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Giles, GB
Alan Mark Giles, Plympton GB
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| 20100098615 | Carbonising and/or Activating Carbonaceous Material - A method is provided for carbonizing and activating carbonaceous material, which comprises supplying the material to an externally fired rotary kiln maintained at carbonizing and activating temperatures, the kiln having a downward slope to progress the material as it rotates, the kiln having an atmosphere substantially free of oxygen provided by a counter-current of steam or carbon dioxide, and annular weirs being provided at intervals along the kiln to control progress of the material. There may further be provided an externally fired rotary kiln for carbonizing and activating carbonaceous material having a hollow rotary body that has a downward slope towards a discharge end thereof, and which is provided at intervals along its length with annular weirs for controlling progress of the carbonaceous material. In embodiments, there is also provided a process is for producing discrete solid beads of polymeric material e.g. phenolic resin beads having a mesoporous structure, which may be useful as feedstock for the above mentioned carbonization/activation process or which may have other utility e.g. as ion exchange resins. The process may produce resin beads on an industrial scale without aggregates of resin building up speedily and interrupting production. The process comprises the steps of: (a) combining a stream of a polymerizable liquid precursor e.g. a novolac and hexamine as cross-linking agent dissolved in a first polar organic liquid e.g. ethylene glycol with a stream of a liquid suspension medium which is a second non-polar organic liquid with which the liquid precursor is substantially or completely immiscible e.g. transformer oil containing a drying oil; (b) mixing the combined stream to disperse the polymerizable liquid precursor as droplets in the suspension medium e.g. using an in-line static mixer; (c) allowing the droplets to polymerise in a laminar flow of the suspension medium so as to form discrete solid beads that cannot agglomerate; and (d) recovering the beads from the suspension medium. There is also provided apparatus for forming discrete solid beads of polymeric material, said apparatus comprising: a first line for conveying s stream of a polymerizable liquid precursor; a second line for conveying a stream of a dispersion medium with which the polymerizable liquid precursor is substantially or completely immiscible; an in-line mixer configured to receive a combined flow from the first and second lines and to disperse the polymerizable liquid precursor as droplets in the dispersion medium; a vertical polymerization column configured to receive the dispersion medium with the droplets dispersed therein and to permit the polymerizable liquid precursor polymerize while descending the column in a descending flow of polymerization medium; and a vessel at the base of the column for receiving the descending flow of dispersion medium and collecting polymerized solid beads. | 04-22-2010 |
Anthony M.p. Giles, Gwent GB
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| 20090198225 | Electrosurgical system - An electrosurgical system includes an electrosurgical generator including at least one source of radio frequency (RF) power, and a plurality of output connections, only one of the output connections at any one time being active in that it is able to receive radio frequency power from the source. The generator includes selection means adapted to change the active output connection, and a controller adapted to control the supply of radio frequency power from the source to the active output connection. The system also includes a plurality of electrosurgical assemblies, each including an electrosurgical instrument and a cable connecting the electrosurgical instrument to one of the output connections. The electrosurgical assemblies each include a handswitch adapted to send a signal to the selection means to change the active output connection. The selection means is such that a signal sent from the handswitch of the active instrument can cause the selection means to change the active output connection to a different output connection, but a signal sent from the handswitch of an instrument other than the active instrument does not immediately cause the selection means to change the active output connection to a different output connection. | 08-06-2009 |
Darren Giles, Surrey GB
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| 20110174896 | FOUNTAIN FOR FLUID - A fountain for liquid chocolate, comprising: a heated bowl, at least two parallel adjacent open cylinders extending normally of the bowl from a fluid intake position near the bottom of the bowl to a fluid outlet position remote from the bowl, each cylinder containing a coextensive auger whose spiral flight has a rim engaging an inner cylindrical surface of the cylinder and the auger being mounted for rotation about the axis of the cylinder, means for rotating the augers to cause fluid entering the cylinders from the bowl to be conveyed axially to the fluid outlets, and a partition extending across the bowl to prevent mixture of fluid in different portions of the bowl, the arrangement being such that, when the fountain is orientated in use with the cylinders vertical, fluid falling from the top of each cylinder reaches only the respective portion of the bowl from which it was taken. | 07-21-2011 |
Geoffrey Alan Giles, Oxfordshire GB
