Abstract: A vehicle brake control system for the wheels (122) of a vehicle wherein each wheel (122) includes a brake assembly (110) is provided. The control system includes tanks (14, 16) containing pressurized fluid. Brake actuators (21, 22, 23, 24) are interconnected to the wheels (122) of the vehicle for controlling a mechanical lock (162) for the brake assembly (110) associated with each wheel (122). A control unit (40) is interconnected to the tanks (14, 16) and the actuators (21, 22, 23, 24) for supplying fluid from a tank (14, 16) to the actuators (21, 22, 23, 24) to control the engagement and disengagement of the brake lock (162) in the event of loss of pressure in either of the tanks (14, 16).

Abstract: A hydraulic damper includes a cylinder containing hydraulic fluid therein, a piston working in the cylinder and partitioning the interior thereof into two liquid chambers, a piston rod connected to the piston and extending through one of the liquid chambers to project to the outside of the cylinder, and disc valves provided on opposite sides of the piston for generating damping force both in the extension and contraction strokes of the damper. A liquid passage is formed in the piston rod to communicate the two liquid chambers separately from the disc valves. An adjusting member is provided in the liquid passage and is displaceable between three or more adjusting positions for changing the effective area thereof. A digital encoder connected to the adjusting member for detecting the adjusting positions. The digital encoder includes a common electric line which ON-OFF controls at least two other electric lines when the other two lines generate the same digital signals.

Abstract: The invention concerns the construction of a blank with a view to manufacturing a handbrake control lever (34) for a drum brake. The blank defines two fingers situated essentially at the extension of the body of the blank, one of the fingers is to be folded back to form a trough (62) to accept a cable, the other finger is to be positioned relative to the trough (62) so as to prevent the cable from escaping from the latter.

Abstract: A paper feed device includes a paper cassette with separating pawls which can be detachably mounted on the paper feed section of an apparatus body. The separating pawls are retractable out of a sheet-separating position in response to detachment of the cassette from the paper feed section, and positionable into a sheet-separating position in response to mounting of the cassette on the paper feed section.

Abstract: The printed products unwound from a storage coil or wound package in imbricated product formation are conveyed over two belt conveyors against a stop. According to one embodiment the printed products are separated from the imbricated product formation before reaching the end of the first conveyor device formed by the two belt conveyors by an acceleration imposed by the second of the two belt conveyors, i.e. they are singled. According to another embodiment the imbrication of the printed products is inverted before the products reach the end of the first conveyor device. The individual printed products fall downward after impinging the stop and are deposited upon the preceding printed product in an imbricated formation. The imbricated product formation is conveyed away by a belt conveyor of a second conveyor device in a conveying direction opposite to the conveying direction of the first conveyor device.

Abstract: A flap member, e.g. a trunk lid of a motor vehicle, is pivotally mounted on a framework, e.g. a motorcar framework. The flap member is assisted in its upward movement by a gas spring. The thrust of the gas spring biases the flap member towards an upper position. In this upper position further upward movement of the flap member is locked by a relief pressure valve between the working chambers of the gas spring. By applying external force to the flap member assisting the thrust of the gas spring, the flap member may be moved beyond said upper position while opening said relief pressure valve. If the external upward directed force ceases the relief pressure valve closes again and the flap member is maintained in the new position by the thrust of the gas spring and the locking action of the relief pressure valve. When the flap member is to be lowered, an external force is applied opposite to the trunk lid and as a result thereof a direction-responsive is opened in parallel to the relief pressure valve.

Abstract: A bottom sheet separator-feeder for separating and forwarding sheets seriatim from the bottom of a stack of sheets includes a stack tray and endless vacuum belts extending through the front end of the tray for acquiring and advancing the bottom sheet, the belts extending across a support surface having vacuum ports therein for applying a negative pressure at the back of the belts. In order to reduce unwanted vacuum effects upstream of the vacuum ports, a transverse lip extends across the support surface upstream of the vacuum ports.

