Abstract: A spreading spring for a floating-caliper or a fist-type caliper spot-type disc brake for automotive vehicles, comprising a spreading spring portion (30) which extends substantially in axial direction and forms two legs (34,36), the end portions of the legs (34,36) abutting on backing portions of brake pads (16,18). A resilient bracket (28) connected thereto extends substantially in circumferential direction and forms two legs (54,56) with the ends of the resilient bracket being supported on retaining pins (22,24).

Abstract: The invention relates to a brake shoe retainer mounting assembly. The assembly has a cylindrical anchor pin with through bore. This pin is located to extend through the brake shoe and through a brake spider. A retaining washer is located at either end of the pin and the assembly is held in position by a fastener which extends through the bore.

Abstract: A guide block (11) has a groove (16) with a flat floor cut into it, in which an endless belt (15) containing perforations (17) travels. A suction opening (18) opens into the floor of the groove (16), to which a vacuum is periodically applied by means of a valve (12). The endless belt (15) travels over a stack (1) of sheets (2) by means of guide rollers (4,5) and a drive roller (3). The vacuum, when periodically applied by the valve (12), operates through the perforations (17) so that the topmost sheet (2) of the stack (1) is sucked against the endless belt (15) and carried away in the same direction (28). One preferred form of the endless belt (15) is a toothed belt, with spaces between the teeth (21) that form vacuum chambers (22). With this compact and therefore easily positionable device, sheets (2) are sucked up from a stack (1) and transported away while maintaining their orientation, meaning that very high production rates are attained.

Abstract: A screen printing apparatus is provided for transferring sheet materials from a supply area to a printing table. The apparatus has a pair of grippers which are guided jointly over the printing table in a timed manner in order to grip a blank sheet at a feeding table and pull it over the printing table. The two grippers are separately guided above the printing table in such a way that their movements take place in opposite directions to one another and that one of the gripper fails passes over the other one in the area of the center of the printing table. This design has the advantage that during the transport by a first gripper of a sheet to be printed on the printing table, a second gripper rail already returns to its starting position. Therefore, when the printed sheet is removed from the printing table, a new sheet can be placed thereupon immediately. Idle times for the conveying of the sheets to be printed are eliminated with the use of only two grippers.

Abstract: A method for feeding material sheet to a press comprises steps of transferring a material sheet on which print parts and the corresponding positioning marks are printed for a preset distance at least until the positioning mark comes into the field of view of a viewing device provided in a position related to the working position of the press, detecting misalignment between the centers of the positioning mark and a reference mark of the field of view in the X and Y axis directions by the viewing device, and positioning the print part at the press working position automatically and precisely by using the detected amount of the misalignment as a correction value for positioning.

Abstract: Assembly component (56) for a disc brake of the type incorporating a calliper (10) sliding on a fixed support (16) by way of two axial pillars (12, 14) each incorporating, firstly, a cylindrical sleeve (42), and secondly, a removable portion (40) one end of which (48) incorporates a thread which is capable of fixing the pillar (12, 14) to the fixed support (16), and whose other end (52) is capable of being pushed in rotation by a suitable mounting tool. The assembly component (56) forms a channel with parallel sides, one side of which incorporates locking portions cooperating with each of the sleeves (42) and firmly fixing the assembly component (56) to the sleeves (42), whose other side carries tapped components (50) capable of cooperating with the removable portion (40), and whose central portion (76) straddles the fixed support (16).

Abstract: A disc brake unit for machinery, hoists and the like having a pair of brake shoes normally spring biased to a brake engaged condition. A hydraulically operated first piston may be hydraulically actuated to relieve the spring bias to release the spring pressure acting on the disc and thus release the brake. A second piston may then be actuated for moving the brake shoes against the disc and applying a modulated force to the disc while the fist piston is in position to oppose the spring bias, to thereby apply slip braking torque to the output shaft.

Abstract: A holder for a stack of sheets which can be fed therefrom in successive cycles from the bottom of the stack and returned to the top of the stack or, in the last cycle, discharged to a tray. The holder includes a separator which can be engaged between the sheets of the stack for separating returned sheets from the other sheets of the stack. A detection system is provided for detecting sheets that have been placed in the holder (for starting a first cycle) and for detecting when all of the sheets have been returned to the holder (for starting a next cycle). The detection system includes a light source and a light sensitive detector installed at the bottom of the stack. When, by the feeding of sheets, the separator reaches the bottom of the stack, the separator intercepts the light from the light source to cause a signal from the detector. This signal is similar to the signal of the detector when the holder is empty, but which signal differs from the reaction of the detector when a sheet intercepts the light.

Abstract: A process for gripping flexible layers arranged in a stack of layers in order to separate one or more upper layers from the other layers of the stack makes use of a needle (23) moving with respect to a contact surface (14a) with a clearance (16). The motion of the needle (23) is implemented in such a manner that during the displacement of its end, said needle thrusts the upper flexible layer toward the clearance (16) to form a corrugation in said clearance; during the final stage of the motion, the needle crosses said corrugation.

Abstract: A displacement detection device which detects the displacement of a paper sheet in transit in a paper sheet sorter that picks up and transports the paper sheet such as the bank-notes. The displacement detection device includes photo sensors which detect the leading edge of the paper sheet that is being transported, and a photo position detector which detects the distance from the conveyer belt to the side edge of said paper sheet. Each of said photo sensors comprises of a light emitter and a light receiver which are arranged on opposite sides of the paper sheet. The photo position detector is placed on the downstream side in the conveyance direction of the photo sensors, extending perpendicularly to the conveyance line, and comprises a light projector and a light receiver with linear form and equal length arranged symmetrically with respect to the paper sheet.

