Abstract: An apparatus for fixing the longitudinal position of a shaft, e.g., a valve stem, within the bore of a body, e.g., a valve body comprising a shaft having a plurality of peripherally extending, generally equally spaced, discrete grooves, the grooved portion of the shaft being received in the bore, a stop being provided internally of the bore, a washer having an inwardly tapered abutment surface engaging the stop, a split ring received on the shaft and engaging the inwardly tapered abutment surface, the apparatus further including a gland assembly including a second washer for engagement with the first washer, the gland assembly urging the second washer against the first washer, the split ring being forced into engagement with the abutment surface and into a groove adjacent the abutment surface.

Abstract: A structure, which interlocks a relatively thin sheet of material with a relatively heavy member, for example, a hub member with a sheet metal fan structure, comprises the hub on one end having a groove dividing the hub into an inner sleeve-like shoulder having a length substantially greater than the thickness of the sheet-like member, the groove has a wider base than the throat adjacent a second outwardly extending shoulder on which the member rests. The sleeve is cut into a plurality of segments with alternate segments being deformed to force a portion of the edge of the sheet-like member into the groove to form a spline connection with the hub.

Abstract: A joint element for securing a speedometer shaft is disclosed which can be readily cut to allow removal of the shaft without damage to other parts when the speedometer is disassembled for service. The joint element comprises a ring of a flexible plastic material with a tapered edge on an inner surface thereof. The convex edge corresponds to a circular tapered recess on the shaft, and notches in said convex edge permit the ring to be pushed onto the shaft until said convex edge mates with said recess and permit the ring to be easily cut from the speedometer shaft after the ring is installed on the shaft.

Abstract: The present invention includes a bushing having an eccentric inner bore, used for adjusting camber and caster in conventional vehicle steering structures. The bushing assembly is preset to provide a desired camber and caster adjustment when mounted on the steering structure in a predefined orientation.

Abstract: A tubular main bar, internally threaded, with buttress teeth, from each end, with a stop in the middle, and an inner bar inserted in each end, having a single tooth element, spring pressed radially outwardly, forming a buttress tooth engaging the buttress teeth in the main bar. The inner bars can be pushed inwardly, but must be threaded, or turned, out. The weights are fitted on the inner bar at each end, against the end of the main bar and a locking collar interlocks with the outer end of each inner bar, and holds the weights. The outer surface of the locking collar and of the inner bar lie in a common plane, defining the end of the dumbbell. The inner bars cannot be threaded completely out of the main bar, except by special manipulation of the tooth element in the inner bar, through an inconsipicuous opening.

Abstract: A freewheel for a cycle or the like, comprising a hollow body of generally circular shape which receives on its periphery at least one gearwheel retained laterally between two flanges, means also being provided for securing the gearwheel to the body in a manner precluding relative rotation.At least one of the flanges comprises a metal part which is accommodated, by permanent deformation, in a groove on the periphery of the body.

Abstract: An evaporative cooler blower rotor-shaft securing hub adapted to re-secure a failed blower rotor bushing attaching to the blower rotor central shaft comprising a pair of steel straps having a half circle formed in each, said steel straps adapted to encircle and hold the central shaft in fixed relationship, and a pair of concentric half circle flanges with attached right angle brackets, said right angle brackets adapted to be attached to said central shaft securing steel straps, and said concentric half circle flanges adapted to be secured to said blower rotor bushing whereby the concentric half circle flanges secure the blower rotor bushing to the steel straps encircling the central shaft, and the steel straps secure against the central shaft whereupon the blower rotor bushing is re-secured to the central shaft.

Abstract: A connecting structure for connecting a ceramic shaft to a metallic shaft comprises an arc body having a tapered portion in cross section, the arc body being fitted around a ceramic shaft, a member inserted by the ceramic shaft and placed adjacent the arc body at its one side, a metallic shaft placed adjacent the arc body at its other side, at least one of the member inserted by the ceramic shaft and the metallic shaft being in contact with the tapered portion and a fastening means for fastening the member and the metallic shaft to clamp the arc body.

Abstract: A tapered shaft retention apparatus is used with a shaft having a shoulder, a cylindrical surface, a smooth conically tapered surface, and an annular member such as an inner race of a bearing assembly mounted on the cylindrical surface. A sleeve is mounted on the shaft with an adjustment nut screwthreadably mounted thereon, and an internally tapered hub is mounted on the tapered surface in abutment with the nut with a preselected press fit. This assures the transmission of torque through the hub and positions the bearing assembly on the shaft. During assembly the hub is initially installed at an ambient temperature and the adjustment nut set at a preselected clearance therefrom, the hub is then removed and thermally expanded and reinstalled in abutment with the nut to establish the desired press fit.