Abstract: A speed control system for an envelope feeding mechanism used to feed envelopes to a pickoff device in a high speed mail sorting machine. The feeding mechanism includes a pair of toothed belts which convey the envelopes along an inclined surface. The side edges of the envelopes are received by a third toothed belt which is driven at an elevated position along a side panel. The belts are driven by a multiple speed electric motor controlled by electronic circuitry which automatically decrements or increments the motor speed if the envelopes are bunched together too tightly or too loosely. If the speed is decremented and the envelopes are still tightly bunched, the drive motor is stopped by a shutoff circuit which operates independently of the speed control circuit.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a braking arrangement for a chain saw having a housing and a guide bar mounted on the housing for accommodating a saw chain thereon. The brake arrangement includes a brake drum operatively connected to the saw chain with a brake band disposed in surrounding relationship thereto. A brake member is connected to the brake band and moves between a ready position whereat the brake band is disposed in spaced relationship to the brake drum and a released position whereat the brake band is drawn tightly around the brake drum. A brake spring resiliently biases the brake member to cause the brake member to pull the brake band tightly about the brake drum when in the released position. A latch arrangement holds the brake member in the ready position against the force of the brake spring. A cam connected to the drive motor rotates through a predetermined path.

Abstract: The invention provides a paper feeder apparatus having first and second automatic paper feeder mechanisms and a manual paper feeder mechanism. The paper feeder apparatus performs automatic feed using the manual paper feeder mechanism and the first automatic paper feeder mechanism. The paper feeder apparatus also has the second paper feeder mechanism which is detachably mounted in the manual paper feeder mechanism. Furthermore, the paper feeder apparatus has a display unit. When the second automatic paper feeder mechanism is mounted in the copying machine, a display control circuit (microcomputer) controls to display a sign at the display unit to indicate which one of the first and second paper feeder mechanisms is selected. However, when the second automatic paper feeder mechanism is not mounted, the display control circuit controls the display unit so as not to display the sign which indicates the selected mechanisms.

Abstract: A cassette for use with a cash dispensing machine having a picker assembly including first and second pickers, for example, for picking bills from the cassette when the cassette is placed into operative engagement with the cash dispensing machine. The cassette is used to receive a stack of bills having a front end and a rear end, with the cassette having a dispensing end which is positioned next to the picker assembly. The cassette utilizes first and second resilient pushers that are aligned with the first and second pickers to move the stack of bills towards the dispensing end. Each of the first and second resilient pushers includes a ball and socket joint which enable the pushers to conform to the rear end of the stack and thereby obviate a current "wedging" problem associated with cassettes.

Abstract: A structural element which is particularly suited for use in accommodating torsional displacement while carrying various axial, transverse, and flexural loads. The structural element is of a multi-component construction which includes at least one elongated tube-like thin wall member having a pair of longitudinally-extending edges. The wall member is laterally engaged and constrained by one or more stabilizers which permit yielding relative motion between the edges when torque is applied.

Abstract: To prevent erroneous operation of a wheel anti-skid or anti-brake lock system which is arranged to compensate for yaw of the vehicle if the wheels at the respective sides of the vehicle operate on portions of a road surface of widely different roughness, e.g. one side of the vehicle on a dry road track and the other side on ice or snow, upon movement of the vehicle through a curve during which a brake is applied, so that the yaw-prevention portion of the system might erroneously recognize movement through the curve as yaw, that is, rotation about a vertical axis through the vehicle, an accelerometer (36') is provided, connected to sense transverse acceleration of the vehicle, e.g. about a vertical axis, and inhibiting application of the yaw-preventing signals to the automatic braking system.

Abstract: In a paper sheet stacking apparatus according to the present invention, continuously fed paper sheets are received by rotating blade wheels, and are then dropped from the blade wheels at a predetermined position by means of a stationary stop. A separator capable of rotating coaxially with the blade wheels is stopped at the paper sheet dropping position to bear thereon the first of many sheaves of paper sheets to be allotted out of the dropped paper sheets. The paper sheets on the separator is temporarily transferred to an auxiliary stacking unit, and the separator is removed from the blade wheels. Then, the separator is rotated without touching the paper sheets and stopped at a position beside a stand-by position where it waits for the first paper sheet out of the next sheaf of paper sheets to be inserted into the blade wheels. Thereafter, the separator is moved further toward the blade wheels and stopped at the stand-by position.

