Abstract: A swivel link, especially for use in rotatable interconnection of two relatively pivotable machine members (1) at the adjacent end portions. One (1) of the two members may be bifurcated to embrace the other member and formed with two aligned swivel link attachment holes (2). The swivel link comprises a bolt (3) and two expandable, internally conical sleeves (5). In the area of each cone sleeve (5), the bolt (3) has a correspondingly conical portion (3"). A coaxial threaded end trunnion (3") at each end of the bolt (3) mounts a tightening nut (4) adapted for axially directed displacement of the adjacent cone sleeve (5) into the space between the attachment hole wall (2) and the conical portion (3") of the bolt (3).

Abstract: A locking mechanism for the head tube of a bicycle in which the two ends of the head tube are respectively provided with a horizontal race and a vertical race. The horizontal race is provided for the handlebar to feed through, and the vertical race cooperates with a vertical tube for locking. The wall of the vertical race is provided with a feed-through lateral passage, which communicates with the vertical race through an intersecting hole. A stop member is placed inside the intersecting hole, and the two sides of the stop member are respectively provided with a push member. The side of the stop member facing the vertical race is provided with a recessed arc surface, and the opposite side is a V-shaped protruded portion, which is provided with a fixed ring. The two push members are respectively provided with a screw hole for a stove bolt to feed through so that the fixed ring can be locked together.

Abstract: A two-step and toothless bicycle head shaft bowl set has a two-step locking device making use of two semi-cylindrical members and an upper cover provided with a fastening bolt. The two semi-cylindrical members can be caused to effect the fastening by tightening the fastening bolt of the upper cover. The two-step locking device is capable of effecting an automatic alignment of centers of the component parts of the device in conjunction with arcuate lashing rings. The two-step locking device can also be used to enable the bearings to be positioned at an optimum horizontal angle so as to ensure a smooth rotation of the bearings and to eliminate the gap between two component parts.

Abstract: A device for tight fixing a rotary body such as a gear and a pulley, to a rotary shaft such as a motor shaft and a transmitting shaft, provides a slippage between the rotary body and the rotary shaft when an over-load occurs to the rotary body. A groove portion is formed either at the inner surface of a mounting hole in the center of the rotary body or at the outer surface of the rotary shaft, in which a pair of key members having a tapered contact surface are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the rotary shaft. A clamping bolt going through one of key members is screwed into the other key member, and pressed to both key members. Due to the pressure from the clamping bolt, each key member is displaced outward as guided by the tapered surface. One of key members makes a contact with the inner surface of the mounting hole or rotary body, and at the same time, the other begins to press the outer surface of the rotary shaft, respectively.

Abstract: The adaptor for locking the internal components of a torque converter including a mandrel or pin having first and second end portions. The first end portion of the mandrel extends into a torque converter opening to engage the internal components of the torque converter. A collet of the torque converter circumscribes the mandrel during this extension. An intermediate element having a hollow end portion is capable of fitting over the collet and the second end portion of the mandrel. An intermediate element is fastened or fixed to the mandrel which may be interchangeable, dependant upon the particular torque converter being stabilized. A bushing is interposed the intermediate element and the collet and maintained in this position such that the open hollow end portion of the intermediate element, the bushing, and the collet are sandwiched together.

Abstract: Two components, such as an engine block (1) and a gear case (2), are coupled to each other by at least two flexible coupling links (7, 8) and by a rigid coupling link (10). One end of each flexible coupling link is connected to the engine block or gear case by a first screw connector (11, 11A, 11B) having a threaded bolt (13) passing through a twin cone (16) acting as a centering member. The conical surfaces of the twin cone centering member (16) cooperate with respective conical surfaces (12) in the gear case (2) and in an expander ring (17) bearing with its outer surface against an inner surface of a hole in the coupling link (7, 8) or an intermediate bushing in the coupling link, whereby the force transmitting connection is accomplished with radial clamping forces. The cooperation of the conical surfaces compensates for alignment tolerances and uneven stress distributions are avoided.

