Abstract: A toothed belt having an endless rubber band formed with projecting tooth portions, the rubber band having tension members buried in parallel therein. A cloth cover is fastened to the toothed surface of the band. The cloth is formed of woven fibers, and one of the warp and woof fibers of the cloth has a high-adhesive characteristic, and has a greater exposed surface area on one side of the cloth, which side is fastened to the toothed surface. The other of the warp and woof is formed of a fiber having properties suited for the working environment, such as properties of abrasion resistance and low friction, these latter fibers having a greater exposed area on the other side of the cloth, which other side is positioned for engagement with a toothed pulley.

Abstract: A belt tension controlling mechanism has a spring member which operates on a pulley support bracket to establish a tension in a belt trained on the pulley. The spring member surrounds a threaded sleeve which is rotated by a pair of selectively operable one-way ratcheting clutches which are simultaneously driven in opposite directions by a vacuum motor. The rotation of the sleeve results in linear meovement of a shaft connected to the pulley support bracket to thereby increase or decrease the belt tension, depending upon which clutch is operable.

Abstract: A raw-edge, endless power transmission belt is provided which comprises a plurality of layers. At least one of these layers is a fabric layer; another layer is composed primarily of elastomeric material; and at least one further layer is an elastomeric material having a heat-conducting amount of a pyrolytic graphite dispersed therethrough. The pyrolytic graphite-containing elastomeric layer is disposed between any two other layers in the belt and acts to conduct heat to the outside of the belt. Also provided is a method for making this belt.

Abstract: A gearing has on its driving shaft a drive means carrier member carrying drive means in the form of pins protruding towards a driven means carrier member fixed to the driven shaft and carrying divergently arranged driven means. The driven shaft is offset relative to the driving shaft so that the circular orbital path of movement of the driven means surrounds the circular orbital path of movement of the driven means. From the drive means always only one single drive means contacts a driven means and only in a portion of the orbital path thereof which portion is more remote from the axis of the driven shaft than that portion of this orbital path arranged nearer to the driven shaft. In the other portions of their orbital path, the drive means pass within the orbital path of the driven means but do not contact these. This results in an increased torque of the driven shaft.

Abstract: A belt tensioning device for an endless drive belt for a vehicle accessories drive system. A sheet metal bracket is adapted to be mounted on an engine adjacent the drive belt and has a lever plate pivotally mounted thereon. An idler pulley is rotatably mounted on the lever plate and is adapted to be moved in a belt tensioning direction for engagement with the drive belt. A coil spring is mounted on the bracket and is engaged with the lever plate biasing the lever plate and pulley in the belt tensioning direction. A series of ratchet teeth is provided in the lever plate and is engaged by a detent which is mounted on the bracket and formed of a strip of spring steel. The spring steel detent-ratchet teeth engagement retards movement of the lever plate in a direction opposite to belt tensioning direction. Also the detent will bow outwardly due to the resiliency thereof while retarding the reverse movement of the lever plate to provide a damping effect on the belt engaging pulley.

Abstract: A chain drive is proposed for motorcycle rear wheels carried by swing arms. The chain is deflected by means which are rigidly secured to a swing arm carrying the rear wheel so that the resiliency of the rear wheel suspension is independent of the forces exerted by the chain during an acceleration and deceleration of the motor.

Abstract: A raw edge type rubber V-belt having a tension section, a compression section and a tensile member layer extending in the longitudinal direction of the belt and embedded between the tension section and the compression section. A single or plural plies of rubbered fabric highly stretchable in the longitudinal direction of said belt are, in laminated form, embedded in the lower portion of the compression section with a rubber layer on each fabric, and bonded to the upper surface of the tension section. Short fibers are mixed in a compression rubber layer under the tensile member layer and in a tension rubber layer on the tensile member layer in such a manner that the short fibers extend in the lateral direction of the belt.

Abstract: A hydraulic tensioning device for maintaining a predetermined amount of tensioning force on an endless drive belt of a vehicle accessories drive system. A housing is mounted in a fixed position on the engine in close proximity to the drive belt. A shaft is movably mounted within the housing by an elastomer block which biases the shaft in a belt tensioning rotational direction. A lever extends outwardly from the housing and is integrally connected to the shaft for pivotal movement upon rotation of the shaft. An expandable bladder or actuator is mounted in the housing and is engageable with the shaft and pivots the rotor and lever toward a belt tensioning direction when the bladder is expanded by hydraulic fluid. A hydraulic fluid supply and pump assembly supplies fluid under pressure to inflate the bladder. An idler pulley drivingly engages the fluid pump and is driven by the endless drive belt for actuating the pump.