Abstract: An automatic brake operating device to be used on a motor chain saw provided with a clutch drum around which there is a pretensioned brake band. By use of a spring and a toggle joint the band can be switched between a free position and a braking position. The toggle joint is operated between two corresponding positions by an inertia mass for releasing and a stirrup for resetting. The mass and the stirrup are individually movable and capable of triggering the brake independent of each other.

Abstract: A shock absorber comprising an elongated tubular element, closed at one end, into which element at the other end a piston can move as counter element, is disclosed. The space delimited by the counter element inside the tubular element is divided intoa high pressure chamber closed at one end closed by a first movable separating element which can come to rest against a stop element,a fluid chamber divided into at least two sections at the other end, which sections are separated from each other by a restricting element, which fluid chamber is closed by a second movable separating element embodied as a piston, anda low pressure gas chamber positioned between the first and second movable separating elements.

Abstract: A railroad slack adjuster has a threaded adjusting screw, one end of which is adapted to be connected to one portion of a railroad car brake rigging. The slack adjuster also has a clutch housing assembly, telescopic with the adjusting screw and adapted to be connected to another portion of the brake rigging. A clutch disk is rotatably mounted on the adjusting screw for engagement with opposing clutch surfaces within the clutch housing. A trigger housing is telescopically positioned about the adjusting screw, clutch housing and clutch disk. A spring is positioned about the adjusting screw and effective between the clutch housing and adjusting screw to urge the screw outwardly of the clutch housing. There is a further trigger spring positioned about the clutch housing and urging the clutch housing outwardly of the trigger housing.

Abstract: Hydraulic vehicle brake comprising a hydraulic accumulator (1), a brake valve adjustment device (4) supplied thereby, and a brake pressure line section (7) to the brake cylinders attached to the latter via an emergency brake valve (6). In the emergency braking position of the emergency brake valve, this connection is broken, and the brake pressure line section is directly connected to the hydraulic accumulator via a nozzle (10) which is bridged by a cylinder (13) in which a piston is sealingly displaceable. A spring (17) biases the piston in the displacement direction to the accumulator side end connection (11) of the cylinder. During emergency braking, the piston (14) first forces an amount of hydraulic medium sufficient for brake application out of the brake cylinder side chamber (16) of the cylinder (13). This is followed by a damped increase in brake pressure through additional supply of hydraulic medium from the hydraulic accumulator (1) through the nozzle (10) into the brake cylinders.

Abstract: Brake linkage for vehicle friction brakes is actuated by a brake power motor (6) and comprises a vent play regulator (10) having an adjustment element driven by an auxiliary motor (14). At the start of braking, the auxiliary motor (14) is actuated in advance of the brake power motor (6), causing application of the vehicle friction brake through the adjustment element. The brake power motor is then activated and tightly clamps shut the friction brake. The brake linkage is particularly suitable as a brake clamp (5) for disc brakes, the vent play regulator then being integrated into the pull rod (11).

Abstract: Sheet feeding apparatus with an adjustable stack support in confronting relation to a feed opening able to accommodate sheets of various widths, so that one or more stacks of sheets can be supported along the feed opening with the longitudinal center line of any stack being positionable along different selected points along the length of the feed opening. At least about eight selectively controlled suction cups are aligned parallel to the length of the feed opening and encompass most of the opening engaging the bottom surface of the bottom sheet in any stack of sheets and withdraw the sheet from the stack. The spacing between contiguous margins of the suction cups is much less than about two diameters of each cup. The suction cups are preferably supported on the top of a pneumatic tube and are raised with the tube to engage the bottommost sheet in the stack. The pneumatic tube is mounted for pivotal movement upon a rockable carrier framework.