Abstract: A bicycle front fork mounting structure including a locating socket mounted around the top coupling tube of the front fork and supported on a ball bearing above the head tube of the bicycle frame, the locating socket having an outer thread and a tapered center through hole, a split holding-down ring fitted into the tapered center through hole of the locating socket, and a lock nut threaded onto the outer thread of the locating socket to compress the holding-down ring by forcing an inside annular flange thereof into an outside annular groove on the holding-down ring, causing the holding-down ring and the locating socket to securely fix the front fork to the head tube.

Abstract: A bearing assembly includes an improved clamping arrangement for securement to a shaft. The inner ring of the bearing assembly includes a tapered inner surface generally complementary to a tapered outer surface of a tapered adapter. Each of the tapered adapter and the inner ring member include an axial extension portion which are situated to be proximate one another during use. A nut is provided interconnecting the extension portions such that relative axial movement may be effected between the inner ring member and the tapered adapter. As a result, the bearing assembly may be secured to or removed from the shaft.

Abstract: A rectangular cavity is provided in an actuator lever intersecting with an upper edge of a shaft-receiving hole in the lever and receives a linearly slidable hard metal rectangular key having a cam on one edge for clamping the lever to the shaft. A screw engages threads on the key and is slidable with the key to a position where a distal end of the key is flush with or projects from a side surface of the lever, at which position the cam is free of the shaft-receiving opening, the key providing visual indication that the lever assembly may be positioned over the shaft without interference.

Abstract: An apparatus for gripping a pipe, which apparatus comprises an outer member having a first inclined inner surface, and an inner member having a first inclined outer surface, the arrangement being such that, in use, on rotation of said outer member relative to said inner member in one sense said first inclined inner surface co-operates with said first inclined outer surface so that said inner member moves towards a pipe to be gripped.

Abstract: A clutch/brake unit used to transmit torque from an electric motor to a gear reducer, particularly in processes that involve cyclical, start-stop operations. A special output shaft of the clutch/brake has a split portion which projects from the housing and receives a tapered plug within a tapered cavity. A bolt has a threaded connection with the plug to create wedging action which radially expands the split portion of the shaft when the bolt is turned in one direction. This expansion of the shaft creates a frictional coupling with the input hub of the gear reducer. The frictional coupling can be released by turning the bolt in the other direction to relieve the wedging force and allow the split portion of the shaft to contract radially.

Abstract: An input component (3) of a clutch is fastened to the output end (5) of the crankshaft (7) of an internal combustion engine by a force-fit coupling (11) in which a radial force fit is produced by axial forces which are applied to the coupling (11) by a tool inserted through the hub (21) of a clutch disc (23) or applied to the hub, which in turn applies the axial force on the coupling. The coupling enables the clutch (1), including the flywheel (3) and the clutch disc (23), to be installed on the crankshaft (7) as an assembled unit. The force-fit coupling (11) comprises an expanding conical, element (61), arranged in a central opening (59) of the output end (5) of the crankshaft (7), which expands the output end (5) of the crankshaft radially.

Abstract: The conical gripping arrangement (100) serves for attaching a construction component (4) with a hub (10) onto a shaft (1). The hub (10) possesses a conical external peripheral surface (16) on which a graduated conical ring (13) with a conical internal peripheral surface (17) is arranged. The other conical internal peripheral surface (21) rests against the conical external peripheral surface (23) of the conical section (7) of a conical casing (20) which engages with a cylindrical casing section (6) resting on the shaft (11) in a cut away section (11) of the hub (10) and is clamped there together with the hub (10) (FIG. 1).

Abstract: A mounting device for anchoring a machine element having a tapered bore coaxially upon a rotary shaft. The device fits between the interior tapered bore of the machine element and the cylindrical surface of the shaft and is effective to position the element at any desired position longitudinally of the shaft and at any angular position circumferentially of the shaft. The device has inner and outer segmented sleeves, the mating surfaces of which are similarly tapered so that relative axial displacement of the sleeves effects expansion and contraction of the interior bore and external surface of the combined elements. Rotation of an internally threaded nut at one end of the device effects the relative axial displacement of the inner and outer sleeves to afford expansion and contraction of the outer sleeve without straining the material of the sleeve or the nut.

