Abstract: A volume flow control for a hydraulic system of a vehicle has a pump for supplying a main consuming device and an auxiliary consuming device with a hydraulic medium. A valve having a main connection for connecting the pump to the main consuming device an auxiliary connection for connecting the pump to the auxiliary consuming device and is provided. The valve has a main piston with a throttle and an auxiliary piston positioned downstream of the throttle. The throttle is positioned within the auxiliary connection. The auxiliary connection is pressurized by the main piston. The auxiliary piston has a first end face, subjected to the operational pressure of the hydraulic medium, and a second end face, biased by at least one pressure spring and subjected to a reduced pressure of the hydraulic medium caused by the throttle.

Abstract: A sliding door which is moveable back and forth by a stationary drive motor nit, which has a drive pinion meshing with a gear rack attached to the door or the door's bottom rail, the gear rack being made of a series of adjacent rack segments extending in the sliding direction of the door and inserted in a retaining channel affixed to the door, the segments being manufactured as finished molded pieces and attached to each other with uniform tooth pitch along the rack, whereby the rack is low in cost, adaptable to various door displacement distances, and parts which are subject to heavy wear are readily replaceable.

Abstract: A proportional magnet valve is provided with which manufacturing tolerances can be equalized and balanced by having an armature with an adjustment member axially adjustable. Consequently it is made possible to adjust every magnet valve that is mass produced so that a predetermined coil current corresponds to a predetermined magnet force and with that corresponding to a predetermined working pressure of a magnet valve. Because of adjustment capability of the armature, no close or narrow manufacturing tolerances must be maintained to permit cost advantageous production of the magnet valve. Also, an exchange of a magnet valve upon wear or damaging thereof is possible in a simple and straight forward manner because the novel magnet valve can be adjusted exactly without difficulty.

Abstract: A vehicle clutch is comprised of a supply cylinder activated by a clutch pedal and a receiving cylinder for hydraulic fluid displaced from the supply cylinder when the clutch pedal is pressed down. A fluid line connects the two cylinders. A safety device is connected within the fluid line and comprises at least one throttle element for reducing the fluid flow from the receiving to the supply cylinder when a preset engaging speed for engaging the clutch is surpassed. The safety device includes a measuring orifice connected in parallel to the throttle element. A solenoid is provided which has a closing device for closing the fluid line between the two cylinders with the exception of the throttle element when a preset fluid pressure differential measured before and behind the measuring orifice is surpassed. Two pressure switches are coordinated with the measuring orifice for measuring the fluid pressure differential at the measuring orifice.

Abstract: A driving apparatus for an object which can be moved to and fro such as a te wing, comprising a guide block movable along a guide rail (1), said guide block being coupled to the object and to a driving member (2,2') movable by a motor and, with the aim of easy assemblage from only a small number of easily manufacturable components, consisting of a guide block component (3), having slidably supported thereon an actuating member (7), and of a manually actuated coupling member (5) spring-loaded towards the coupled position with the driving member, the actuating member (7) being in operative connection with the coupling member (5) through a bolt (8) stationary with said one member (7) and engaging at a sliding edge construction (9) formed in said other member (5) so that, when the actuating member (7) is displaced, the coupling member is brought against the direction of force of the spring acting thereon from the coupled position in the uncoupled position and automatically held in an end portion of the sliding ed

Abstract: Transmission that converts a rotary into a translational motion and is preferably attached to a motorized drive assembly, with a rotary drive mechanism and a translationally channeled motion-transmitting component that is attached to the drive mechanism in the vicinity of a track and driven by the drive mechanism. A controller wheel is attached to the motion-transmitting component by way of a cogged gear that converts the translational motion of the motion-transmitting component into a rotary motion on the part of the activating wheel. At least one activating component on the controller wheel engages at least one switch in accordance with the angle of rotation of the controller wheel.

Abstract: A safety arrangement for a motor-driven door or gate used to close building ntrances or doorways, in which a vertically movable overhead door consists of one part or a multiple number of parts. An elastically deformable hollow rubber section is provided at the closing edge of the door, and this hollow rubber section has an interior hollow space with first and second ends. At the first end of this hollow space, there is an air pressure-wave receiver signal transformer, whereas an air pressure-wave transmitter is connected to the second end. This transmitter generates a continuous air pressure oscillation having a first pulse duration and a first pulse frequency when the closing edge is freely movable through a path of motion of the door. The continuous oscillation has a second pulse duration which differs from the first pulse duration, and a second pulse frequency differing from the first pulse frequency when the closing edge strikes against an object positioned in the path of motion of the door.

Abstract: The invention concerns a braking device with a piston that can be acted upon by a pressure medium from a pressure medium chamber against the force of a actuation spring. The piston is connected through an actuation arm with a brake linkage. In order to reduce the dimensions of the braking device, the actuation spring and the actuation arm are parallel and coaxial to each other, such that the actuation spring and the actuation arm are located between the moment arms of the brake linkage.

Abstract: A one-way restrictor is provided which is configured like a lip valve and includes a bypass flow channel. The bypass flow channel is formed by an at least one opening which is located between an intake and an outlet and can be covered, at least partially, by the sealing element of the valve. By way of a control member the sealing element can be moved relative to the opening in such a way that the cross-section of the opening covered by the sealing element can be adjusted.

