Abstract: A hydraulic tensioning device for a power transmission system having a belt or a chain includes a cylinder and piston assembly of which a movable element, generally the piston, acts on the belt or chain so as to ensure that it is tensioned and thus ensures taking up of any slack in the chain or belt. The piston includes a plurality of piston elements slidable along a central axis of the cylinder.
Abstract: A power transmission roller chain includes pin links having pins spaced by one pitch and connected to each other by plates, and bushing links or “blocks” having bushings spaced apart from each other and rigidly connected to each other by plates. Two successive pin links are connected to each other by a bushing link having the bushings rotatably mounted on the pins. At least one pin link includes a central plate provided with pins alternately protruding from opposite faces of the plate offset from each other by a fraction of a pitch.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 13, 1999
Date of Patent:
February 20, 2001
Assignee:
MorseTEC Europe S.P.A.
Inventors:
Roberto Merelli, Germinal Flavio Capucci, Augusto Luigi Fanzani