Abstract: A bicycle pedal crank bearing system has a hollow axle within which expandable cone shaped discs are flattened so as to expand radially outward and expand the axle into locking engagement with a thrust sleeve surrounding the axle. Since the thrust sleeve can not move axially relative to the bearing, the axle is likewise axially positioned, but is still free to rotate. The chain path is, thus, easily aligned and access to the bearings for maintenance is made easier.

Abstract: The present invention concerns telescopic tubular assemblies comprising a plurality of successive tubular sections sliding one inside the other between a retracted position and a deployed position. One non-limiting example of such assemblies is a ski stick.

Abstract: A lightweight renewable hand-held tool that may be easily renewed in the field including a tool head having a tapered shaft, an expandable sleeve, a hollow handle, and a movement assembly for moving the expandable sleeve back and forth along the tapered shaft in response to a rotation of the hollow handle. The expandable sleeve includes a tapered interior that slidably mates with the tapered shaft. Consequently, rotation of the hollow handle adjustably expands the expandable sleeve, forming a tight fit between the tapered shaft and the interior of the hollow handle. The preferred movement assembly is a threaded nut that engages a threaded stud located at a lower end of the tapered shaft. An antirotation fastener is preferably used to prevent the hollow handle from thereafter rotating during use of the tool.

Abstract: A locking mechanism comprises a bicycle fork tube which is rotatably received in a bicycle head tube. This fork tube has a plurality of elongate slots at its tubular wall below the top end portion. A stem member has a collar thereof which is removably enveloped around the top end portion of the bicycle fork tube. A tubular housing containing an actuating block and wedge members is removably received by the fork tube for retaining the stem member to the fork tube thereof.

Abstract: A telescopic extensible rod, suited to be used as extension in agricultural pneumatic tools for picking fruit from trees or of cutting off branches of trees, is formed by two coaxial tubular elements, i.e. a first tubular element and a second tubular element that slides inside the first tubular element. A pneumatic actuator can be connected to the free end of the second tubular element. A coupling is mounted between the tubular elements to removably lock their reciprocal sliding. Two coaxial pipes, a first pipe and a second pipe, are located inside the tubular elements, the second pipe being designed to slide inside the first one while keeping the seal because of the presence of a sleeve mounted between the pipes and inside the first pipe. The free ends of the pipes are in fluid-dynamic connection respectively with a compressed fluid delivery and with the pneumatic actuator.

Abstract: A pipe fastening device including a split sleeve main tubular body with an upper and a lower internal tapered surface. A lower fixing member at the end of the pipe having a frusto-conically shaped body matching the lower tapered inner surface of the tubular body. An upper movable member also having a frusto-conically shaped body matching the upper inner tapered surface at the top of the tubular body. A bolt from an installation member passes through the fixing member and is fixed in the movable member so that tightening of the bolt draws the movable member toward the fixing member. The tapered surfaces cause the tubular body sleeve to expand for securing the tubular body in the pipe. The fixing member and the movable member have protuberant parts received in the groove of the split sleeve tubular body.

Abstract: A union for sensor mounting assemblies has a body with a stem extending from the body to a terminal end. The stem is received within a boom and has an inclined surface extending from the terminal end toward the body. The stem includes a cam provided with a cam surface slidably abutting the inclined surface, so that the cam slides along the inclined surface between an open position and a closed or locked position. The stem and the cam have aligned, opposing, flattened sides defining a cross section for each of the stem and the cam as a truncated circular arc section. A draw member or bolt interconnects the cam and the stem extends generally parallel to the inclined and cam surfaces. In the open position, the stem and cam of the union may be received in or withdrawn from a cavity in a support boom. In the locked position, the union is rigidly connected with the support boom.