Abstract: A polymer socket is secured to a metallic conduit by snapping a split polymer sleeve around the conduit with a flange on the sleeve engaged within a groove in the conduit, and then securing the sleeve against spreading. The securing function is provided by an annular insert bonded within the sleeve. A throughbore within the sleeve provides the socket.

Abstract: In a torque transmitting assembly including a driven member and a driving member, one having teeth thereon extending parallel to the rotational axis and the other having teeth thereon extending obliquely to the rotational axis, an annular member is interposed which also has teeth which are parallel to the rotational axis and oblique to the rotational axis for engaging with the corresponding teeth of the driving and driven members in order to place them in torque transmitting engagement with each other. The annular member is formed from a deformable metallic material and the obliquely extending teeth extend relative to the parallel teeth at an angle of between 15.degree. and 45.degree..

Abstract: A shearing machine for cutting up material of any kind comprises a shearing blade carrier which is vertically slidable in a closed frame, being moved by a cylinder-piston assembly fixed in a crosshead of the frame. In order to simplify assembly and dismantling of the cylinder, the cylinder which is fixed in the crosshead, is supported against reaction forces from the blade carrier towards the crosshead by a divided ring on the side of the crosshead facing towards the blade carrier, the divided ring, engaging in a circumferential recess in the outside of the cylinder surface and also partly into an opening in the side of the crosshead facing towards the blade carrier and the cylinder is also fixed, on the side of the crosshead remote from the blade carrier by a second ring which bears against the crosshead with a prestress so that the cylinder is held under tension in the crosshead between the two rings.

Abstract: Oppositely facing surfaces have grooves in one of the surfaces and low coefficient of friction inserts in the grooves. The inserts have a thickness greater than the depth of the grooves so as to project from the grooves when seated therein for bearing against a facing surface and maintaining the two surfaces in spaced apart relation. Such inserts provide a reduced friction relation between the two surfaces whereby the two surfaces can be readily rotated between a working condition having a thrust load therebetween and a loosened non-working condition. Preferably, two or more of the grooves and inserts are provided, the inserts being held in the grooves by distorted portions in the walls of the grooves.

Abstract: A pull-apart mounting hub for mounting a scrubbing pad or the like to a drive disc on a power-driven scrubbing machine or the like. The hub has two parts: a base mounted to the drive disc, the base having a cylindrical collar and an annular shoulder; and a split-ring retainer. The split-ring retainer is resilient and generally cylindrical, and includes a retaining flange extending radially outwardly for retaining the pad, an annular lip engageable with the annular shoulder of the collar to lock the two pieces together, and a tab adjacent the split for urging the lip adjacent the split out of engagement with the annular shoulder of the collar to enable the retainer to be removed from the collar.

Abstract: An improved forms feed mechanism for bidirectionally moving an edge perforated record material, while maintaining the same relative position between the drive shaft and the driven member in both directions of drive shaft rotation, so that printing may be effected in both directions. This may be accomplished by biasing the driving and driven surfaces toward one another.

Abstract: A dumbbell including a bar having at each end a plurality of longitudinal grooves, of different lengths, closed at their inner ends and opening at their outer ends into a cross groove. The cross groove is defined on its outer edge by a rib at the end edge of the bar. An inlet groove opens through the end of the bar, and lets into the adjacent longitudinal groove. An inner collar slides on the bar, having a dowel pin riding in the grooves and positionable in a selected groove to accommodate a corresponding number of weights. A square headed bolt threads into the end of the bar, and the locking collar has a square hole enabling it to be slid over the bolt head, and a square socket coincident with the hole, receiving the bolt head upon turning the collar 45.degree., and the collar can then rotate the bolt.

Abstract: A throttle valve shaft projecting from a boss on an internal combustion engine throttle body has a nut which is adjustable for establishing a selected clearance between the nut and the boss to thereby limit end float or axial displacement of the shaft. A lever or other retainer secured to the shaft has an interfering engagement with the nut to prevent rotation of the nut about the shaft and thereby maintain the selected clearance between the nut and the boss.

Abstract: An agricultural tine assembly is disclosed which uses a series of linkages to transfer loading from the tine as deflection of the tine occurs upon striking an obstacle during tilling. There is also disclosed means to adjust the spring loading on an agricultural tine.

