Abstract: A device for measuring the tensile force on a thread includes a housing having thread guides at the points of inlet and outlet of the thread. A spring plate is mounted on the housing intermediate the thread guides and has a dumbbell-shaped guide member at its end for engaging the thread. The spring plate is so mounted that the tension on the thread displaces the spring plate from its initial unflexed position. Adjacent the guide member on the movable spring plate is a permanent magnet which moves with the spring plate as it displaces. A sensor employing the Hall effect is fixed to the housing at a given distance from the magnet. Movements by the magnet are detected by the Hall sensor, which produces an output signal indicative of the displacement of the spring plate, which signal is processed to give an indication of the thread tension.

Abstract: A mount for spinning spindles which discloses various embodiments of wedge type clamping devices for clamping a sleeve, which is disposed around the spindle housing, securely to a spindle bearing plate. The sleeve surrounds the spindle housing with vibration damping elements between them. The wedge clamping devices are driven by a threaded nut which is tightened up around the sleeve and this clamps the sleeve to the plate. A device for separating the drive belt from the drive whorl of the spindle is attachable on the sleeve and presses the belt off the drive whorl, freeing the spindle so that it may then be unclamped for removal from the spindle bearing plate.

Abstract: A seal arrangement for rollers which permits axial displacement of a roller and its shaft with respect to their supporting bearing. A sealing ring which is generally L-shaped in cross-section has one radial arm of the L mounted on the shaft and against the roller, to provide a seal with respect to the roller. The other arm of the L extends axially away from the roller and has an outer circumferential surface which lies closely adjacent an inner surface of the bearing housing to provide a seal with respect to the housing. Lamellar rings may be provided between the bearing housing and the sealing ring.

Abstract: A mounting plate for belt tensioning or guide rollers, or the like, which includes an attachment place generally more centrally disposed along the mounting plate at which the roller is supported and at least two tensioning places at opposite sides of the attachment place for the roller. The plate being attached to a mounting housing at the tensioning places. The plate having resting surfaces protruding from it toward the housing to which the plate is mounted and the resting surface in the attachment place in the region of the tensioning roller protrudes to a greater height than the resting surfaces at the tensioning places for assuring support of the roller against the housing. In another version, the mounting plate is slightly V shaped or concave, with the two tensioning places being on one arm of the V and the attachment place in the region of the tensioning roller on the other arm of the V.

Abstract: An electromagnetically actuatable pressure modulator for anti-locking brake systems utilizes a variable lever-type transmission interposed between a pressure relief piston of the modulator and the compression spring biased armature of an electromagnet whereby the non-linear force/air-gap relationship of the electromagnet is converted to a linear variation of the force applied to the pressure relief piston for moving same. When a predetermined maximum brake pressure is applied to the modulator, the latter automatically isolates the wheel cylinder from the master cylinder.

Abstract: A detachable plug assembly for making a connection between a pipe and an external unit such as a hose fitting or hydraulic unit, for example, in which the pipe can be automatically locked in a well-defined axial position in a bore of the external unit, and thus be assembled in a short time on an assembly line, particularly in the case of assembly by robots, without requiring special tools for either assembly or disassembly. The assembly comprises a bushing which is mountable in a fixed axial position on the pipe, the bushing having a conical shoulder at a forward end thereof for axially engaging the bore of the external unit and centering the pipe therein. The external unit has slots through which project the free ends of a locking element. The free ends extend into the bore of the external unit and engage a groove in the bushing for retaining the pipe in the bore of the external unit.

Abstract: A double-row, angular-contact ball bearing unit includes double sided cage, a plurality of balls maintained in first and second circular arrays by the cage and disposed between a one piece outer ring having two races and an inner ring formed of two side by side sections, each having an individual race. Angled deflectible locking fingers extend inwardly from the cage into a locking groove in the inner ring section for the first array at a location between the arrays of balls, and this section extends sideways into the region of the second array. The outer ring is undercut from the outer race having the second array to the side of the outer ring that is remote from the first array. The cage side for the first array is of the comb-type and the cage side for the second array is of the window-type.

Abstract: A vehicular braking system wherein the brake circuit for the rear axle operates at a reduced pressure compared to master cylinder pressure that is applied directly to the brake circuit for the front axle, is provided with a pump that operates continuously during braking to draw fluid from the rear brake circuit and deliver same to the front brake circuit to essentially eliminate hysteresis, typical to prior art braking systems, that results in overbraking of the rear axle when master cylinder pressure is being reduced.

Abstract: A ball sleeve for guiding axially displaceable parts includes bearing cage (3) that is formed integrally with coil springs (4), (4) which extend from both axial sides of cage (3).

Abstract: A cage for lipless roller bearings, in which two rows of bearings are separated and supported by a support ring that is wedge- or cusp-shaped in cross-section at the longitudinally inward ends of the roller rows. The support ring surfaces facing the roller ends are so shaped (e.g. having a surface that is inclined to the roller end, or having a larger radius of curvature than the curved roller end, with the axes of curvature being placed inward of the roller axes) that there is defined a lubrication-receiving space between the support ring and the ends of the supported rollers which increases in width toward the radial interior of the bearing, to improve lubrication characteristics. Advantageously the cage may be used with a lipless self-aligning roller bearing, or a lipless conical or tapered roller bearing.

