Abstract: A roll feed device includes a rotatable main roll, and a rotatable sub-roll. The main roll includes an annular stator, and an annular rotor rotatably mounted around the annular stator. The annular stator and the annular rotor cooperate with each other to provide a direct drive motor. The sub-roll includes a rotatable annular roll disposed in opposed relation to the annular rotor of the main roll. A sheet-like material is supplied between the annular rotor and the annular roll to be fed.

Abstract: A positioning table includes a pair of direct drive motors mounted on a flat surface of a base. One of the direct drive motor drives a parallel crank mechanism so as to move a table in one direction. The other direct drive motor drives an arm member connected to the table through a rail, so as to move the table in the other direction perpendicular to the one direction. Thus, the table can be moved in a common plane into a desired position by driving the pair of direct drive motors.

Abstract: An apparatus for converting an oscillatory motion to a linear sliding motion comprises a slide block provided for reciprocatory sliding movement along a linear path and an oscillating shaft. An oscillating arm is adopted to oscillate about the axis of the oscillating shaft. The oscillating arm connects said oscillating shaft to the slide block. An adjusting device is provided on the oscillating arm for adjusting a sliding stroke of the slide block with respect to an angle of rotation of the oscillating shaft. Also, a counting and indicating device is provided on the oscillating arm for counting and indicating an amount of sliding stroke of the slide block.

Abstract: An eccentricity control device, suitable for use as a slide stroke control device in a press, has a rotary shaft including an eccentric member mounting portion, and an eccentric member mounted on the eccentric member mounting portion. The eccentric member has an outer peripheral surface which is at an eccentricity from the axis of the rotary shaft and sliding surfaces which are held in sliding engagement with both side surfaces of the eccentric member holding portion of the rotary shaft. A screw rod is screwed into the eccentric member mounting portion and extends through the eccentric member mounting portion in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the rotary shaft.

Abstract: A motion transforming apparatus for transforming a continuous rotary motion of an input shaft into a motion of a predetermined type of an output shaft through a motion transmitting cam device. The fluctuating torque loaded on the input shaft by the motion transmitting cam device is compensated by torque compensating cam device and pneumatic cylinder device for applying a load on the torque compensating cam device. The pneumatic cylinder device includes a cylinder and a piston, and the pressure of the gas in the cylinder compressed or expanded by the reciprocating piston acts on the torque compensating cam device, thereby applying a compensating torque on the input shaft.

Abstract: A rolling contact device having a shaft adapted to be secured to an element of an apparatus, an outer ring adapted to be in rolling contact with another element of the apparatus, and rolling elements disposed between the shaft and the outer ring, includes an abutting portion provided on each shaft and the outer ring, the abutting portions on the shaft and the outer ring being opposed to each other with a small gap defined therebetween. These abutting portions are arranged such that, when an excessive radial load is applied to the outer ring, the abutting portions are brought into contact with each other to prevent permanent deformation of rolling contact portions of the device.

Abstract: A stroke control has an eccentric member fitting on an eccentric member mounting portion of a drive shaft and the eccentric member is at an eccentricity with respect to the drive shaft and has sliding surfaces which are in sliding engagement with the eccentric mounting portion. A connecting rod rotatably carried by the outer peripheral surface of the eccentric member and swingably connected to the slide. A gear shaft extends through the eccentric member mounting portion and has spline-type gear teeth on end portions thereof, the gear shaft being rotatably supported by the eccentric member. A plurality of screw rods are arranged in parallel with the gear shaft such as to extend through the eccentric member mounting portion, the screw rods being fixed to the eccentric member. Gears screwed to the screw rods and meshing with the spline type gear teeth on the gear shaft, the gears contacting the eccentric member mounting portion.

Abstract: A press with a stroke control device has a drive shaft having an eccentric member mounting portion with an eccentric member thereon, the eccentric member is at an eccentricity with respect to the drive shaft and has sliding surfaces which are in sliding engagement with the eccentric mounting portion, a cross slide supporting the eccentric member, and a slide which surrounds and supports the cross slide therein, the slide being slidable while supporting the cross slide which moves laterally when the eccentric member rotates with the drive shaft.

Abstract: An indexing device comprises a rotatably driven input shaft; a globoidal cam having, for the purpose of outputting intermittently the rotation of the input shaft, a taper rib defining a cam face which has a disk-shaped end face gradually yielding to a helical face about the input shaft; an output shaft to which the rotation of the input shaft is transmitted so that the output shaft may rotate intermittently; an indexing disk provided on the output shaft and having supports protruding radially outwardly at intervals along the circumference of the indexing disk, the ridge of the taper rib fitting between the adjoining supports; cam followers each disposed at the end of the support on the indexing disk and brought into engagement with the taper rib so as to be intermittently driven along the cam face; and gaps provided between the ridge of the taper rib and the supports opposite this, the gap being filled up by the elastic deformation of the cam follower so that the ridge of the taper rib may come into contact w

Abstract: A press apparatus having a crank shaft mounted in a crown and having at least one crank portion, and first, second and third roller followers which are fitted on the crank portion to be rotatable about the axis of the crank portion eccentric with the rotational axis of the crank shaft and which are disposed parallel with each other in the axial direction of the crank portion in positions corresponding to the left and right ends and an intermediate section of the crank portion. The apparatus also has a slide post which is disposed in the crown to be slidable in the vertical direction and which is connected at the lower end to a slide, and upper and lower roller pads disposed in the slide post and respectively having a pressure-contact surface which pressingly contacts the first and second roller followers and a pressure-contact surface which pressingly contacts the third roller follower.

