Axially Stacked Annular Members Patents (Class 492/40)
  • Patent number: 5226305
    Abstract: Briefly, and in accordance with the foregoing, the present invention comprises a roller assembly for use with a bending apparatus for bending conduit and the like. The bending apparatus includes a frame, a bending shoe associated with the frame and a drive device for controllably driving the bending shoe. The roller assembly provides a roller which pivotably adjusts to an outside surface of the workpiece to accommodate variations in the workpiece while it is being bent during a rolling operation. The roller assembly includes a shaft attached and supported by the frame, two pivot segments and two roller dies. The pivot segments are positioned along and spaced apart on the shaft and each has an arcuate surface in a facing orientation with the other pivot segment. The roller dies have facing ends and base ends and a pivot socket formed in the base end. The pivot socket is sized and dimensioned for cooperatively mating with the arcuate surface of the pivot segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1993
    Assignee: Greenlee Textron Inc.
    Inventors: Larry G. Adleman, Jeffrey J. Plummer
  • Patent number: 5222273
    Abstract: A washing brush for motor vehicle automatic washing system washing rollers comprises a plurality of plate-like elements including sets of bristles, which can be wound about a supporting roller and arranged near one another in an axial direction, each plate-like element including a plurality of cylindric seats for housing therein evenly distributed bristle sets. The main feature of the invention is that each plate-like element is further provided, at an end portion thereof, with a recessed portion devoid of cylindric seats therein can be engaged a middle projection having cylindric seats and provided on the other end portion of the plate-like element, at least a removable coupling element being moreover provided for coupling the mentioned end portions, on one of which there is formed a recessed region for fitting therein the other end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1993
    Inventor: Francesco Favagrossa
  • Patent number: 5176785
    Abstract: Applicator device for a laying machine with mobile head, for laying a composite material tape on a surface of application, said device comprising a rotary application roller carried by a mount fixed to said mobile head which applies said roller against said application surface and which advances said roller transversely to its axis of rotation so that while rolling it applies said tape on said application surface.According to the invention, this device is characterized in thatsaid rotary application roller comprises a resiliently flexible shaft deformable under flexion and a cylinder of resiliently compressible material fast with said shaft,each end of said shaft is connected to said mount by an end bearing, andat least one intermediate bearing is provided between said end bearings for connecting said shaft to said mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1993
    Assignee: Societe Anonyme dite: Aerospatiale Societe Nationale Industrielle ayant son siege social
    Inventors: Eric Poyet, Didier R. Mesnage