Abstract: A compressor and method for compressing a working medium, including moving a drive piston which is driven by way of a driving medium within a first cylinder between a first end position and a second end position; moving a high pressure piston which compresses the working medium within a second cylinder between a first end position and a second end position; arranging a high pressure seal for sealing the high pressure piston; arranging a magazine having a receptacle for the high pressure seal and at least one replacement high pressure seal in a first operating position, in which the high pressure piston is sealed by way of the high pressure seal; and transferring the magazine from the first operating position to a second operating position, in which the high pressure piston is sealed by way of the replacement high pressure seal.

Abstract: A compressed air nailer comprises a working piston connected to a driving tappet and configured to drive in a fastener and a triggering apparatus. The triggering apparatus comprises a manually actuable trigger, a placing sensor, and a force transmission element configured to interact with the manually actuable trigger and the placing sensor to actuate a control valve and trigger the driving process when the manually actuable trigger and the placing sensor are actuated together. The compressed air nailer is configured to continuously drive in fasteners in an automatic operating mode when the manually actuable trigger and the placing sensor are permanently actuated, and wherein displacing the placing sensor from the second position into the first position does not actuate the control valve when the manually actuable trigger is in an actuated position when the placing sensor is displaced.

Abstract: New tungsten carbides alloyed with fluorine in amounts up to 0.5 wt % and possibly with fluorocarbon compositions are described. It is possible to produce them by means of a new process of chemical vapor deposition, in which tungsten hexafluoride, hydrogen and a carbon-containing gas are used. A specific feature of the new process is the preliminary thermal activation of the carbon-containing gas. The tungsten carbide coatings are deposited on construction materials and items made from them. They possess enhanced resistance to wear, corrosion and chemicals.

Abstract: A pneumatically operated hydraulic pump includes a cylinder housing accommodating a main piston to subdivide the housing interior in two working chambers. The main piston is connected to a hydraulic piston for joint reciprocation so that the hydraulic piston can carry out a suction stroke when the main piston moves to one end position and a pressure stroke when the main piston moves to the other end position. Arranged laterally to the cylinder housing is a control mechanism for regulating a flow of working fluid alternately to the working chambers. The control mechanism includes a plastic valve casing for accommodating a control piston having opposite end faces of different size to define different effective areas and thereby realize reciprocation of the control piston by the working fluid. A slide shoe is guided in the valve casing for conjoint movement with the control piston.

Abstract: A pneumatically operated driving device is constructed and arranged to operate in a single actuation sequence and an automatic actuation sequence. The device includes an improved control valve assembly for communicating reservoir pressure to move a piston in a direction to effect a drive stroke of a fastener driving element and for permitting the piston to move in a direction to effect the return stroke of the fastener driving element. The control valve assembly includes a main valve, a secondary valve, and first and second actuating members for controlling movement of the main and secondary valves, a trigger member for moving the actuating members, and trigger member adjustment structure constructed and arranged to adjust pivotal movement of the trigger member thereby providing operator selection of single actuation followed by automatic actuation of the device, or automatic actuation thereof only. The control valve assembly may be removed from the device as a unit.

Abstract: A mechanical shift pilot valve is provided with lost motion response to accommodate slight piston reversals at travel limits to prevent a false shift signal related thereto.

Abstract: A supply-discharge valve member (30) inserted into a valve casing (29) can be pushed downward by pressure fluid of an actuation chamber (35). A restriction passage (G) is constituted by a fitting clearance between a valve bore (61) and an opening-closing valve member (62) provided in the valve casing (29). The pressure fluid supplied to the chamber (35) is quickly discharged to an atmosphere side through the restriction passage (G) when an amount of the supplied fluid is extremely a little. When the supplied amount increases, since a flowing resistance of the restriction passage (G) increases and the pressure within the chamber (35) is increased, a closing valve surface (69) of the opening-closing valve member (62) is brought into contact with a valve seat (70) for closing by that pressure to prevent the pressure fluid from being discharged.

Abstract: A hammer of the type having an impact tool driven by pressurized fluid has a hammer body portion with a closed rearward end and an open forward end and a piston longitudinally movably housed within the hammer body portion for striking a tool mounted at the open forward end of the hammer body portion, to thereby impact an object with the tool. The hammer has a fluid valve housed within the closed rearward end of the hammer body portion rearwardly of the piston and in communication with a source of high pressure fluid for driving the piston. The fluid valve has a valve body portion defining an interior chamber and a continuous exterior side wall, and a longitudinal opening in communication with the interior chamber. The valve body has a first body portion and second body portion which is identical to the first body portion and positioned longitudinally in relation thereto within the closed rearward end of the hammer body portion.

