Abstract: A furnishing is fitted with a rotating panel (5), in particular a transparent panel. The panel is mounted in the furnishing via at least a hinge (20), wherein the hinge comprises a first hinge part (21) for attaching close to the panel and a second hinge part (22) for attaching to the panel. A receivable member (25) extends from one of the two hinge parts (21,22) and is received in a receiving cavity (35) in another of the two hinge parts in order to connect the two hinge parts pivotally to each other. The respective other hinge part (22) comprises a holder part (30) with a holder body (33) which is accommodated while allowing freedom of movement in the receiving cavity. The holder body (33) comprises a bore in which the receiving member is received.

Abstract: A safety device for a glove port includes a hatch that is rotatably fixable by a hinge arrangement to an outer frame of the glove port so as to rotate between a closing position and an opening position for preventing or allowing access to the glove port, respectively. The device further includes a sensor associated associable with the glove port and arranged for engaging and/or detecting an abutment portion of the hatch in the closing condition and generating an alarm signal when the abutment portion does not engage the sensor, in particular when the hatch is not in the closing position.

Abstract: A motor vehicle door hinge, having a pillar fitting able to be mounted on a vehicle body, and a door fitting able to be mounted on a motor vehicle door, which are connected to each other in an articulated manner by a hinge pin connected to either the pillar fitting or the door fitting in a rotation-resistant manner and to the remaining one of the pillar fitting or the door fitting in an articulated manner, and an arresting unit having a detent body carrier connected to the hinge pin in a rotation-resistant manner and radially extending to the latter and having a detent body, and a detent element adjustable on the other one of the pillar fitting or the door fitting with respect to the detent body carrier, coaxially arranged with respect to the hinge pin axis and in engagement with the detent body and including at least one detent notch, and arranged within a housing surrounding the hinge pin and the detent body carrier.

Abstract: An improved top pin assembly is provided for a traffic door which is side-mountable to the door without the necessity of integrated the top pin assembly within the interior of the door panel.

Abstract: A hinge, for automatically-closing a door which opens in both directions, includes a cylinder (2); an operating rod (3) to be rotatable and restricted from moving in the longitudinal direction; two substantially V-shaped grooves (33) provided on an outer periphery of the operating rod (3) in the cylinder (2) to oppose to each other; two spheres (55) provided engage the substantially V-shaped grooves (33); an upper piston (5) engaged with the spheres (55); a compression coil spring (4) disposed between the upper piston (5) and an upper end portion of the cylinder (2) and configured to urge the upper piston (5) to the other end side of the cylinder (2), and a fluid pressure shock absorbing mechanism configured to absorb a shock caused by the movement of the upper piston 5 to the other end side with a liquid pressure.

Abstract: An improved top pin assembly is provided for a traffic door which integrally is provided with a hold open device for maintaining the door in either one of opposite fully open positions.

Abstract: A hinge for a hingedly movable sash in a window having a frame, including a track assembly having a track and a shoe engageable with the track and reciprocally movable along the track. The shoe presents a first rolling member at a first portion thereof and a bearing portion at a second portion. The shoe is shiftable between a window closed configuration in which the bearing portion contacts the track and transmits loads from the track to the sash arm and a window moving configuration in which the rolling member contacts the track and transmits loads from the track to the sash arm and rolls along the track as the shoe translates along the track.

Abstract: An automatic door closing hinge is configured in such a manner that first balls (43) are engaged with a first cam groove (35) formed on an outer peripheral surface of an operating rod in a cylinder (2) at opposed positions so as to have a substantially V-shape at opposed positions thereof, the first balls (43) are engaged with a compression ring (4) urged downward by a compression coil spring (5), the movement of the first balls (43) with respect to the first cam groove (35) is in conjunction with the movement of the compression ring, second balls (65) are engaged with a second cam groove (36) formed under the first cam groove (35) and having substantially the same shape as the first cam groove (35), the second balls (65) are engaged with the piston (6), the movement of the second balls (65) with respect to the second cam groove (36) is in conjunction with the movement of the piston, and air on the lower side of the piston (6) in the cylinder is gradually flowed out according to the movement of the piston.

Abstract: A low-energy locking hinge mechanism operable with a spacecraft to support a deployable device, and to facilitate the deployment and locking of the deployable device, the hinge mechanism comprising: (a) a support base configured to couple to a structure of the spacecraft; (b) means for securing a deployable device to the support base, the deployable device being configured to rotate about a pivot axis; (c) a one-way clutch supported about the support base and operable with the means for securing, the one-way clutch being configured to facilitate one-way rotation of the deployable device from a stowed position to a deployed position, and to lock the deployable device in the deployed position, the one-way clutch having an inherent actuatable locking function configured to prevent backward motion; and (d) an actuation member operable with the one-way clutch to deploy the deployable device from the stowed position to the deployed position, the actuation member comprising an actuation energy sufficient to actuate

Abstract: A hinge assembly for joining a cover to a main body of a folding phone, includes a housing (1), a cam (2), a cam follower (3), a spring (4), and an end cover (5). The cam and the cam follower are received in the housing with a connector (21) of the cam extending through a rear end (11) of the housing. The cam follower has a cylindrical main body (30) with a protrusion (31) extending from each opposite end thereof. The cylindrical main body can move along a cam surface (20) of the cam for being received in valleys (22) of the cam surface while the protrusions sliding in the housing. The end cover is inserted into the housing for locking the hinge components in the housing. The spring is compressively coupled between the cam follower and the end cover.