Abstract: A rolling contact device having a shaft adapted to be secured to an element of an apparatus, an outer ring adapted to be in contact with another element of the apparatus, and rolling elements disposed between the shaft and the outer ring. The contact device has a projection mounted on or integrated with the shaft. The projection is so arranged that, when an excessive radial load is applied to the outer ring from the above-mentioned another element, the projection is brought into contact with the another element and reduces the load acting on contact portions among the rolling elements, the outer ring and the shaft.

Abstract: A roll feed apparatus in which a plate material is held in a pair of rolls and fed intermittently, in a predetermined length at a time, by the oscillated operation of the rolls, the distance between the rolls is adjusted by a material thickness adjusting mechanism, the power of the rolls for holding the material is adjusted by a holding power adjusting mechanism, and the length of each feed of the material is adjusted by a feed length adjusting mechanism. The material thickness adjusting mechanism, the holding power adjusting mechanism and the feed length adjusting mechanism are automatically numerically controlled by an electrical control system without direct manual operation.

Abstract: A device for adjustably restricting the flow of exhaust gases in a furnace flue to conserve fuel is disclosed. It comprises two interlocking pipe sections and a helical element having one end fixed to the inner surface of each pipe section. The helical element has a circular opening along its central axis. The degree of restriction provided by the device is adjusted by twisting or separating the two pipe sections.

Abstract: A roll feed apparatus for intermittently feeding a strip by a constant length into manufacturing machines. A pair of first and second rolls and a pair of first and second brake shoes are arranged along a strip transporting path. The rolls move swingingly in a strip transporting direction to transport the strip clamped between the rolls. The rolls move away from each other when they swingingly move in a direction opposite to the strip transporting direction. First and second cams are mounted respectively on outer and inner shaft members of a drive shaft for rotation therewith. The inner shaft member can be adjusted in its angular position relative to the outer shaft member. The cams are operatively connected to the second brake shoe.

Abstract: A roll feed apparatus has first and second rolls for gripping a plate when rotated in first directions and moving from each other when rotated in second directions, and first and second brake pieces for fixing the plate during rotation in the second direction. A pivot body has support portions along its length for rotatably supporting a first roll shaft at opposite ends. A pair of pivot shafts parallel to the first roll shaft are rotatably connected to the pivot body and a housing and eccentric with respect to each other. First and second adjusting arms are fixed to the shafts; third and fourth adjusting arms are pivotally fitted to the support portions and support the first brake piece. A first adjusting device with first and second links coupled to the first and second adjusting arms moves portions of the first roll and first brake piece located next to first and second arms towards or away from the second roll and the second brake piece by pivoting these arms.

Abstract: A material feeding apparatus for intermittently feeding a sheet or rod material in a predetermined length has a first gripper device having a first fixed gripper and a first movable gripper for cooperation with each other in clamping and unclamping a material therebetween, and a second gripper device having a similar construction as the first device and carried by a slide block provided for reciprocatory sliding movement along the path of feed of the material.

Abstract: A press apparatus having a crank shaft mounted in a crown and having at least one crank portion, and first, second and third roller followers which are fitted on the crank portion to be rotatable about the axis of the crank portion eccentric with the rotational axis of the crank shaft and which are disposed parallel with each other in the axial direction of the crank portion in positions corresponding to the left and right ends and an intermediate section of the crank portion. The apparatus also has a slide post which is disposed in the crown to be slidable in the vertical direction and which is connected at the lower end to a slide, and upper and lower roller pads disposed in the slide post and respectively having a pressure-contact surface which pressingly contacts the first and second roller followers and a pressure-contact surface which pressingly contacts the third roller follower.

Abstract: A cam mechanism includes a continuous rotary shaft connected to a drive source, a cam fixed on the rotary shaft to convert each continuous rotation motion of the rotary shaft to a compound horizontal and vertical motion, and an output member coupled with the cam. The cam comprises a single piece, disc-shaped compound cam having in its upper surface an endless groove formed of continuously-arranged arcuate and non-arcuate groove portions and an endless guide the depth of which from the upper surface of the compound cam varies continuously. The output member is supported displaceably in the horizontal and vertical directions relative to the compound cam and includes at least one roller engaged with the groove and the guide of the compound cam.

Abstract: A planetary roller type power transmission device has a first rotary shaft and a second rotary shaft which are arranged coaxially, a sun roller connected to the first rotary shaft, a stationary outer ring disposed concentrically with the sun roller, and a plurality of planet rollers disposed in the annular space between the sun roller and the stationary outer ring, the planet rollers being carried by a carrier rotatable as a unit with the second rotary shaft. The power transmission device further has a pair of mutually opposing flange-like projections formed on the outer peripheral surface of the stationary outer ring so as to pass positions adjacent to respective axial ends of the area of contact between the planet rollers and the stationary outer ring, and a tightening means operable from the outside of the transmission device and adapted to urge the flange-like projections towards each other thereby causing elastic deformation of the stationary outer ring.

Abstract: A roll feed apparatus having a first roll and a second roll for oscillatory rotation in opposite directions such as to intermittently feed a sheet clamped therebetween. The roll feed apparatus comprises a pivot member having one end fitting on a pivot shaft extending from the housing of the apparatus substantially in parallel with the first roll shaft and the other which is free, the pivoting member being mounted at its portion between the one and the free ends on a first roll shaft, the pivot member being adapted to cause, when it pivots, the first roll shaft and the first roll to move towards and away from said second roll, a first adjusting device for adjusting the force by which the first roll is urged towards the second roll is adjusted, and a second adjusting device for adjusting the gap between the rolls in accordance with the thickness of the sheet to be fed. The first and second adjusting devices are operable independently of each other.