Abstract: The design of an air operated double diaphragm pump provides improved assembly, mounting flexibility, multiple plumbing combination including check valves which allow the pump to be mounted in any position without effecting its ability to prime or pump. A two shell housing design provides an enclosure for the air motor and includes structural ribbing, internal baffling, and all connections are made on the end of the pump in line with the diaphragm centerline allowing the pump to be installed in any access in line with the plumbing system.

Abstract: A double diaphragm pump includes a connecting shaft for interconnecting the opposed diaphragms mounted in the pump body for reciprocal movement relatively thereof and a pilot valve sleeve telescoped over the shaft and movable axially in response to movement of the connecting shaft and having a plurality of axially directed circumferentially disposed recesses thereon for fluid transfer through the pilot valve cavity. A spool valve assembly is also carried by the body in a cavity which is in selected fluid communication with a source of air pressure, the pilot valve, the atmosphere and the pressure chambers of the pump. The pilot valve sleeve also has at least one projecting annular rib which engages the usual O-rings of the cavity in which the connecting rods and pilot valve sleeve reciprocate for assisting movement past the O-rings in response to pressure from the spool valve.

Abstract: Control valve means for a driving tool operated with compressed air for the driving of fasteners into workpieces. Through a specific design of the main and the auxiliary valve and through a connection to the piston return chamber the control of the valves are brought into synchronization with the movement of the working piston. By this, high repetition frequencies can be achieved. Further, in the mode "automatic operation" also single shot operation is possible.

Abstract: A fluid driven reciprocating pump comprises a pair of heads each containing a displaceable member defining a drive chamber and a pump chamber on opposite sides of the diaphragm in one head, and a drive chamber and an inactive chamber on opposite sides of the diaphragm in the other head. A mechanical coupling connects the two displaceable members for reciprocation together; and a control valve assembly connects the drive chambers of both heads to a source of pressurized fluid for driving them through forward strokes, a spring driving the heads through return strokes.

Abstract: A fluid-driven reciprocating pump comprises a pair of pumping heads each containing a displaceable member defining a driving chamber and a pumping chamber, a mechanical connection coupling the two displaceable members for reciprocation together, and means for connecting the driving chamber of one pumping head to a source of pressurized fluid and the pumping chamber of that pumping head to a source of material to be pumped. The pump further includes means for connecting the driving chamber of the other pumping head to a source of pressurized fluid and for selectively connecting the pumping chamber of the other pumping head either to a source of material to be pumped to produce a double-action pumping operation wherein the material is pumped during both reciprocations of the displaceable members, or to the source of pressurized fluid to produce a single-action pumping operation wherein the material is pumped during only one of the two reciprocations of the displaceable members.

Abstract: A reciprocable drive mechanism has a fluid pressure operable ram controlled by a spool valve, a two-position valve and a braking valve. During a powered stroke of the ram, the spool valve closes an exhaust path of the two-position valve so that the latter remains in a first position in which pressure fluid is obliged to flow through the braking valve, in a fully opened condition, to the cylinder of the ram. At the end of the powered stroke the spool valve is shifted to a second position in which it permits exhausting of fluid through the two-position valve, and as a result of change of differential pressure in the latter, the pressure fluid previously obliged to flow through the braking valve is permitted to flow to exhaust. The braking valve is then less open, so the ram carries out its return stroke at a slower rate.

Abstract: A pneumatic fastener applying tool featuring a self-cycling control valve with one moving port. A trigger actuated valve sets the cycling valve in motion. The cycling valve alternatively pressurizes and vents the working piston of the fastener tool. A valve stem is positioned by an integral reciprocating piston. The position of the reciprocating piston is determined by the balance of forces between a biasing spring tending to vent the working piston and a pressure-force tending to pressurize the working piston. Two flow paths, internal to the valve stem, determine the pressure applied to the reciprocating piston. One path pressurizes the reciprocating piston. Another path vents the reciprocating piston. Positive feedback of air pressure from the working cylinder positions the reciprocating piston and valve stem so as to vent the reciprocating piston when the working piston is vented and to pressurize the reciprocating piston when the working piston is pressurized.