Abstract: In this incubator, when the angle of a door to a nursing window of a hood is smaller than a rotation restricting angle, door rotation restricting means restrains the rotation of the door in an opening direction. Because of this reason, when the angle of the door is smaller than the rotation restricting angle, the door is not rotated in the opening direction beyond the rotation restricting angle and the angle of the door does not exceed the rotation restricting angle, even if the door is pushed by an accommodated baby from the inside of the hood under the state wherein the door is not fixed in the closing state by a door fixing device. Therefore, even if opening and closing operation for the nursing window is not securely performed, the environment inside the hood hardly deviates from the physiological environment appropriate for the accommodated baby to say the least.

Abstract: A hinge for notebook computers is disclosed which includes a cam mechanism to keep the lid closed when the computer is not in use and a cooperatively operating friction mechanism to maintain the lid's position when in use. The friction mechanism operates in conjunction with the cam mechanism to enhance the operational characteristics thereof. Previous attempts at cam hinges for laptops demanded that the cam mechanism, which provides torque in opposition to the frictional torque as the lid nears the closed position, be capable of overwhelming the friction mechanism in order to perform its intended function. This placed a strain on the cam mechanism, resulting in the need for a stronger heavier hinge, and stronger heavier attachment points in the laptop. By controlling the magnitude of the friction by substantially reducing it at the moment of cam engagement, the cam hinge becomes a far more practical device.

Abstract: A method of completing a subterranean well and associated apparatus therefor provide reduced trips into the well, efficient operation, reduced costs, and increased functionality in completions where production of fluids from a lateral wellbore and a parent wellbore is desired. In one disclosed embodiment, the invention permits simultaneous conveying into the well of multiple tubing strings, the tubing strings being automatically directed to their respective wellbores. A selective deflection member is capable of selecting an appropriate tubing string and deflecting it into a lateral wellbore, while permitting another tubing string to pass axially therethrough to a lower parent wellbore.

Abstract: A gravity swing door hinge includes flange guards for protecting the hinge from damage and a telescopic cover assembly for protecting the cam and eliminating pinch points between cam parts and between the door and the hinge body. The hinge may be flush mounted to a door jamb while providing a broad range of pivotal movement on each side of its closed position.

Abstract: Improved cam hardware for use with a self-positioning door. The cam is attached to the door mounting post by a threaded connection and has a lower surface which is symmetrically inclined about a high point. The lower surface is contacted by a cam follower roller which is rotatably attached to the door jamb. When the door is opened and released, the cam coacts with the cam follower roller to cause the door to return to its original position where the high point is mated with the roller.

Abstract: A counterbalancing system (30) for an inwardly/outwardly moving door (20) pivotable about an inclined hinge axis between fully closed and fully opened positions wherein the door (20) moves: (i) upslope through angle .beta. and downslope through angle .theta. as it opens; and (ii), upslope through angle .theta. and downslope through angle .beta. as it closes. The door (20) is hinged to a torque tube assembly (25) coincident with the hinge axis; a radial cam (38) having a profiled cam face (36) is mounted on the torque tube assembly (25) for rotation through the angles .beta. and .theta.; and, springs (31, 32) are mounted within a housing (34) having a reciprocable piston (44) and a cam follower (35) carried thereby for biasing the follower (35) into engagement with the cam face (36). As door (20) moves downwardly through angles .beta. and .theta., the springs (31, 32) are compressed and energy is stored therein. As door (20) is manually shifted upslope through angles .beta. and .theta.

Abstract: The frame of an ironing press has flexible abutments made of steel against which a support for roller tracks rests in order to assure a stable position for a lever arm of the press when the press is in an open or closed position. The flexibility of the abutments of the frame make it possible to maintain stable positions of the lever arm during the ironing of fabrics of usual thickness or fabrics of greater than usual thickness.

Abstract: A compact, cam operated, counterbalance system (30) is provided for the torque tube assembly (25) associated with a moveable hinged structural member (20) of the type hingedly connected to a fixed structural member and adapted to pivot about an inclined hinge axis in which the counterbalance system includes: (i) a cylindrical cam (31) surrounding a torque tube (38) and defining an axially presented continuous cylindrical cam surface (32) formed by a plurality of axially presented curved ramps (32a, 32b); (ii) cam follower means (34, 35, 36) mounted concentrically about the torque tube (38); (iii) a compression spring (42) mounted concentrically about the torque tube (38) for continuously biasing one of the cylindrical cam (31) or the cam follower means (34, 35, 36) axially towards the other; (iv) one of the cylindrical cam (31) and the cam follower means (34, 35, 36) being rigidly mounted on the fixed structural member (22); (v) the other of the cylindrical cam (31) and the cam follower means (34, 35, 36) bei

Abstract: A self-closing door hinge for a curtain door mounted within a frame consisting of a channel having a double helical track and a roller on said helical track which is returned to a pre-selected position after movement in either direction by compression of a spring thereby moving an arm carrying a curtain door connected to said channel to a preselected position.