Abstract: A spindle assembly for use with a magnetic disk or the like including a pair of bearings axially spaced by an outer ring and a shaft is posed through the outer ring. A receiving part is placed over one end of the shaft. The receiving part has a bore for receiving the outer ring. A drive motor is attached to the other end of the shaft. A housing is positioned on and directly adjacent the outer ring and extends between the drive motor and the receiving part which each have a step-down or reduced cross-section area. The housing has a bore to receive the first end of the shaft and also receives the magnetic disk. A drive motor is provided at the other end.

Abstract: A brake pressure regulator for hydraulic brake systems of vehicles, which controls the required braking pressure on the rear axle as a function of the distribution of the axial load, in such a manner that no overbraking of the rear axle takes place. The regulator comprises an actuating piston for receiving an input brake pressure and in response generating a first force; a spring beam and a support for engaging the spring beam, the spring beam being adjustable in response to the vehicle load distribution for receiving the first force and in response generating a second force related to such vehicle load distribution according to a predetermined function corresponding to a degressive curve, the spring beam and the support being shaped to determine the predetermined function; and a control piston for receiving the second force and in response generating an output brake pressure.

Abstract: A cage for a tapered roller bearing includes a small diameter ring, a large diameter ring and circumferentially spaced arms joining the rings and defining pockets for the tapered rollers. The inwardly facing opposite surfaces of the arms in a pocket including an axial region adjoining the large diameter ring, which is also radially outside of the mold parting line developed during the formation of the cage. Those surfaces of the arms in the region adjoining the large side ring of the cage are shaped to the roller within the packet. In each cylindrical sectional plane through the bearing, which also passes through each of the rollers and is parallel to the axis of the bearing, the distance apart of the surfaces of the arms is approximately the length of a chord of the largest diameter of the roller in that cylindrical sectional plane.

Abstract: An arrangement for sealing a space having therein rotating means, such as a roller bearing, is provided with sealing rings that are spaced along a rotational axis. The inner annular sealing edges of the sealing rings are biased to engage and seal in against seats that are moving relative to the sealing edges. The seats and sealing edges are disposed so that one or the other of the latter lifts off of its seat to permit pressure within the space to equalize automatically with ambient pressure whether the latter rises or falls relative to pressure within the space.

Abstract: A pressure modulator for anti-locking brake systems is provided with a pressure relief piston whose movement is controlled as a function of torque transmitted by an electromagnetic friction clutch.

Abstract: The invention concerns a sliding sleeve for being disposed around the outer ring of an anti-friction bearing and for being secured to a base member. The sliding sleeve might be used in the clutch of an automotive vehicle. The sliding sleeve has one arm extending axially past the outer ring of the bearing and a radially inwardly directed arm. The inner ring of the bearing has a radially outwardly directed flange. The radially inwardly directed arm and the radially outwardly directed flange extend partially past each other and are sealed to each other. There is a sliding connection between the radially inwardly directed arm of the sliding sleeve and the radially outwardly directed flange of the inner ring. The radially inwardly directed arm contacts the axially outward end of the outer ring.

Abstract: A separator for accurate positioning and easy replacement of magnets in an annular array around a spindle comprises an annularly shaped, elastic separator constructed of plastic materials. The plastic separator includes either cross machine struts that define open bottom recesses or it includes closed bottom recesses for receiving and accurately positioning and retaining the magnets circumferentially around its annular body. The separator applies an initial stress to the magnets to assure precise positioning. Radially directed projections on the body of the separator are shaped to fit into a groove defined in the interior of a motor housing, whereby the magnets carried by the separator are precisely located relative to the motor housing. The Separator-based magnet fixing means are particularly suitable for disk storage spindle applications.

Abstract: A seal for an anti-friction bearing, which bearing includes an outer and inner ring and rolling elements riding between them. At the inner ring, the seal includes an axially outwardly extending leg or membrane, the radially inward side of which carries two axially spaced apart sealing ridges which are resiliently biased against the inner ring for effecting a seal. In the above axial membrane, there is an additional membrane of smaller cross section formed by a radial constriction of that axial membrane between the two sealing ridges, which makes the support of the axially outward sealing ridge more flexible. The distance between the sealing ridges is at least equal to the axial clearance in the completed installed bearing.

Abstract: In a friction false-twisting unit including three parallel spindles supported on a mount and each spindle carrying a stack of friction disks and the friction disks of the various spindles being interleaved, the thread to be threaded into the unit passing from an upper thread guide above the ends of the spindles, over a thread guide arm which holds the thread away from contact with the disks, and to a feeder system below the other end of the spindles. A support lever is movable between an operative position which holds the drive whorl for the spindles in contact with an operating belt and an inoperative position at which the spindle mount is moved to separate the drive whorl from the belt. The thread guide arm is on the support lever to be moved to the position holding the thread away from the disk when the support lever is moved to the inoperative position of the unit.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns a bar dosimeter used for measuring ionizing radiation. In a hollow housing, an axially deflectible contact pin is centrally supported in a deflectible membrane. The pin and the membrane are deflectible over center to a first deflected position wherein the pin engages another contact leading to an ionizing capacitor, and to a second deflected condition, where the pin is spaced away from the contact of the capacitor. Stops supported in the housing define the first and second deflected positions of the pin and the membrane. A spring acts through an intermediate piece to normally bias the pin and the membrane to the second deflected condition where the pin is out of engagement with the contact.