Abstract: An electromechanical device for transmitting a binary ON-OFF or an analog signal through a rotary connection between two parts of a mechanical system. It is applicable to rotary connections in general but particularly as a warning system for work platforms which employ swivelable casters having operator actuated locks to prevent movement of the platform during work operations. The swivelable caster includes a lock or brake and means for engaging and disengaging the lock. The caster includes a hollow shaft which allows pivoting of the caster The shaft is journaled in the platform base and includes an axially extending actuator operated by the lock or brake actuator to operate an electrical switch carried by a work platform and mounted near the caster shaft for operation whenever the caster brake is engaged regardless of the swivel orientation. Discrete ball bearings are trapped in the hollow shaft and displaced by a wire cable moving between the trapped balls.

Abstract: An improved self contained elevating table suitable for loading dock and the like load lifting operations. The platform is supported by at least one pair of scissor legs the opening of which is accelerated and amplified by a cylinder-operated toggle lever subassembly the opposite ends of which are pivotally connected between the outer end portion of one leg and a bracket mounted for movement with the other leg at a point spaced radially from the common midlength pivot access of the pair of legs. The roller-equipped pivot interconnecting the toggle lever and cylinder is offset from a line through the remotely positioned pivot axis of the cylinder and toggle subassembly, and this roller cooperates with a ramp or other constraint on the apparatus to accelerate and amplify initial opening of the scissor legs from the collapsed horizontal positions thereof.