Abstract: The device is provided with an engagement pin carried by a differential housing of the differential operable to rigidly angularly interconnect the differential housing with one of the bevel gears of the differential, and an actuator manually controlled by an operator to bring the engagement pin from a rest position to a working position. The device is further provided with a spring for urging the engagement pin towards the rest position, and locking device for releasably locking the engagement pin against the action of the spring; the locking device automatically disengages, and disengaging the engagement pins when the vehicle brake is actuated, there being provided a hydraulic disengagement piston connected to a brake.

Abstract: A scheme for mounting a permanent magnet group on the flywheel of a small internal combustion engine to provide the moving portion of an ignition system for such an engine is disclosed wherein the engine flywheel is formed of cast iron or similar ferromagnetic material and the magnet group is magnetically isolated from that flywheel so as to minimize short circuiting of the magnet group flux. A generally flat region of the flywheel receives a spacer or plate formed from aluminum or a similar substantially non-magnetic material such as zinc with that plate sandwiched between the flywheel and the magnet group by a pair of aluminum or similar non-magnetic material rivets passing through the flywheel plate and magnet group. The magnet group is held accurately and rigidly in position by upsetting the rivets in such a manner as to axially compress and therefore radially expand the rivet material so that the rivets tightly fill the respective apertures through which they pass.

Abstract: A piston and connecting rod assembly comprises a one-piece yoke thrust bearing disposed between the piston and connecting rod to provide bearing surfaces therebetween. The piston includes a pair of wrist pin bosses disposed therein and in spaced-apart facing relationship. The bosses have oppositely disposed faces with axially aligned bores therein, and the faces have disposed therein respective shoulder-like depressions. The yoke thrust bearing comprises a pair of washer portions in abutment against respective boss faces and interconnected by a yoke element, and the washer portions have respective projections conformably received in respective depressions, thereby aligning the holes in the washers with the bores and preventing rotation of the yoke thrust bearing in the piston. On end of the connecting rod is received between the washer portions, and a wrist pin is passed through the boss bores, washer portions, and the connecting rod opening to thereby pivotally connect the piston and connecting rod together.

Abstract: A clutch for rigid but releasable connection of two coaxial parts of construction, preferably rotating shafts, having flanges centrally arranged at their proximate shaft ends, in which torque is transmitted by a frontal spur or cog gear. Both flanges are clasped by tension sleeves by means of radially protruding collars. The axial force arises by shrinking the tension sleeves which, in a heated condition, are radially positioned on the flanges. An advantage in connection with Cardan joints is that the external diameter of the clutch is no larger than a cross joint or universal, which can transmit the same torque.

Abstract: An override speed control for the carburetor of a small internal combustion engine such as used with lawnmowers. The control for preventing changes in speed of the engine while a speed control lever is moved into its choke position comprises a speed control lever, an intermediate or enabling lever and a throttle control lever. The three levers are interconnected by means of extension springs one each of which connects the intermediate lever respectively to the speed control lever and the governor lever. The speed control lever in the last increment of movement of its control range actuates the choke valve of the carburetor. The governor lever controls the throttle valve of the carburetor. A governor driven by the engine and responsive to engine speed is connected to the governor lever. Adjustable stop means are provided on the intermediate lever to positively stop movement of the intermediate lever during the last increment of movement of the speed control lever.

Abstract: A cam actuated ejector is provided with a shell press having a crankshaft for reciprocating a slide to which die tooling is mounted and having a forming station in which the die tooling forms a part to be ejected. The ejector includes a kicker bar slidably received within a recess in the press and which is in close proximity to and substantially coplanar with a part to be ejected. The kicker bar is positively reciprocated by a cam assembly that is synchronously engaged with the crankshaft, which operates the press slide, such that an end of the kicker bar cyclically moves at a first rate of movement from a first position outside the forming station to an intermediate position wherein the end contacts a part to be ejected.

Abstract: A programming-on-demand cable system is provided which allows any one of a plurality of individual users to request anyone of a plurality of video programs they wish to view from a library of programs, and permits the requested program to be available for viewing on a conventional television set at the user's location following a request initiated by the user. Each program is preprogrammed in a memory device selectable by a host computer at a central data station in response to an address signal transmitted from the user. The host computer in conjunction with other electronics transmits the video program at a high non-real-time rate over a fiber optic line network to a data receiving station at the user's location. The data receiving station then converts the received optical data back to electrical data and stores it for subsequent real-time transmission to the user's television set.

Abstract: An improvement in devices for placing prewound coils and insulating wedges into slots of dynamoelectric machine stator cores, for example in manufacturing electric motors, is disclosed with the device having a wedge making apparatus including a drive, an arrangement for cutting insulating wedges from a strip of insulating material, and an arrangement for forming the wedges into a magazine for subsequent insertion into stator core slots.

Abstract: An appliance programmer, in particular an automatic washer programmer, employs a memory circuit and a sequence control for establishing a predetermined program. Included in the program are a program modification circuit and a rapid advance circuit whose functions are respectively to automatically modify the program inherent in the programmer and to rapidly step the programmer through its operational program. The memory and sequence control of the programmer are designed so that, absent the program modification circuit, the programmer can effect only a single predetermined program. For this reason the program modification circuit has been designed to enable the programmer to effect other programs. The program modification circuit receives inputs from selected function display lights to indicate that a certain function is being performed and from one or more sensors to indicate that a function has been completed or a condition has been satisfied in the automatic washer.