Abstract: A float stopper is attached to the free end of a thermoplastic switch case constituting part of a liquid level sensor by forming the free end of the switch case into a hollow, cylindrically shaped projection, fitting the float stopper over the projection through a hole formed in the stopper and, forcibly inserting a caulking tool, heated to a temperature which is lower than the melting point of the thermoplastic material constituting the switch case, into the cylindrically shaped projection to soften and spread the projection until its outer surface abuts against the rim of the hole formed in the float stopper. Upon curing the spread portion of the caulking projection holds the float stopper rigidly in place with excellent mechanical strength.

Abstract: A coupling for intercoupling at least two orthogonal bars or tubes includes an annular member surrounding one of the bars and rigidly fastened thereto. A loose annular member is also positioned on the bar and cooperates with angled guide surfaces. The other bars are provided with links having recesses and projections which cooperate with recesses and projections of the annular members. The rotation of the loose annular member results in it locking the links to the bar, by the cooperation of the loose annular member and the guide surfaces.

Abstract: A fastening means for securing an annular first machine element against axial displacement on an annular second machine element, said second machine element having a shoulder against which the first machine element abuts and an annular groove spaced from said shoulder comprising a first ring member circumscribing the second machine element and having one axial end face confronting and abutting an axial end face of said first machine element and being formed to define an annular pocket, a second one-piece ring made of a deformable material which is initially sleeve-shape and is adapted to engage in the annular pocket and be deformed in a radial direction as a result of axially applied pressure during assembly into the annular pocket in such a way that a portion thereof engages in the annular groove in the second machine element to secure the two in place.

Abstract: An apparatus for holding an elongted shaft, e.g., a mill roll within a sleeve, e.g., mill chuck sleeve comprises first and second collar portions capable of being removably joined together and affixed to the shaft; a spacer adapted to be placed between the joined collar portions and the sleeve in abutting relation to the end of the sleeve; and a plurality of both first and second bolts adapted to pass through holes in the first and second collar portions, respectively, to contact the spacer, thereby maintaining the abutting relation between the spacer and at least a portion of the sleeve.

Abstract: A print element mounting apparatus for attaching and removing a print disc to and from a selector shaft in a printing machine. The apparatus comprises a finger-grip cap which is fixed on the print disc and a coupling device carried by the print disc. The coupling device includes a generally circular shaped unitary flex member made from yieldable half-sections which are continually urged towards one another by a spring wrapped about the flex member. Each half-section includes a pair of pressure surfaces which are curved in complementary relation to form a biased opening at the central portion of the flex member. The selector shaft is fabricated to include tapered surfaces that operate in conjunction with the pressure surfaces to afford snap-action operation during interchange of the print disc accomplished through a push or a pull force axially applied to the cap.

Abstract: A retainer for securing the compressor rotor (172) to the compressor-turbine shaft (160) of a turbocharger includes a retaining sleeve (180) having an aperture therethrough for mounting the sleeve onto the shaft adjacent the compressor rotor to prevent movement of the rotor on the shaft in the direction of the sleeve. The sleeve has an inner bore (180a) having a diameter forming an interference fit on the shaft such that the sleeve prevents movement of the compressor rotor on the shaft. In one embodiment, a lug (300) extends from the sleeve (180) and engages the compressor rotor to transmit a rotational force from the shaft to the rotor through the sleeve and lug.

Abstract: A full-floating axle drive assembly for propelling a vehicle includes a shaft having a splined end to which a splined drive member is axially and non-rotatably secured. The drive member is secured to the splined end of the shaft between the bottom of the shaft splines and a forged flange end. In a preferred embodiment, the shaft extends through an axle tube on which a wheel hub is fully supported by bearings. The drive member is secured to the wheel hub which is rotated thereby about the axle tube.

Abstract: A clutch release device has a pressure plate mounted on a sliding sleeve, and a stationary ring of a bearing abut one side of the pressure plate. A clutch lever abuts the other side of the pressure plate, and is held from axial removal by a ring having a flexible outer rim. The holding ring is held to the pressure plate by a flange on the sliding sleeve. The clutch lever has a central aperture fitted over a central conical portion of the pressure plate, the aperture having a pair of inwardly directed projections. The outer diameter of the holding ring is greater than the distance between the facing ends of the projections.

Abstract: In devices, such as well tools, components which must support heavy loads are connected by a simple fastening device capable of transferring the heavy load from one component to the other, with the load being accepted by the fastening means in compression, and with the fastening means occupying only a small radial space.

Abstract: Means to mount an element to be powered on a drive shaft are shown. The eent to be powered fits against a shoulder on the shaft. A retainer ring is next slipped onto the shaft against the element, and a snap ring is put in place in a groove in the shaft. Three plugs in the retainer ring are screwed against the element to clamp the assembly longitudinally between the shoulder and the snap ring.

