Positive Lock Patents (Class 188/60)
  • Patent number: 11772613
    Abstract: A securing device for securing a standstill of a vehicle, including a securing body having a bearing device for a movable bearing on the vehicle between a securing position (SP) and a release position (FP), and a counter-securing body having a fastening portion for a force-transmitting fastening to a wheel shaft of the vehicle. The counter-securing body includes at least one form-fitting portion for a form-fitting latching of a pawl portion of the securing body in its securing position (SP) and a release of the pawl portion of the securing body in its release position (FP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Bott, Bernhard Schweizer
  • Patent number: 8210324
    Abstract: A device for braking an elongated rotating body, includes at least two parts with coaxial conical surfaces, able to be slipped onto the body, and one, a so-called male cone, mounted integrally in rotation with the body, and the other, a so-called female cone, mounted fixed in rotation relative to the body. The female cone assumes the shape of a wheel with an axial bore with a conical bearing, and the male cone has a center recess. The cones are controlled in terms of axial relative movement by a control element. The male cone is, when the cones are close to one another, corresponding to the braking position, housed inside the axial bore of the female cone, with its conical external peripheral surface being held, by contact with a support, with the conical bearing of the female cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: France Reducteurs
    Inventor: Robert Blanchard
  • Patent number: 7926624
    Abstract: A cylinder block brake for a hydrostatic transmission or transaxle is provided. A pawl and return spring are located in a housing adjacent to a motor cylinder block. The pawl has a first, biased position where it is not engaged to the motor cylinder block and a second, braking position where it is engaged to the motor cylinder block. A brake actuation shaft which engages the pawl is located in and supported, at least partially, by at least one housing member. The brake actuation shaft is retained in the housing through the interface of features on the brake actuation shaft with a housing member, the pawl and the center section. The pawl may be installed in a first position or in a second, mirrored position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Hydro-Gear Limited Partnership
    Inventor: Michael W. Taylor
  • Patent number: 7810613
    Abstract: A cart braking device includes a swivel unit, a shaft unit and a braking unit which has a central shaft, an orientation member, a braking member and a base. The central shaft is coupled with the orientation member and has an elastic piece for moving the central shaft upward. A bottom of the orientation member has an orientation gear and a top of the braking member has a fixation gear corresponding to the orientation gear. The braking member is disposed in the base and includes two braking pads. An elastic member is disposed between the base and the braking member, and can move the braking member away from the base. When the braking pads are pressed against the wheel, the cart braking device stops the rotation of the wheel. When the orientation gear is engaged with the fixation gear, the cart braking device prevents the wheel from changing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Inventor: Ching-Sung Lin
  • Patent number: 7549518
    Abstract: A brake for retaining a mobile carriage on which apparatus such as storage facilities are located. The brake includes a pivot member with a release end and a locking end and with a claw at the locking end. The claw engages a slotted member when the locking end is depressed. The opposite end of the pivot member from the locking end is the release end. Adjacent the release end is a slot which rides on a stoop pin to prevent the release end from being depressed below the horizontal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Inventor: Lance Pennington
  • Patent number: 7261378
    Abstract: A locking apparatus for a moveable component of an aircraft seat. The locking apparatus includes a housing for being slidably received in a track, a first pair of opposed cams pivotally mounted in the housing, and a release member. The cams are moved between a lock position where the cams prevent the housing from sliding within the track and a release position. The release member is selectively moveable between a first position where the cams are maintained in the lock position and a second position where the cams are maintained in the release position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: BE Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Brian Dowty, William Edward Haushalter
  • Patent number: 6726226
    Abstract: A wheel stop device of a golf cart includes a fixing seat, a connecting rod, a spring, a fixing ring, and a drive member. The fixing seat includes a main body, an outer jacket, and two opposite lugs. The connecting rod has a shank having a first end formed with a stop end and a second end formed with a screw portion. The drive member includes a press portion and a drive portion. The press portion has a front end face formed with an end face and an oblique end face and has a sidle protruded with two spaced opposite oblong ears and a clamping recess formed between the two spaced opposite oblong ears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Inventor: Chong-Yong Liu
  • Patent number: 6644443
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for transporting human beings, comprising a frame, at least one tire extending in a peripheral direction around a wheel with a certain amount of elasticity, and a braking system. The braking power of the braking system is substantially independent from the elasticity of the tires. The invention also relates to a method for arresting said transportation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: DT Swiss AG