Abstract: A working cylinder is described which features a cylinder of compact construction. The openings provided for the tension member can be very well sealed by simple means. The tension element features a cross-section having a continuous circumferential line. The size of the cylinder is also reduced through the use of a generally elliptical piston. The tension element is preferably comprised of several plastic tension strands encased in a jacket of plastic material which also has a generally elliptical cross-sectional shape.

Abstract: A compact fluid actuated working cylinder is disclosed having a cam driven by a piston via a flexible tension member. At the ends of the cylinder housing there are deflection pulleys for providing continuous tension for the tension member. The pulleys are each mounted on pulley supports which extend from secondary bores in the main cylinder housing. The pulley supports are spring loaded and urge the two pulleys away from the cylinder housing and each other. The pulley supports are preferably rectangular in cross-section to protect against torsion.

Abstract: A servo-operated multiway valve is disclosed which can be optionally used as both a pressurization valve and a ventilation valve for use with a fluid consuming device. The valve utilizes a valve body to allow fluid communication alternatively between two inlet/vent fluid chambers and an outlet fluid chamber disposed along a central bore, in which the valve body is located. The device utilizes a servo to displace the valve body of the multiway valve. Fluid may be introduced to the valve through either of two inlet/vent chambers, to alternatively allow fluid to flow to the outlet chamber in the resting or the activated mode of the servo. The servo is in fludi communication with the selected inlet chamber at all times, and does not communicate with the selected vent chamber. This is achieved through the use of dual passages, connecting each of the inlet/vent chambers to the servo. Fluid flows from the appropriate inlet chamber to the servo, through the associated passage.

Abstract: A control apparatus is provided which controls a motor, clutch and drive gear arrangement. The device consists of a movable control lever assembly which moves from a neutral position into at least one other operating position. The control apparatus includes a switching device that is operated as a two-part activating member. The activating member is mounted in a guide arrangement which remains in a fixed position in relationship to such control lever assembly. The activating member can be moved from a neutral position of such control lever assembly into a second position in which the activating member will act upon the switching assembly.

Abstract: An electrical apparatus is provided for use with a potentiometer or variable resistance element which does not require a mechanical connection between a contact member and an activating mechanism. This is accomplished by using a magnet in at least a portion of either the contact member or the activating mechanism while constructing at least a portion of the other of such contact member and the activating mechanism of a ferromagnetic material.

Abstract: A sealing device particularly suitable for sealing pistons of working cylinders and for sealing two machine components which can slide against one another is disclosed. A conventional sealing element consisting of low-friction, but not very elastic material, such as PTFE plastic material, and resting on an elastic support, is used. The cross-section of the sealing element in a direction of the sliding motion is U-shaped and encircles the support. The dimensions of the support and the sealing element are determined such that the support exerts prestress forces on the sealing element which try to bend the rim areas of the sealing element outward against the sliding surface for the sealing element. Consequently, an additional force component, directed toward the sliding surface, results for the pressure force which is exerted on the sealing element by the support and functions as a sealing force.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for depositing an interlining reducing friction and noise on a pitched cable consisting of a metal wire rope with a threaded helix. The preferred method consists in using a thermoplastic filament and raising the pitched cable to a temperature higher than the melting point of the thermoplastic used, and thereupon, winding the filament between the heated threads of the helix so that the flocks or hairs fuse or sinter to the metal wire and adhere.

Abstract: A contactless proximity switch and mounting arrangement for determining the position of a movable member within a cylinder which has two end covers secured on the cylinder by means of a plurality of tie rods, includes a switch housing which secures to one of the tie rods. A contact opening formed in the switch housing has disposed therein, a switch having a pair of contacts and a permanent magnet disposed in a fixed manner. One pole of the permanent magnet is connected to a first contact, while the second pole is disposed in a contacting relation to the cylinder. A second contact is electrically coupled to the cylinder at a position a predetermined distance from where the second pole is disposed. As the movable member, which is constructed of a ferromagnetic material, nears the switch housing, the air gap between the second contact and second pole is bridged and the contacts close indicating the proximity of the movable member to the switch element.

Abstract: A control handle for remotely controlling a hydraulically operated apparatus. The handle comprises a flexible foil, conductor paths comprised of a pair of independent condensor plates arranged on the foil, and an isolating sleeve surrounding the foil and conductor paths.

Abstract: A position-sensing potentiometer arrangement for sensing the position of a movable piston and piston rod configuration within a linear actuator includes a first support member extending longitudinally within an open-ended recess formed in the rod and a sliding contact mounted thereon. A tubular support is mounted to a stationary closed end of the linear actuator and extends into the recess to surround a portion of the first support member and a center support member which is also mounted on the closed end of the a actuator. A longitudinally-extending resistance element and a parallel conductor element are mounted on and supported by the center support member. As the first support member moves through the tubular support, the sliding contacts couple the resistance element to the conductor element to provide a resistance value variable as a function of the position of the piston rod.

Abstract: A mechanical release arrangement for a fluid-pressure-operated braking cylinder having an emergency brake/parking brake feature includes a cylinder housing having formed therein a brake actuation portion, an emergency portion, an intermediate lever portion, and a coaxially-disposed brake-release arrangement interacting therewith. An actuator piston is movable within one pressure chamber and has a hollow rod portion extending therefrom on which the lever arrangement is secured. An emergency piston is retracted to a release position against the force of a spring arrangement by fluid pressure communicated to an emergency chamber. An extension sleeve extends from the emergency piston and has a first toothed portion formed at one end. A release rod extends through the extension sleeve and has a second toothed portion formed near a reduced diameter end.