Abstract: A method for effecting a measurement of the unbalance of a small weight rotor body such as a impeller or turbine wheel for a turbo-charger in an internal combustion engine. A shaft, on which the rotor body is inserted and which is on both ends thereof supported on a pair of bearing units, is rotated while the rotor body is held on the shaft under an elastic frictional force. The unbalance is at every angular position of the rotor body measured during the rotation of the shaft.

Abstract: The joint is formed between two mutually perpendicular tubes by seating a washer in one tube, a nut within the other tube and by passing a bolt through the washer into threaded engagement with the nut. The resulting joint is hidden from view. A spreader bar is formed by joining the ends of two tubular sections within each other after each section is joined to a tube.

Abstract: The expandable annular locking device is particularly applicable for use on mill roll necks, shaft and the like. The annular locking device is adapted to be disposed in an annular groove of a mill roll meck or shaft for retaining one or more sleeve-like members, anti-friction bearings, seals, spacers or the like together as a unit against a fixed abutment of the shaft for maintaining the member or plurality of members in proper working or spaced relationship on the shaft. The annular locking device comprises a pair of arcuate members, each having a pair of flat surfaces. Each arcuate member portends an arc less than 180.degree. and their one ends are pivotally interconnected by an arcuate link whose opposite ends are nested within opposed slots of said members and pivoted thereto.

Abstract: The expandable annular locking device is particularly applicable for use on mill roll necks, shafts and the like. The annular locking device is adapted to be disposed in an annular groove of a mill roll neck or shaft for retaining one or more sleeve-like members, anti-friction bearings, seals, spacers or the like together as a unit against a fixed abutment of the shaft for maintaining the member or plurality of members in proper working or spaced relationship on the shaft. The annular locking device comprises a pair of arcuate members, each having a pair of flat surfaces. When the arcuate members are disposed about a shaft within an annular recess and a preselected spacer sleeve is snugly interposed between the annular locking device and the sleeve-like elements, bearings or the like, and the locking devices are tightly secured to the shaft, the sleeve-like elements are retained against the abutment so as to locate and maintain the various elements on the shaft in the required working relationship.

Abstract: The expandable annular cam-type locking device is particularly applicable for use on mill roll necks, shafts and the like. The annular locking device is adapted to be disposed in an annular groove of a mill roll neck or shaft for retaining one or more sleeve-like members, anti-friction bearings, seals, spacers or the like together as a unit against a fixed abutment of the shaft for maintaining the member or plurality of members in proper working or spaced relationship on the shaft. The annular locking device comprises a pair of annular members or segments each having a pair of flat surfaces. One or more circular recesses is located in one surface of each annular member and each recess is provided with an expandible circular cam insert having flat faces. Threaded fastening elements are carried by the annular members and are threadedly connected to the inserts for expanding or moving same relative to the recesses.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a non-releasable connection of a component with a shaft protruding into a continuous bore of the component, wherein the bore possesses two bore edges and an inner profile by means of which the shaft is secured against rotation. At one bore edge there bears a shoulder and at the other bore edge a flange of the shaft. The shoulder and flange are formed of one piece with the shaft and conjointly secure the shaft in both directions against axial displacement. In order to form the flange of the shaft by means of cold impact or press forming there is provided a punch possessing a ring-shaped rib at its end face.The non-releasable connection fabricated with such apparatus is manifested by the features that the component is formed by at least one fork-type joint which is secured at an end of a shaft for steering a vehicle.

Abstract: A leg for supporting a pallet is provided with means at one end for engaging in an aperture in the pallet and for clamping against opposite pallet surfaces surrounding the aperture.

Abstract: Robots or industrial automatons comprising each: standard modules assembled like a meccano construction, said modules being adapted to perform the requisite basic functions and comprising a module of translation, a module of rotation of 2 k .pi., a module of rotation of less than 2 k .pi., a member consisting for example of a head having several axes, said standard modules being interconnected by means of arms sawed to the desired length before assembling the component elements of the robots.

Abstract: A retainer for resiliently applying a preload force to a bearing assembly rotatably supporting a shaft has a bore through which the shaft extends and is assembled from a plurality of separable sections. Formed in the wall of the bore are circumferential grooves which define lands therebetween. Similarly, circumferential grooves are formed about the shaft adjacent the end of the bearing assembly. One series of grooves are oblique to the shaft axis so that the respective lands are deflectively engaged when the retainer is radially closed about the shaft. The retainer is advantageously employed to maintain preloads on tapered roller bearings supporting the final drive shafts in heavy earthmoving equipment.