Abstract: In order to secure the flywheel (5) of a motor vehicle friction clutch (3) to the output end of a crankshaft (23) of an internal combustion engine, it is proposed that the flywheel (5) is fastened to the output end of the crankshaft (23) by means of an axially detachable centric clamping arrangement (21). The flywheel (5) is hereby supported on a pipe end (37) of the crankshaft (23). Conical expansion elements (45), which may be axially displaced by means of a centric screw element (43) to generate radial clamping forces, are inserted into the centric cavity formed by the pipe end (37). The screw element (43) is structured in such a way that it may be screwed through the hub (27) of a clutch disc (9) of the friction clutch onto the crankshaft (23) by means of a screw attachment tool (51). The friction clutch (3) may thus be preassembled together with the flywheel (5) to form a structural unit before it is secured to the crankshaft (23) .

Abstract: The bracket (12) is bolted loosely to the attachment arm (14) of a dental chair to establish a preliminary orientation of the bracket relative to the attachment arm. The bracket is then levelled with adjustment screws (40) which bear against a surface on the attachment arm to establish a level orientation. The bolt fastening the bracket to the attachment arm is then tightened to fix the level orientation.

Abstract: The invention relates to devices for anchoring one part (P) relative to another (M) comprising a nut (4) and a conical ring (5), the base (1) of the part to be anchored (P) made up of first part (2) around which said nut (4) passes and a second truncated cone shaped part (3) receiving the conical ring (5), a hole (6) in the anchoring part (M) receiving the base (1) and its conical ring (5), the bottom of said hole (6) being provided with spring washers (9).

Abstract: Device for removing a bearing assembly from a shaft including a tapered adapter for securing a bearing assembly to a shaft that includes a radial opening therethrough extending along the length thereof and further defines a groove extending about at least a portion of the circumference of the adapter and being located proximate the large end of the adapter. The device also includes a removal ring with a holding lip for mating with the groove extending about the circumference of the tapered adapter and is provided so as to apply a separating force between the bearing assembly and the removal ring for releasing a bearing assembly from a shaft.

Abstract: The cone-type clamping arrangement is arranged in the intermediate space between the external circumference of a shaft and the internal circumference of the bore of an external member. It comprises a double-cone member, a cone ring arranged on the first cone surface of the double-cone member, and, arranged on the second cone surface of the double-cone member, a cone member which has an axial extension with cylindrical internal circumferential surface, which extension overlaps the cylindrical external circumferential surface of the cone ring and forms an overlap. During clamping, friction only occurs on three surface pairs. During loosening, the cone ring is supported, with a radial circumferential projection, on the flank of a circumferential groove of the double-cone member.

Abstract: This invention is directed to an improved eccentric crank assembly for a reciprocating piston type air compressor. The eccentric crank assembly includes an eccentric plate, a compressor shaft, and an eccentric shaft. The eccentric plate is provided with a pair of parallel overlapping openings formed therethrough. The compressor shaft includes one end provided with a flat angled surface, and the eccentric shaft includes one end provided with a corresponding flat angled surface. The angled surface ends of the shafts are disposed within the openings of the plate. When the eccentric shaft is moved away from the compressor shaft, the angled flat surfaces force the shafts radially apart and into engagement with the openings of the eccentric plate, thereby locking the shafts and the eccentric plate together.

Abstract: In cooperating cylinders, in particular cylinders of a printing mechanism which are in a drive connection via gear wheels and form a feed gap, at least one of the gear wheels is formed by a toothed rim and a wheel body which are connected with one another in a positive engagement via an overload coupling.

Abstract: In bicycles that have the front fork and handle bars attached to a steering tube that rotates within a frame mounted head tube, a bearing system wherein a compression ring slides over and about the steering tube to trap the bearing against the head tube. Lock nuts surround the tapered compression ring so that when they are threaded together they squeeze the ring against the steering tube. Threads or barbs on the inside of the ring dig into the steering tube to resist movement away from the bearing and allow the ring to be moved against the bearing and establish a proper bearing end load. Further tightening of the lock nuts holds the ring permanently in place.

