Abstract: The intermediate case for turbo fan engines has a bearing support cone extending forwardly from the support flange in alignment with the struts in the case to provide a secure support for the #2 bearing for the low pressure shaft. To accommodate the power shaft assembly which extends through the cone the latter has a bulge in which is mounted the support cylinder for the bearings for the power shaft, this bulge providing a support structure for the cylinder and clearance for a bevel gear on the power shaft journaled in the cylinder.

Abstract: A locking gear drive for a protective roll-type shutter or awning device. The gear drive comprises, for example, a housing, a driveshaft coupled to a driving gear, a driven gear meshing with the driving gear and a driven shaft coupled to the driven gear. A socket is mounted at one end of a longitudinally displaceable driveshaft and the socket is slidably disposed within an end cap affixed to the gear drive housing. A plurality of pin-like projections, acting as locking members, are provided around the exterior periphery of the socket. A plurality of interlocking members for engaging the pin-like projections are provided in the form of bores disposed in an end wall of the end cap. A compression spring disposed around the driveshaft and between the gear drive housing and socket urges the locking members and interlocking members into engagement. Inter-engagement of the pin-like projections and bores holds the driveshaft against rotation.

Abstract: A device for supporting and sealing a final drive shaft bearing in a speed change gear having a construction in which a final drive shaft is supported by a bearing holder via a rolling element bearing and the bearing holder is fitted and fixed to a gear box. A stopper flange is formed at the inner end portion of the bearing holder and a first nut is screwed to the outer end portion of the bearing holder so as to clamp the outer race of the rolling element bearing in cooperation with the stopper flange. A seal housing is integrally formed with the bearing holder and extends outside the nut. An oil seal is fitted to the seal housing and has a seal lip that comes into contact with the outer circumferential surface of the drive shaft. The final drive shaft is equipped with a helical bevel gear and the rolling element bearing consists of a double-row angular contact type bearing. A second nut for clamping the inner race of the bearing in cooperation with the bevel gear is screwed to the final drive shaft.

Abstract: The safety system in a hoist having a motor with a motor shaft, a gear reduction unit, a drum, a safety brake drivingly coupled on an operating element on or close to the drum in which a mechanical out-of-sync detector produces a unidirectional brake-setting output from inputs from the drum and the motor shaft, the unidirectional brake-setting rotational output for setting the brake. In a preferred embodiment, an error correction is made into the detector for obtaining a first unidirectional output during normal operation, and the brake-setting unidirectional rotation is in the opposite direction for setting the brake. One form of detector is a mechanical differential assembly and another form of detector is a set of coaxial shafts that measure differential rotation between the drum and motor input shafts. A unique brake actuator is provided and is easily reset remotely after the brake has been set.

Abstract: In a soil cultivating implement of the kind which comprises a row of rotary power-driven soil working members which extend substantially horizontally and perpendicular to the implement's intended direction of operative travel, the cost of making and assembling the implement is reduced by providing a drive transmission to the soil working members which includes an upright shaft fixed in a sleeve of an open-bottomed gearbox. A bevel pinion is rotatable around the lower end of such fixed shaft and is fastened by adhesively secured pins to the top of one of the spur pinions, each of which is welded to the upper end of a rotary shaft carrying the corresponding soil working member. Blades are provided adjacent the bevel pinion and nearby spur pinions to distribute lubricant to such pinions. One lifts lubricant to the intermeshing spur pinions and another blade further guides same to the bevel pinion.

Abstract: A selective driving mechanism includes an input shaft and two output shafts. The input shaft and the output shaft have profiled parts that can be engaged and disengaged with each other. A control member is movable between two selective positions in which only one or the other of the output shafts is drivingly engaged with the input shaft. The control member may be a sliding sleeve or a bell crank lever.

Abstract: A drill head having a drill head casing, a rotatable support member for a drill steel, a ring gear nonrotatably attached to the rotatable support member and a pinion gear driving the ring gear. A carrier for the pinion gear having a housing attached to the drill head casing and a pinion shaft rotatably supported in the housing. The pinion gear is nonrotatably mounted on one end of the pinion shaft and the other end of the pinion shaft has an elongated cavity which nonrotatably receives the drive shaft of a motor. Bearings are located between the pinion shaft and the housing and seals are located between the pinion shaft and the housing adjacent to the bearings. A nut is threaded on each end of the pinion shaft to retain the pinion gear and the bearings on the pinion shaft.

Abstract: A torque reduction unit having small bevel gears is described, particularly for use in the operation of rolling shutters or blinds. Due to its reduced dimensions the reduction unit is located within the operating pulley for the winding up cylinder or drum, and comprises two crown gears which are respectively integral one with the rotable pulley and the other with the stationary or fixed box, crown gears externally of a central hub carrying three or more radial pins uniformly arranged and integral with said hub, the pins having as many bevel pinions rotably carried thereon, the teeth of the pinions meshing with the teeth of the crown gears.

Abstract: A bevel gear set for particular use in providing a variable leverage torque proportioning effect in a differential. The bevel gear set includes a gear with bevel teeth and a pinion with bevel teeth which mesh and which meshing teeth have lines of contact. The lines of contact have midpoints or midportions which coincide with a given plane of rotation of the gear which has the bevel teeth as distinguished from the pinion.

Abstract: An adjustable gear train is disclosed wherein play in a train of intermeshing bevel gears is accommodated by forming one of the gears of two radially separated coaxial parts which are axially movable with respect to one another, one of the parts being gear toothed and the other of the parts forming a shaft for the toothed part.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a gear transmission for an angle tool such as a grinder, polisher, sander, angle screwdriver or the like having a drive motor for driving an output spindle shaft. The motor has a drive shaft defining a longitudinal axis transverse to the output spindle shaft. The gear transmission connects the drive shaft of the motor to the output spindle shaft and includes a first stop and a second stop on one of the shafts. A first gear is mounted on the one shaft so as to abut against the first stop and a second gear mounted on the other one of the shafts. A resilient annular bearing is tightly held between the second stop and the first gear; and, a cut-shaped retainer is disposed on the one shaft for containing the resilient annular bearing.

Abstract: A traversing device for the blade-holding unit and the bar-carrying unit of a vertical wood shearing machine, or a wood shearing machine slightly inclined to the vertical, comprising four screws, two of which are placed at the bottom near the slideways, and the other two screws, being placed at the top slightly above the reaction plane of the pressure bar, and a mechanical transmission capable of making the four screws kinematically synchronized with each other.