Abstract: A fastening device for stably mounting a fishing reel to a fishing rod by the fastening action of a pair of cooperating sleeves, one fixedly and the other axially slidably mounted on a main cylindrical body which is attached to the fishing rod. The shape of a hood possessed by each sleeve is so improved as to stably and snugly fasten the foot of the reel, allowing very limited horizontal displacement of the reel.

Abstract: A rotary harrow has soil working members, each of which includes a tine mounting wherein a horizontal support has a holder with a tine at one end, or both ends. Near the top of the fastening portion are one or two recess stops that are engaged by tightening elements to urge the fastening portion in tight engagement within an internal bore of the holder so that tension or compression is exerted on the interfit between bore and fastening portion. The fastening portion can taper upwardly and the bore is shaped with surfaces that conform to the taper of that portion. The tightening elements can be a nut and bolt combination, an externally threaded member or a pivoted cam that is turned with a tool. The fastening portion can have a region of reduced diameter so that it bears on two spaced apart areas of the bore.Additionally, the fastening portion can include a substantially U-shaped recess, which can be engaged by one of the nut and bolt combination or the externally threaded member.

Abstract: A fluid cylinder, piston and rod assembly where the cylinder is equipped with mounting means and the piston and rod are slidably carried in the cylinder. The piston rod is attached to the piston by means of a segmented locking ring engaging a groove at the piston end of the rod. The locking ring is fastened to the piston by means of a plurality of fasteners.The piston is equipped with peripheral wear inserts and hydraulic fluid seal means.

Abstract: A positive retaining ring system for axially securing a work element to a shaft which consists of a shaft provided with an annular recess having a trapezoidal cross-sectional configuration and which extends partially below a work element positioned on the shaft against a work element retaining shouler provided thereon. A segmented annular retaining ring having substantially the same trapezoidal cross-sectional configuration mounted in the recess with the vertical side thereof abutting the side of the work element. Clamping means circumferentially mounted on the segmented ring so as to exert an axial force thereagainst to wedge the ring into the annular recess. The resultant wedging force is translated into an axial force against the side of the work element so as to positively lock the work element against the work element retaining shoulder provided on the shaft.

Abstract: A shaft bearing retention means comprises a segmented ring having a conical inner surface which is placed about a large diameter shaft having a corresponding conical indentation about its periphery to receive the ring. The segments are retained in assembled position on the shaft by joining pins extended through interengaging lapped tongues on the ends of each segment and by attaching one or more flanged retaining rings thereto by screws or bolts. Additional clamping screws or bolts pass through the retaining ring and are threaded into the segments, projecting beyond the latter so as to bear against a thrust ring through which the shaft passes. The axially adjustable thrust ring engages a bearing assembly which is fixed against axial movement by a shoulder on the shaft. Axial force is produced against the bearing assembly by the clamping bolts due to wedging action of the mating conical surfaces on the shaft and the segmented ring.

Abstract: A bolt-on piston assembly wherein two piston pieces are clamped onto the rod which has an integral radial projection thereon for axially restricting the piston pieces disposed on axially opposite sides of the projection. A plurality of bolts extend into the pieces for releasably clamping the pieces relative to the radial projecting portion of the rod.

Abstract: A heat exchanger and mounting structure therefor for use in connection with incinerators, for example, the heat exchanger formed of a ceramic wheel with a central core and an annular portion with gas passages extending axially therethrough. The ceramic wheel is mounted at the central core with a mounting means which comprises first and second wedge members in abutting relationship with opposite sides of the core. Means bias the wedge members towards each other so that the core is resiliently held under compression between the two wedge members to eliminate tension stresses on the ceramic wheel due to thermal expansion differences between the ceramic wheel and the mounting structure therefor. The mounting structure includes a first shaft secured to the first wedge member and a second shaft, tubular in shape and concentrically mounted on the first shaft, the second shaft being secured to the second wedge member. The shafts are supported on the cool side of the heat exchanger wheel by a pair of bearings.

Abstract: A piston and rod assembly wherein the rod has a pair of axially spaced grooves and the piston includes recesses disposed in opposite faces. One of the grooves is radially larger than the other and locking members are disposed in the grooves of the rod and extend into the recesses. A retaining means including a snap ring and an annular ring which is L-shaped in cross section are disposed radially outwardly of the locking members in the first recess for removably retaining the locking members in the first recess. A pair of threaded screws may also threadedly interconnect the retaining ring and the piston.

Abstract: apparatus for pivotally connecting two relatively movable members has a pin having one end connectable with a retainer plate. Flat surfaces and shoulders formed on the one pin end respectively engage the plate and an aperture therein and with an end connected bolt and washer universally maintains the pin.