Abstract: A bicycle headset includes a head tube engaged on a steerer tube, a lower bowl engaged in an upper portion of the head tube, a bearing engaged on the lower bowl, a sleeve engaged on the steerer tube, an upper bowl engaged on the bearing and engaged on the sleeve. A ring extends through the sleeve and couples the upper bowl and the steerer tube together such that the upper bowl and the sleeve and the steerer tube rotate in concert. A tapered surface is formed in the sleeve and the upper bowl so that the sleeve is forced radially inward by the upper bowl.

Abstract: A device for mounting and/or dismounting a bearing on a shaft incorporating a tapered clamping sleeve between bearing and shaft and an arrangement for mutual axial displacement of the bearing and clamping sleeve in at least one axial direction, which arrangement incorporates at least one wedge-pointed screw arranged, when being screwed in towards the shaft to cause a mutual displacement in axial direction between the clamping sleeve and the bearing by wedge action. The bearing is situated in a surrounding sleeve-shaped member significant axial space beside the bearing at least on one side. The arrangement for displacement of bearing incorporates at least one radial flange, axially affixed to the clamping sleeve. The wedge-pointed screw is arranged to be screwed in substantially radially through holes in the bearing housing, for exerting the axial wedge force between the flange and an inner race ring of the bearings.

Abstract: A releasable clamp for the interior of an elongated tube, for use in telescopic tube arrangements and the like. The clamp comprises an outwardly expandable split ring having open ends and sides of cylindrical configuration, the sides of the split ring expanding outwardly to frictionally engage the interior surfaces of the tube when in expanded position, the split ring slidably movable longitudinally within the tube when the sides of the split ring are in unexpanded position. Wedges are provided, co-operating with the open ends of the split ring to bear against the ends of the split ring to force the sides of the split ring outwardly to expand it, tube engaging position. This releasable clamp may be used, for example, in an adjustable length handle for an appliance such as a floor polisher.

Abstract: A composite tube structure is disclosed in which the end of the composite tube is either flared out at the end or is tapered in at the end and the flared or tapered portion is accurately formed to its final dimension so as to require no machining to size. An end assembly is applied to the end of the tube which has inner and outer portions fitting precisely into the inner and outer surfaces of the end of the tube. The inner and outer end pieces are drawn axially together to secure the tube in the end assembly between the inner and outer portions under a predetermined radial stress. The tube is secured to the end assembly without the use of pins or other fasteners which require severing the fiber strands of the tube.

Abstract: A rotary assembly for attachment to a rotary shaft includes a rotary body; and a bore hole extending in the rotary body from one end thereof for coaxially receiving a rotary shaft. The bore hole has a longitudinal axis coinciding with a rotary axis of the shaft when received in the bore hole. A parting split defining a clearance extends in the rotary body from one end thereof. The parting split extends in a plane which contains the longitudinal axis. A slot extends in the rotary body from the parting split on either side of the bore hole. The slot defines a dividing plane which traverses the longitudinal axis and which divides the rotary body into first and second axially adjoining body parts. The bore hole extends consecutively in the first and second body parts, and the bore hole which extends in the first body part is circumferentially closed. Two clamping wings are defined in the second body part by the parting split, the slot and the bore hole extending in the second body part.

Abstract: A device for axially advancing a surgical instrument into the brain of a patient includes an advancer that is engageable with the gooseneck of a surgical apparatus. The is axially telescoping, and the advancer can selectively grip the surgical instrument. Accordingly, the surgical instrument can be gripped by the advancer and the advancer telescoped to advance the instrument into the brain along a predetermined path.

Abstract: A clamping mechanism for frictionally securing together two radially adjacent concentric components of a gear drive wherein an annular clamping disc having concentric inner and outer peripheral edges and a substantially conically shaped convex portion between the edges is partially disposed in an annular recess in one of the gear drive components. Force applying means, such as tensioning bolts, cooperate with circumferentially spaced apertures in the convex portion of the clamping disc and threaded bores in the component to urge the peripheral edges of the clamping disc into frictional engagement with wall portions of the annular recess and with a concentric surface of the radially adjacent gear drive component.