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| 20110065561 | Leaflet Production - A leaflet is produced from a pre-printed sheet of material by folding the sheet with at least one crease-line along the line of advancement of the sheet but preferably with two or more such crease-lines so that the sheet is fan-folded. The crease-lines are squeezed by a roller nip and then the sheet is fed into a diametral slot in a mandrel of elliptical cross-section. The leading edge of the sheet is gripped within the slot and then the mandrel is rotated to wind the sheet around the outer surface thereof. The wound sheet is then removed from the mandrel and is squeezed through a roller nip so as to form a substantially flat folded leaflet. The leaflet may be converted to a booklet by joining together the overlying sheets along one folded edge of the compressed leaflet and slitting open the other folded edge of the compressed leaflet. | 03-17-2011 |
John J. Giles, Aberdeenshire GB
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| 20090058076 | REMOTE BOLTED FLANGE CONNECTION APPARATUS AND METHODS OF OPERATION THEREOF - A single-module deployable bolted flange connection apparatus ( | 03-05-2009 |
John S. Giles, Aberdeenshire GB
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| 20090108579 | COUPLING FOR CONNECTING TUBES WITH A NUT-RUNNER - A coupling for connecting pipes, having a seal, flanges, a threaded portion and a nut, where the end portion of the pipe is equipped with a concentric press surface located immediately proximal to the periphery of the pipe and designed to be able to take an axial pressure from a preloading tool, which pressure is distributed evenly or point-by-point about the periphery of the pipe. The preloading tool has two end sections connected to two or more rods, each rod being equipped with a hydraulic cylinder. | 04-30-2009 |
Kathrine Giles, Wotton-Under-Edge GB
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| 20110318502 | METHODS OF DEPOSITING SIO2 FILMS - This invention relates to a method of depositing an inorganic SiO | 12-29-2011 |
Kevin Giles, Stockport GB
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| 20100108879 | Mass Spectrometer - A mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising an ion mobility spectrometer ( | 05-06-2010 |
Mark Giles, Southampton GB
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| 20090023887 | PROCESS OF PREPARING REGIOREGULAR POLYMERS - The invention relates to a process of preparing regioregular polymers, in particular head-to-tail (HT) poly-(3-substituted) thiophenes with high regioregularity, to novel polymers prepared by this process, and to the use of the novel polymers as semiconductors or charge transport materials in optical, electrooptical or electronic devices including field effect transistors (FETs), electroluminescent, photovoltaic and sensor devices, to FETs and other semiconducting components or materials comprising the novel polymers. | 01-22-2009 |
Mark Giles, Cambridge GB
Matthew Robert Giles, Chester GB
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| 20120068113 | CHELATING AGENTS AND METHODS RELATING THERETO - A salt of an acidic chelating agent including an amine functionality, the salt comprising at least 0.25 mole of an alkaline earth metal per mole of acidic protons provided by the chelating agent; wherein the acidic chelating agent is not ethylene diamine disuccinic acid. | 03-22-2012 |
Matthew Robert Giles, Chester Cheshire GB
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| 20100175315 | HYDROCARBON COMPOSITIONS - The invention teaches that hydrocarbon compositions may be improved in terms of their stability reserve and in terms of their combustion efficiency, by co-use of a conductivity improver. There is optionally present a combustion improver selected from an iron compound, a manganese compound, a calcium compound and a cerium compound; and/or an organic compound selected from a bicyclic monoterpene, a substituted bicyclic monoterpene, adamantane, a substituted or unsubstituted bicyclic tetraterpene, and propylene carbonate. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100183533 | DETERGENT COMPOSITION - The present invention provides a salt of ethylenediamine disuccinic acid comprising at least 1.6 mole of alkaline earth metal per mole of ethylenediamine disuccinic acid. Salts of the invention have been found to be useful in providing compositions comprising hydrogen peroxide having improved stability. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100191012 | SOLID DETERGENT COMPOSITION - A salt of ethylenediamine disuccinic acid comprising at least 0.7 mole equivalents of magnesium per mole of ethylenediamine disuccinic acid which salt is in the form of a water-soluble, non-hygroscopic solid is disclosed. Also described is a method of preparing such salts and uses thereof. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100197961 | ADDUCT OF 1-HYDROXYETHYLIDENE-1, 1-DIPHOSPHONIC ACID AND ETHYLENEDIAMINE DISUCCINIC ACID OR A SALT THEREOF, A METHOD FOR ITS PREPARATION, AND THE USE OF SAID ADDUCT - An adduct of 1-hydroxyethylidene-1,1-diphosphonic acid and from 0.5 to 10 moles of ethylenediamine disuccinic acid or a salt thereof per mole of 1-hydroxyethylidene-1,1-5 diphosphonic acid, wherein said adduct is in the form of a solid. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100236734 | PROCESS FOR BLEACHING PULP - A process for the bleaching of wood pulp using one or more peroxide oxidising agents wherein the process includes treatment of the pulp with a mixture of chelating agents comprising: (a) a first chelating agent selected from the group consisting of: ethylenediamine N,N-disuccinic acid, methylglycinediacetic acid, glutamic acid N,N-diacetic acid, imino disuccinic acid and anions and mixtures thereof; and (b) a second chelating agent selected from the group consisting of: diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid, ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid, diethylenetriamine penta methylene phosphonic acid and anions and mixtures thereof. | 09-23-2010 |
