bonding device for bonding the area or areas to the substrate. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2203996-A (GB)
Title: Edging strip
Inventor: DANIELS TREVOR JOHN
IPC: E04F19/06
Filed: 1987-04-28
Abstract: An edging strip to fill the gap between the ends of two panels or tiles (6, 7) forming an outwardly facing corner comprising a pair of oppositely facing webs (4a, 4b) connected to a contoured corner in-fill section (2). The webs (4a, 4b) are spaced below the level of the outer surface (18) of the corner section (2) so that a panel or tile (6, 7) can be positioned on top of a respective web (4a, 4b) with its outer surface (19) coterminous with the outer surface (18) of the corner section (2). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2191133-A (GB)
Title: Method of making pump rods
Inventor: KARAEV ISLAM KARIM OGLY
IPC: B23K33/00
Filed: 1985-11-26
Abstract: A method of making pump rods shaped each as a bar (1) with end heads (2) consists in upsetting the end portions (8) of the bar (1) at a temperature excluding the softening of the metal of the bar (1) and thus providing at each of the portions (8) a thickening (9) the width of which in the direction perpendicular to the axis of the bar (1) is equal to or larger than the maximum diameter of the head (2) within the weld joint area and the length of which exceeds the width of the welding heat-affected zone (17), and providing also a transitional section (10) shaped as a body of revolution the cross-section of which smoothly and continuously diminishes in the direction from the thickening (9) to the bar (1). The upsetting is followed by the pressure welding of each end head (2) to the thickening (9) on the end portion (8) of the bar (1) and by the machining of the weld joint area.
Patent GB-2200767-A (GB)
Title: A centrifugal governor for injection pumps in internal combustion engines
Inventor: LEONARDI CORNELIO
IPC: F02D1/10
Filed: 1988-01-29
Abstract: A centrifugal governor for injection pumps in internal combustion engines has a governor member (16), adjustable in dependence upon rotational speed, and a governor level (19), which transmits the displacement of the governor member (16) and that of an arbitrarily actuable adjusting member (22, 23) to a fuel quantity control rod (20). A stop lever (30) actuated by a control lever (33) has a stop (29) cooperates with a counter-stop (28) on a connecting bar (27) located between the governor lever (19) and the governor rod (20) to limit the full-load delivery quantity. A second device (39) limits the delivery quantity on starting. To adjust the delivery quantity on starting, to a value which is less than the full-load quantity, the second device (39) has a second stop (40) on the stop lever (30) and a second counter-stop (41) disposed on the governor lever (19), at least one of which is displaceable in the direction of pivoting of the governor lever (19). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2205813-A (GB)
Title: A wallet for collecting money
Inventor: GROUNDS ALAN FRANK
IPC: A45C1/12
Filed: 1988-05-31
Abstract: A wallet (2) for collecting money (4) comprises a flat sided body portion (6), a slot (8) for inserting money into the body portion (6), an opening (10) for removing collected money, a closure flap (12) for closing the opening (10), and security sealing means (14) for the closure flap (12). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2206566-A (GB)
Title: Multiconnectible waste disposal chute system
Inventor: STANTON GARRY
IPC: E04F17/12
Filed: 1988-06-06
Abstract: A waste disposal chute system comprises a channel or duct member 6 which is secured to an outer wall of a building 9 and has an access cap 8. Several such members 6 may be mounted in series above each other to serve floors at different levels. Each floor may have full access to the chute system therein provided, by the fitting of a wall traversing duct member 5 which communicates with the said channel or duct member 6 in either a horizontal or sloping manner. The system further comprises a flange like cover 7 under which a bin 10 or bins are located, at the under side of which cover there is a slide valve, which when pushed into its engaged position allows each channel or duct member 6 to become a container within itself. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2206855-A (GB)
Title: Front view mirror device
Inventor: ORSSAUD ANDRE
IPC: B60R1/10
Filed: 1988-06-08
Abstract: The device 5 is installed inside the passenger space of the vehicle 1 on the opposite side from the driver, and comprises a V-shaped mount, the two arms of which carry a pair of mirrors 7, 8 in planes intersecting at an acute angle ( alpha  Fig. 2), with one mirror 7 facing the front while the other mirror 8 faces towards the driver and the rear. The preferred driver's line-of-sight angle to the mirror 8 in relation to the angle between mirrors 7 and 8 is also discussed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2211568-A (GB)
Title: Locomotives
Inventor: EVANS RODNEY
IPC: B60T1/06
Filed: 1988-10-10
Abstract: A locomotive primarily for use in mines comprises a braked wheel set (10) which can be driven by an electric motor (12), the armature of which is provided with liquid-cooled brake means (18), and control means (42) operable to de-energise the motor (12) and to alternatively apply the armature brake means (18) and wheel brakes (20) whereby the rate of descent of the locomotive on a gradient can be controlled. When the brake cooling liquid temperature exceeds a first set value the wheel brakes (20) only are applied and when the liquid temperature falls to a second set value the liquid-cooled brake (15) only is applied. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2213059-A (GB)
Title: Organogermanium compounds for stimulating bone metabolism
Inventor: ORIMO HAJIME
IPC: A61P19/10
Filed: 1988-12-02
Abstract: An activator for osteoblasts comprises a salt of (1) an organogermanium compound of the formula:… …<IMAGE>… wherein R1, R2 and R3 may be the same or different, and each is hydrogen, alkyl (e.g. methyl or ethyl) or aryl, and (2) a basic amino acid (e.g. lysine).