Abstract: A joint for a vehicle steering linkage comprises a housing and a ball stud. The housing has a socket which contains the ball end of the ball stud, and has a sleeve which receives the end of a tie rod. The sleeve has an external, first clamping surface which is inclined with respect to the axis of the sleeve. The joint further comprises a clamp which clamps the tie rod in the sleeve. The clamp includes a clamping member and a threaded nut. The clamping member has a second clamping surface, and is free of a thread for engaging the thread on the tie rod. The threaded nut moves the clamping member relative to the sleeve and the tie rod, and moves the second clamping surface in sliding contact with the first clamping surface.

Abstract: A taper clamping unit includes a tightening assembly having first and second taper rings, one of which is mounted on a cylindrical bushing. The cylindrical bushing has an end flange which extends opposite projecting portions of a plurality of screws which are used to connect, tighten, and untighten the first and second taper rings to each other. When the screws are loosened, the projections bear against the end flange such that the first and second taper rings are loosened from each other and when the screws are tightened, the projections bear against the first taper ring thereby tightening the first and second taper rings with respect to each other.

Abstract: A telescoping steering column has a tube and a shaft. The shaft has a slide portion at one end and a midregion adjacent the slide portion. The slide portion and at least a portion of the midregion are received in sliding engagement in the tube. The tube has a crimp which is formed about a portion of the midregion and slidably engages the midregion. Rotational torque is transmitted between the shaft and the tube through the midregion and crimp. Further, the slide portion of the shaft abuts the crimp and is blocked from passing through the crimp. Finally, a slide lock is provided to fix the position of the shaft relative to the tube in a locked position and whereby the shaft slides relative to the tube in an unlocked position.

Abstract: A pin (101) for alignment of two elements (1, 3) each comprising at least one orifice (2, 4) to be positioned coaxially with each other, the first element (1) being stationary and the second element (3) being radially displaceable. The alignment pin comprises a cage (11) having a diameter smaller than the diameter of the orifices (2, 4) of the two elements (1, 3) and intended to be placed in these orifices (2, 4). The cage (11) comprises radial expansion blocks (13) for centering the pin (10) in the orifice (2) of the first stationary element (1) forming a reference and for displacement of the second element (3) in relation to the first element (1). The pin is used for centering a cover on a nuclear reactor vessel.

Abstract: A bicycle carrier for mounting to a trailer hitch on an automobile or the like, has a carrier frame for carrying one or more cycles, and a coupling assembly attached to the frame, the coupling assembly including first and second members adapted for insertion into the hitch and a screw adjustable for effecting relative displacement of the two members transversely to the hitch making a tight friction-fit of the coupling to keep the cycle carrier frame from wobbling on the hitch.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for use with a shaft mountable gear reduction drive in which a driven shaft is coupled with reduction gears by a hollow intermediate output shaft. The output shaft is journaled within the gearbox and has a tapered axial passage for receiving one end of the generally cylindrical driven shaft. A tapered bushing is wedged into the axial passage to interlock the output shaft and the driven shaft for synchronous rotation. A retaining nut is threaded to the outboard end of the output shaft and is rotated relative thereto to advance the nut axially along the driven shaft and forcefully lock the tapered bushing in place. In order to facilitate the driving engagement of the bushing with the output shaft and driven shaft, a nut locking apparatus is provided for preventing rotation of the retaining nut when the output shaft is rotated by the gear drive, and thereby drawing the tapered bushing along the driven shaft.

Abstract: A coupling for supporting an extension of a front fork in a head tube of a bicycle includes a bowl engaged in an upper portion of the head tube and includes a tapered surface. A ring element engages between the tapered surface of the upper bowl and the extension. A barrel engages on the ring element and a disc engages on the barrel. A fixed device engages in the extension with a bolt between the disc and the fixing device for pressing the barrel downward in order to press the ring element in place.