Melvyn Edward Giles, Leicestershire GB
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| 20080200694 | Process for Making Phenoxy Benzamide Compounds - A process for making a compound of formula (I), said process comprising a) reacting a compound of formula (II) with: i) a compound of formula (III) by nucleophilic aromatic substitution of X | 08-21-2008 |
Nick Giles, York GB
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| 20090012949 | User Specific Database Querying Method and Apparatus - The present invention relates to the field of database technology, and to the automatic generation of search queries. The present invention provides a method of generating a database query, the method comprising: receiving a user selection of one of a number of predetermined generic database queries from a user; automatically identifying user specific data from user profile data corresponding to the user by applying the user profile data to a number of predetermined query statements associated with the selected generic query; automatically applying the user specific data to a number of user specific generator query statements in order to generate one or more user specific queries. | 01-08-2009 |
Nick Giles, London GB
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| 20100191699 | DATA PROCESSING IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A computerized system configured to provide a data cell graph for a distributed data set comprised of different data formats. The system comprises a plurality of data repositories, each data repository configured to retain a portion of the distributed data set translated into a uniform semantic language and a plurality of processing cells, each processing cell configured to translate a portion of the distributed data set into the uniform semantic language, wherein the processing cells are further configured to perform at least one of applying rules to classify data against semantic knowledge models and/or adding inferred facts to and/or transforming the structure of the data found in the translated data in the data repository. The processing cells are configured in a computerized data cell graph so as to progressively create a unified semantic knowledge model for the distributed data set. | 07-29-2010 |
Roger Giles, West Yorkshire GB
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| 20080283742 | Mass Spectrometer - The present invention provides a mass spectrometer having an ion lens capable of transporting an ion having a large mass to charge ratio with a high level of ion-passing efficiency even under a low-vacuum atmosphere. In conventional atmospheric pressure ionization mass spectrometers or similar mass spectrometers, applying an excessively high voltage to the ion lens undesirably causes an electric discharge. Therefore, the passing efficiency for an ion having a large mass to charge ratio cannot be adequately improved, which leads to a poor detection sensitivity. To solve this problem, the mass spectrometer according to the present invention includes a voltage controller | 11-20-2008 |
| 20120056085 | ION ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USE - The present invention is concerned with an ion analysis apparatus for conducting differential ion mobility analysis and mass analysis. In embodiments, the apparatus comprises a differential ion mobility device in a vacuum enclosure of a mass spectrometer, located prior to the mass analyser, wherein the pumping system of the apparatus is configure to provide an operating pressure of 0.005 kPa to 40 kPa for the differential ion mobility device, and wherein the apparatus includes a digital asymmetric waveform generator that provides a waveform of frequency of 50 kHz to 25 MHz. Examples demonstrate excellent resolving power and ion transmission. The ion mobility device can be a multipole, for example a 12-pole and radial ion focusing can be achieved by applying a quadrupole field to the device in addition to a dipole field. | 03-08-2012 |
Roger Giles, Holmfirth GB
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| 20100072362 | TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETER AND A METHOD OF ANALYSING IONS IN A TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETER - A time-of-flight mass spectrometer ( | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100072363 | CO-AXIAL TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETER - A co-axial time-of-flight mass spectrometer having a longitudinal axis and first and second ion mirrors at opposite ends of the longitudinal axis. Ions enter the spectrometer along an input trajectory offset from the longitudinal axis and after one or more passes between the mirrors ions leave along an output trajectory offset from the longitudinal axis for detection by an ion detector. The input and output trajectories are offset from the longitudinal axis by an angle no greater than formula (I): where D | 03-25-2010 |
Terence Giles, Purley GB
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| 20110041573 | Delivery and Collection System - A delivery system uses secure containers each equipped with means such as a keypad ( | 02-24-2011 |