Patent GB-2228948-A (GB)
Title: Fabrication of thin films from a composite target
Inventor: DEMPSTER MARK
IPC: C23C14/46
Filed: 1989-02-28
Abstract: A system for depositing a film on a substrate (3) by sputtering material from a composite target (2) including different materials on different regions (A, B, C) of the target surface, in which the system is a particle-beam sputtering source system, such as an ion-beam gun, in which the substrate is mounted on a fixed stage and the composite target is mounted for rotation so that different materials are successively sputtered onto the substrate (3) from the different regions is further characterised by including a shutter in the particle-beam path arranged to shut off the particle-beam while the composite target is rotating. In an alternative embodiment a segmented target may be used. An alternative system comprises a field sputtering system in which the substrate (3) is mounted for rotation on a stage (10) and the system includes an earth shield (7) interposed between the stage (10) and the target (2) and arranged to rotate with the stage. The earth shield (7) includes an aperture (6) aligned with the substrate (3). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2231579-A (GB)
Title: Spray-dried detergent
Inventor: ANDERSON ROBERT WILLIAM
IPC: C11D17/06
Filed: 1989-05-09
Abstract: Irregular shaped detergent particles of rod-like or dumbell-like shape containing at least 5% by weight of anionic surfactant may be prepared by spray-drying a concentrated aqueous slurry having a water content of not more than 50% by weight.
Patent GB-2221308-A (GB)
Title: Passively improving field homogeneity in a magnetic resonance system
Inventor: PALKOVICH ALEX
IPC: G01R33/3873
Filed: 1989-07-06
Abstract: Six trays, which together form a cylinder when mounted in the bore of a magnet of a magnetic resonance system, each comprise rows and columns of pockets 21 capable of holding up to three stacked shim pieces. In an iterative process involving measurement of field inhomogeneity and a computer programme for calculating shim placement for measuring homogeneity, the necessary distribution of shim pieces for maximum homogeneity is determined, e.g. up to the 10th harmonic in about three iterations. Glue may be used to secure the shims in the trays and the trays in the magnet bore. 
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Patent GB-2239892-A (GB)
Title: Espagnolette
Inventor: PARTRIDGE KEITH
IPC: E05C9/18
Filed: 1989-11-17
Abstract: An espagnolette (10) for retaining a window, door or other hinged wing in a closed position comprises first (11), second (12) and third members (13), the second member (12) being slidable relative to the first (11) and third (13) members, the first member (11) having a first catch element (19) which is movable by a first operating element (21) carried by the second slidable member (12) between a locked and unlocked position, and the second slidable member (12) carrying a second catch element (25) which is movable by a second operating element (27) of the third member (13) between a locked and unlocked position. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2228537-A (GB)
Title: Scroll compressor
Inventor: CHIYOYA TSUKASA
IPC: F04C18/02
Filed: 1989-12-29
Abstract: An intake opening 55 is formed in the stationary scroll 19 of the compressing unit of a horizontally installed scroll type compressor for taking refrigerant into the compressing chamber, and an oil return opening 57 is formed in a frame (23, Figs. 2, 4, & 5) fixed in the sealed casing for discharging lubricating oil from the compressing unit. The oil return opening 57 is arranged apart from the intake opening 55 at a prescribed distance in the rotational direction A of the main shaft of a driving unit to prevent lubricating oil discharged from the oil return opening 57 from directly entering into the compressing chamber through the intake opening 55. <IMAGE>