Abstract: A piston-cylinder combination having a piston arranged for reciprocating movement within a cylinder under fluid pressure, the fluid pressure being ultimately delivered to the sides of the piston with a connector rod from the piston controlling the movement of valves for the delivery of fluid to the piston. The fluid valves are alternatively exposed to fluid under pressure to insure proper opening and closure thereof. The valving combination from the alternate sides of the piston eliminates chattering or floating of the piston, particularly when the piston is under a "no load" condition.

Abstract: Automatically Self-Reciprocating sequencing valve for use with pneumatic power cylinders/actuators in systems operated at frequencies of a few cycles to a few thousand cycles per minute comprises a valve housing with a central bore adaptable to receive a shuttle member that makes or breaks fluid communication between a fluid supply source and a receiver such as a power cylinder or an actuator of a positive displacement pump in response to fluid pressures acting over surfaces such shuttle member entails as controlled by appropriate slave valve housed alongside therein including fluid supply and exhaust ports entering and leaving said valve housing, and together with said slave valve allowing an automatic reciprocating-valve-operation for as long as the pressurized fluid is supplied thereto to result in self-reciprocating operator responsive to not only system pressures for cycle regulation but also to an externally provided biasing flow regulator for an easy control of cycle frequencies within the desired prac

Abstract: A fluid-actuated, such as a pneumatically actuated, hydraulic pump of either the single acting or the double acting type is controlled in its operation by a main valve member which has two connecting compartments the fluid in one of which is always at the atmospheric, and in the other always at a superatmospheric, pressure. The main valve member has two end faces, one larger than the other, the smaller being always acted upon by the superatmospheric pressure of the fluid and the larger one intermittently. An auxiliary valve member controls the admission of the pressurized fluid to the larger end face and is open only during the reversal of the hydraulic pump from suction to pumping stroke, while the pressure acting on the larger end face is relieved during reversal from the pumping to the suction stroke. A duct communicates one or the other of the connecting compartments of the main valve member which an actuating compartment of an actuating unit, depending on the position of the main valve member.

Abstract: A hammer and more particularly a fluid operable hammer wherein alternating impetus provided by pressurized liquid and gas means actuates a reciprocable hammer piston to generate repetitive impact loads.

Abstract: A pressure fluid engine of single acting cylinder type has a directional control valve and a master valve with a spool and two valve seats. The spool is formed on a piston rod extending from a piston in the cylinder, the rod passing through a cylindrical disc of the directional control valve. One of the valve seats is provided in the disc to unseal the pilot operating fluid when it cooperates with the spool at a dead point. Another valve seat for the spool is provided in one of the valve chambers of the directional control valve to unseal the pilot operating fluid when it cooperates with the spool at the other dead point. The directional control valve is actuated by means of directional control of a pilot operating fluid with the master valve, in order to reverse the direction of the piston when the piston reaches one of the dead points.

Abstract: A portable and high-speed tool reciprocator for small tools, such as files, cutters, burnishing and polishing stones, leathers and the like, of a size easily held in one hand of an operator; fluid driven, preferably by a pneumatic fluid, the length of the reciprocatory stroke of which reciprocator may be adjusted, while in operative reciprocation, without the reorganization of its parts or the employment of extraneous gear, and the reciprocated tool may be selectively controlled to be either free or locked against rotation about its axis of reciprocation, while in operative reciprocation, without the reorganization of the reciprocator parts or the employment of extraneous gear, thus to enable the tool and its working face to move angularly relative to its axis of reciprocation and the holder, when free floating, or, when locked, to dispose the tool and its working face at some desired angle to tool reciprocation and the holder.

Abstract: The device is an air driven piston in a cylinder driving a pump. A shuttle valve is provided to control the admission of air under pressure to, and exhaust from the cylinder. The shuttle valve is a double ended piston operating in coaxial bores with a stem part of smaller diameter between the ends. The air passes to the cylinder through the bore around the intermediate part of the double ended shuttle valve. The piston at one end of the shuttle valve has greater area exposed to pressure than the area of the piston on the other end of the valve. The shuttle valve is operated by one or more pilot valves that are actuated by the main piston. The shuttle valve is shifted by controlling the pressures acting on the parts of the pistons having exposed areas of different sizes.