Abstract: Disc brake with automatic adjustment incorporating a calliper (10) mounted so as to slide on a fixed support by way of at least one axial pillar, a brake actuator (34) acting directly upon a first friction component, and by reaction through the calliper, upon a second friction component, the brake actuator (34) incorporating a mechanical control (48-50-60) acting upon a hydraulic control piston (36) through an automatic adjustment device (66), the adjustment device (66) being formed by a screw and nut system (68-70), which has a pitch which allows reverse action, and is capable of being actuated by the hydraulic piston (36) beyond a predetermined travel of the latter, the adjustment device (66) incorporating a sleeve (104) firmly fixed in rotation to the nut (70) and cooperating with annular control piston (80) which is capable of moving so as to be sealed relative to the screw (68) and relative to the brake actuator (34), the control piston (80) immobilizing the sleeve (104) in rotation and in translation wh

Abstract: In a paper sheet collecting apparatus according to the present invention, paper sheets successively fed from a conveying path are guided and collected into a collecting chamber, held between vanes of a rotating vane wheel, is provided with a separator which can rock around the rotating shaft of the vane wheel and also move in the radial direction of the rotating shaft. In distributing the paper sheets, the separator is rocked through a predetermined angle and then moved radially, so that succeeding paper sheets guided by the vane wheel are temporarily and assortatively collected on the separator.

Abstract: Sheet-like products coming off a folder are firstly transported some distance before being caused to overlap. In order to slow down the products to cause this to take place and to arrange them in a perfectly regular feed stream without being damaged, the products are engaged by grippers that are moved along a preferably arcuate path on a support in the course of which the products are slowed down by the grippers to the speed of a delivery belt on which the products are then deposited.

Abstract: An improved paper gripper bar is described. The upper and lower portions are made from extruded aluminum and hinge together for their entire length for greater stiffness. Two or three spring clips provide a bias for closing the bar. The paper is held between the bottom ends of the spring clips and the upper bar when the bar is in the closed position. Finally, the clips are assembled into grooves in the upper and lower portions so that no additional parts are required to maintain the gripper bar parts in their proper positions.

Abstract: Throughput of a sheet feeding apparatus is substantially increased by sequentially feeding sheets in multiple overlapping cycles. Special start, stop and missing sheet sequences are provided to ensure that all documents in the overlapping cycles are properly assembled without missing sheets.

Abstract: A paper feeding device for a copier or the like enables reliable feeding of thicker paper products by providing at least one pivotable holding arm carrying a paper pressing member and a contacted adjacent elastic member. The feeding of the topmost paper effects deformation of the elastic member until a gap is formed sufficient to pass one sheet, following which the sheet is advanced. Further sheets are prevented from being passed together with the first sheet by the size of the gap and frictional resistance. The elastic member may be formed of an elastomer such as natural rubber and may include an upper hollow defining a contact surface of arcuate shape.

Abstract: Apparatus for registering a copy sheet prior to feeding the sheet to the image-transfer station of an electrophotographic copier. Opposing pairs of relatively rigid feed rollers are arranged on shafts in alternating relationship with opposing pairs of relatively compliant feed rollers, which are of somewhat larger diameter than the rigid rollers so as to form nips of appreciably greater extent in the direction of feed. Registration gates mounted for rotation on one of the roller shafts through slipping couplings are selectively restrained against rotation with the roller shaft either in a non-blocking position out of the feed path or in a blocking position within the nip area of the compliant rollers but upstream of the nip area of the rigid rollers.

Abstract: An automatic document feeder, comprising a document supply section for supplying documents one by one toward a document platen, a belt feed section for transferring a supplied document to a predetermined position on the document platen to enable an image forming operation, and a document discharge section for discharging onto a document discharge tray a document fed from the belt feed section upon completion of the image forming operation, is attached so that it is upwardly turnable with respect to the document platen so as to enable manual and automatic document settings to be made selectively. Further, the automatic document feeder is designed to discriminate between manual and automatic document setting modes and to detect the presence or absence of a document at a predetermined position in the automatic document feeder when the automatic document setting mode is selected. The automatic document feeder is driven with a predetermined timing for the setting of documents.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sheet feeder for the individual feeding of sheets to a sheet treating machine. A first sheet pile is carried by a main pile table, and sheets from this sheet pile can be fed by a sheet separating device, optionally via a first feed table, to the sheet treating machine. A further sheet pile is carried by an auxiliary pile table. Sheets can be fed by a second sheet separating device from this further sheet pile to the sheet treating machine, again optionally via a second feed table. Using this arrangement, in place of the sheets from the first pile table, sheets from the auxiliary pile table can be fed to the sheet treating machine without interruption, as the sheet feed from the two piles is carried out in the same rhythm. Preferably a control circuit is used to meter out a selected number of prerun sheets from the auxiliary pile table followed without interruption by another selected number of continuous running sheets.

Abstract: A copy sheet-feeding apparatus comprises a switch and control mechanism. The switch detects an open state of a sheet cover capable of exposing a stack of copy sheet and a closed state of the cover sheet capable of enclosing the stack, and generates signals denoting the open and closed states of the sheet cover. The control mechanism controls a drive mechanism for moving a sheet rest supporting the stack of copy sheets between a first position capable of receiving the copy sheets and a second position capable of supplying the sheet to a copying press. Receiving the signal denoting the open state of the sheet cover from the switch, the control mechanism causes the sheet rest to be moved to the first position, and, receiving the signal denoting the closed state thereof, causes the sheet rest to be moved to the second position.