Abstract: Speed reducer, such as a screw conveyor drive, adapted to receive a shaft within a tapered sleeve. The shaft includes a tapered portion adapted for engagement with the corresponding tapered portion of the sleeve on one side of the housing when the shaft is inserted into the bore. On the other side of the housing, a split bushing is provided for receipt within the sleeve, the split bushing including a tapered surface for mating engagement with the tapered surface on the sleeve. A retainer plate is provided that is adapted to be placed on the end of the shaft extending through the bore. The retainer plate has a center hole for receipt of a capscrew through the retainer plate and into the shaft to securely maintain the shaft in place. The retainer plate further has a plurality of holes dimensioned so that the head and shank of screws may extend therethrough and a plurality of holes dimensioned so that only the shank of the screws can extend therethrough.

Abstract: The invention concerns expandable fastenings of the kind that includes a conical shaft part (2) and a conical expandable sleeve (4) that is pressed up on the conical part (2) of the shaft (1) in order to fill out and fasten the shaft in a mounting hole. The expandable sleeve (4) is pressed against the cone by a washer (5) and by a nut (11) screwed onto a threaded end portion of the shaft. The washer (5) is on its outside provided with a thread for the threading thereon of a nut part or sealing ring (6). The expandable sleeve (4) and the threaded washer (5) are connected by hooklike flanges so that the sealing ring (6) can also be used to pull out the sleeve from the conical axle part.

Abstract: A coupling fixture provided with an outer ring and an inner ring each ring having a radially extending cut in one circumferential direction, the inner periphery of the outer ring and the outer ring of the inner periphery being tapered, a wedge-like-shaped ring nut interposed between the inner periphery and the outer periphery, and screw bolts screwably engageable with the ring nut to expand the outer ring in diameter and contract the inner ring in diameter, the ring nut being provided with a cut for making the ring nut radially displaceable.

Abstract: Apparatus for mechanical coupling such as an actuator to a valve includes an elongated drive member having an axial extremity having a drive surface and an elongated driven member having an axial extremity having a drive surface. One of the drive surfaces is an internal surface which has a polygon shaped cross section and one of the drive surfaces is an external drive surface which has a polygon shaped cross section. In some embodiments first and second sleeves including a plurality of wedge surfaces having generally planar faces are inserted between the drive and driven surfaces. In other forms of the invention the internal drive surface has four wedge shaped faces and a single sleeve having wedge shaped faces is inserted between the drive and driven member. The drive and driven members are disposed with the drive surfaces disposed in nested axially overlapping relationship with the wedge shaped surfaces disposed radially intermediate the respective drive surfaces.

Abstract: An apparatus for fastening a wheel, having a boss hole therein, to a shaft. The fastening apparatus includes an axially slit outer ring having a cylindrical outer peripheral surface fitted into the boss hole, a tapered inner peripheral surface, a support flange formed at one end of the ring adjacent the small diameter end of the tapered surface for direct engagement with the shaft, a cylindrical inner peripheral surface formed at the large diameter end of the tapered surface, and an enlarged annular end flange formed at the other end of the ring.

Abstract: A fixing mechanism for a timing gear system used in a compressor has a pair of timing gears engaging each other and a pair of shafts mounting the pair of the timing gears. At least one of the pair of timing gears is divided into a gear part and a sleeve part having matching tapered faces. The tapered faces are pressed by a nut onto one another so that the gear part is fixed to the shaft.

Abstract: A fastener for securing a wheel to a shaft comprises a first ring having a cylindrical central opening. The first ring includes a radially extending portion having for engaging one side of the wheel. A boss having a tapered outer surface extends axially from the radially extending portion, and the central opening extends through the radially extending portion and through the boss. The fastener also includes a second ring for engaging the opposite side of the wheel, and a third ring having an inner surface engageable with the tapered outer surface of the boss of the first ring. Bolts connectable to the second and third rings urge the second and third rings axially toward each other whereby the second ring is urged against said opposite side of the wheel so that the wheel is axially pressed between the first and second rings, and the inner cylindrical surface of the boss is radially pressed against the shaft.