    Inventor: Gerrit Jäger
  • Patent number: 6595332
    Abstract: A brake for retaining a mobile carriage on which storage facilities are constructed and having a slidable actuating assembly with a claw which engages a slotted member when the actuating assembly is depressed. The mobile carriage is mounted on a platform with a track in which the mobile carriage rolls and with a channel in which the slotted member is secured. A back plate is used to mount the brake on the mobile carriage. A cover is mounted on the back plate and an actuating assembly extends through and is slidably mounted in the pair of openings in the cover so that the actuating assembly may move to and from the platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Inventor: Lance Pennington
  • Patent number: 6336528
    Abstract: A brake device for a linear guide comprising a carrier body (1) which is movable on a guide rail (2) and incorporates brake shoes (10) which act on the guide rail (2), and a brake piston (8) which is arranged for displacement by a pressure medium in a brake cylinder (9) of the carrier body (1), the brake device further comprising an energy reservoir in form of a compression spring (11) which acts on the pressure medium that is limited by the brake piston (8), a piston/cylinder assembly is arranged between the compression spring (11) and the brake piston (8), which assembly comprises a unitary control element comprising a displaceable, larger diameter control piston (5) arranged in a control pressure chamber (4) to act on the compression spring (11) and a displaceable, smaller diameter high pressure piston (6) arranged in a high pressure chamber (3) to act on the brake piston (8), a pressure connection (13) for supply of pressure medium into the control pressure chamber (4) being disposed on the carrier body (
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Assignee: Ina Walzlager Schaeffler oHG
    Inventor: Dietmar Rudy
  • Patent number: 6164420
    Abstract: A locking arrangement for a vehicle in which a first locking element is non-rotatably connected with a vehicle wheel, and a triggerable second locking element is releasably engaged with the first locking element. The first locking element is a brake disk provided with recesses. The second locking element is a locking pawl which can be operated by a triggerable operating element against the restoring force of a restoring device and engages in the recess of the brake disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Horst Fleischer
  • Patent number: 5180036
    Abstract: This invention is a cam operated rail clamping device for preventing movement of a structure on a rail comprising a base, a vertically disposed post secured to and projecting upwardly from the base, a tube rotatably and slidably mounted on the post, an air (or hydraulically) operated lift cylinder for raising the tube, a vertically disposed beam extending upwardly from the base and secured thereto, a horizontally disposed flange secured to the lower end of the tube, a clamping jaw carried by the flange and provided with a high point and a plurality of teeth for engagement with a first side of a rail, the flange being mounted for rotation about the post to bring the high point of the jaw into wedging action with the first side of the rail when the flange engages a top portion of the rail, a wearing shoe carried by the base for engagement with a second side of the rail, and a microswitch for indicating the position of the clamping jaw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1993
    Inventor: Ronald J. Boben
  • Patent number: 4452342
    Abstract: A braking mechanism for a rotating shaft includes a corrugated wheel keyed to the shaft. A polyurethane pad mounted on a spring-biased plunger contacts the wheel corrugations creating non-permanent mating formations in the pad. Thus, upon contact between the two, the wheel and pad mesh thereby preventing wheel rotation until the pad is withdrawn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1984
    Assignee: The Singer Company
    Inventor: Arnold Schindel
  • Patent number: 4296867
    Abstract: A device for locking a slewing portion of a cargo crane relative to a stationary portion thereof, comprising stops arranged respectively on these portions of the crane, and appliances for holding these stops in contact with each other at locking. The stops are rigidly secured on appropriate portions of the crane so that in the process of locking these stops are arranged at a certain distance from each other, and each appliance for holding these stops in contact is a drive-operated wedge to be placed between these stops in the process of locking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1981
    Inventors: Iosif M. Berkhin, Robert A. Gudze, Vasily I. Kekalo, Nikolai N. Panasenko, Viktor I. Podbeltsev, Zinaida D. Tsypina, Vladislav N. Mukhin
  • Patent number: 3986458
    Abstract: A train comprises a towing car and at least one free car connected to the towing car and having a car body. At least one of the free cars is a load-carrying free car, which comprises two pairs of guide rollers and carries a load suspended from the car body. A track carries the train and comprises a lower track rail, which has an upwardly facing backing surface engageable by the guide rollers. A driving chain extends along the track and is operable to move along the track. Coupling is provided for releasably coupling the towing car to the driving chain for movement therewith along the track in such a direction that the towing car precedes the at least one free car.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1976
    Assignee: Pohlig-Heckel-Bleichert Vereinigte Maschinenfabriken Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Georg Kling