Abstract: A hydromechanical torque transmission device comprises three coaxial rotatable bodies. These are a driving body, an intermediary body and a driven body. The driving and driven bodies are adapted to be coupled to respective coaxial shafts that are to be coupled together in rotation. A speed correlator system is adapted to maintain the speeds of the driving and driven bodies relative to the intermediary body in a predetermined ratio. The intermediary body comprises a hydraulic circuit. The driving and intermediary bodies define a first pump adapted to cause a flow of fluid in this hydraulic circuit. The intermediary and driven bodies define a second pump also adapted to cause a flow of fluid in the hydraulic circuit. One at least of the first and second pumps has a variable volumetric capacity. The device also comprises means for controlling variations in this variable volumetric capacity.

Abstract: A rotary hydraulic device of the displacement pump type having coaxial rotor and stator and vanes axially slidable in the rotor, the stator comprising at least one bottom surface formed with a variable number of deformations having rectilinear zones suitable for the operation on the recesses by the vanes. The recesses are made in movable elements of the stator such that the depth of the recesses can be made variable thus providing a device of variable capacity. The device is applicable to brakes and dampeners, as well as to engines and pumps.

Abstract: A hydraulic motor comprises vanes slidable axially in lodgings of a rotor against a continuous stator bottom surface. The motor works with a hydrostatic transmission of power applied to rolling stock. The bottom surface has recesses formed therein on movable elements of stator wherein a constant pilot pressure is fed to said movable elements and the motor is a self regulated variable capacity motor since the capacity thereof results from the depth of the recesses due to the opposition of two forces, one from the pilot pressure and the other from a pressure coming from the resisting torque.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rotary electrohydraulic device of the volumetrical pump type having stator and rotor as well as vanes axially slidable in said rotor. According to the invention, the intermediary space between the rotor and the stator has an axial longitudinal circulary variable interval partly defined by a continuous stator bottom surface of a constant width, said slidable vanes coming to bear constantly and totally on said continuous bottom surface, which is single for a considered set of said vanes. The device according to the invention is mainly applicable as a brake or slackening means but can also work as a motor and a pump.

Abstract: Hydrostatic motor with axially slidable vanes.The invention relates to a hydrostatic motor having vanes sliding axially in rotor lodgings against a continuous stator bottom surface with recesses therein. The motor comprises an intercommunication circuit between the vanes behind the latter, said circuit permitting integral transmission of pressures between vanes depending on their variable position against said recessed stator bottom surface, the vanes retracted in their lodging acting by increase of pressure in said intercommunication circuit upon the vanes projecting out of their lodging.

Abstract: This invention relates to rotary hydraulic devices of the volumetric or displacement pump type, having a stator and a rotor and vanes axially sliding in the rotor, the stator comprising at least one bottom surface presenting a variable number of recesses therein with ramps and rectilinear zones suited to the operation, said vanes following said bottom surface. In accordance with the invention, the vanes are equipped with an integral or inset base, with end lobes of cylindric shape having a radius of curvature corresponding to that of the milling cutter used for machining the stator. Access to the recesses occurs by means of two ramps corresponding to the lobes of cylindric shape of the vane bases.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for feeding vegetable material into a reaction vessel nder pressure to subject the vegetable material to a reaction such as cooking or hydrolysis. The vegetable material is shredded and impregnated with a treating liquid. The resulting liquid-solid mixture is fed by a vortex pump to the reaction vessel. Rate of flow to the reaction vessel is controlled by a flow meter and a variable-speed motor driving the vortex pump.

Abstract: An electrohydraulic rotary brake comprises an inner core, at least one energizing winding, a cylindrical amagnetic insert and an annular part outside the core and the insert. A cylindrical bore is excentric with respect to the cylindrical peripheral surface of the insert, recesses being provided with magnetizable sliding vanes and a brake fluid. On a rotary shaft, are mounted lateral flanges in fluid-tight manner, the inner core being fast to the rotary shaft and to the insert, all three being arranged so as to constitute a rotor for the brake. The annular part outside the core and the insert constitutes an annular stator to which the lateral flanges are fixed and with the bore excentric with respect to the peripheral surface of the insert constituting the outer part of the rotor.

Abstract: The drive uses a recessed wall or partition between the pole-rings of the two rotors to substantially diminish the occurrence and strength of eddy currents. The recesses may be in the form of grooves, depressions or axial bores which reduce the mass of the wall. The wall is further reinforced by non-magnetic electrically non-conductive or insulated elements of high tensile strength to compensate for the reduction in strength caused by the grooves, depressions or bores.