Abstract: A rack and pinion gear set wherein a driving pinion having spur gear or helical gear teeth rotates to produce axial displacement of the rack member has a saddle bearing located above the pinion for supporting the rack shaft. The saddle bearing furnishes support surfaces, which engage complementary support surfaces on the rack shaft. The surfaces have a center of curvature located at approximately the center of the contact area on the face of the pinion teeth. A second embodiment has a cradle bearing for supporting the rack shaft on planar surfaces and has, at its outer periphery, a cylindrical surface which is held by a saddle bearing. The center of curvature of the cylindrical surface is likewise located approximately at the mean contact surface on the pinion teeth faces.

Abstract: A synchronous belt drive system, particularly for small drive pulleys, and method of making such pulleys. The pulley has an optimum pitch radius for its belt teeth addendum circle which has a size between the limits of a maximum pitch radius determined by the radius of a circle through the points of a regular polygon having N equal sides and a minimum pitch radius determined by the radius of a circle having N arcs each equal in arcuate length to the length of each side of said polygon.

Abstract: This ball nut and screw assembly has a ramplike stop secured to screw shaft. On predetermined linear movement of the ball nut relative to the screw shaft, the balls contained in the ball nut are forced to climb the ramp and are compressively loaded to force radial expansion of the nut and to positively limit ball nut travel. The wedging effect provided by the stop requires additional power to continue movement which cannot be fulfilled by the input.

Abstract: A sun shade is disclosed which is readily convertible from a ground supported shade to a chair-back supported shade for use while sunbathing. The sun shade includes a U-shaped support member having the bottom portion of the U as a rearward support for the shade and the legs of the U being forwardly positioned. A pair of upright support members are each pivotally mounted on each of the legs of the U-shaped member, proximate to the bottom portion of the U. A canopy is pivotally mounted between the upright support members on the upper end thereof, for shielding sunlight from the region between the legs of the U-shaped member. When the shade is employed in its ground supported embodiment, a pair of anchor spikes are pivotally mounted, one on each of the legs of the U-shaped member, as a forward ground support for the shade, the spikes being driven into the ground for anchorage. The bottom portion of the U for the U-shaped member serves as the rearward ground support for the shade.

Abstract: A cylindrical gear wheel having helical teeth with different pitch diameters for the left hand and right hand sides of the teeth and convergent line of teeth in which one side of the teeth are characterized by positive values of addendum modification while the other side of the teeth has negative values of addendum modification. By positive addendum modification is meant an addition to the nominal pitch diameter to obtain the pitch diameter at one side of a tooth and by negative addendum modification is meant a substration from the nominal pitch diameter to obtain the pitch diameter of the other side of the tooth. In the range of normal values of tooth pitch (mn) from 2 to 6 mm or normal tooth module the angular difference of inclination between the left hand and right hand sides of the teeth is within the range of 30' to 3.degree. for pitch diameters up to 500 mn and the addendum modification values are in the range from 0.01 to 4 mn.

Abstract: A cylindrical gear train comprising first and second gears having helical eth of different thickness with different pitch diameters for the left hand and right hand sides of the teeth and with different nominal angles of inclination and different mesh correction for the mating left hand and right hand flanks of the teeth. Within the normal module range of m.sub.n =2-6 mm, corresponding to the normal module range of 2.pi.(mm) to 6.pi.(mm), and for pitch diameters up to 500 mm, the maximum tooth convergency is 3.degree. and the addendum modification coefficient does not exceed 0.8.

Abstract: Disclosed is a displacement pump especially suited for use in very small well bores. The pump includes a piston working in a cylinder, driven by a rotating cam shaft having closed loop cams for effecting reciprocation of the piston. The rotating cam shaft carries spool valves for positive control of liquid flow into and out of the pumping chambers. Also disclosed is a transmission mechanism especially suitable for use in reducing the speed of an electric motor power source to a level suitable for driving the cam shaft. The pump includes a small diameter high speed electric motor, on which is mounted the transmission mechanism, which in turn carries the pumping mechanism. An electrical power conduit runs through the pumping mechanism and transmission mechanism to the motor.

Abstract: A lagging body for a belt conveyor pulley comprises a wide and long rubber substrate and a number of rectangular or square small plate-like ceramic lagging elements aligned in the lateral and longitudinal directions and secured on the surface of said wide and long rubber substrate having a given thickness, wherein a lagging element is produced by adding an inorganic bonding agent essentially consisting of glassy material to ceramic particles, molding the resultant particles into a rectangular or square small plate-like article and firing or sintering the small plate-like article, and a number of the lagging elements are aligned on the surface of a wide and long length rubber substrate in the longitudinal and lateral directions and secured thereon.

Abstract: An idler pulley, which adjusts itself to variable power transmission speeds by providing a wide range of effective pulley diameters automatically, is disclosed. In its preferred form, the pulley has four spindles with freely rotating sleeves, two directed inwardly from either side, all positioned in the same plane and in changeable circular orbit, for guiding the power transmission belt or chain used with the pulley. The size of the circular orbit of the spindles, corresponding to the effective pulley diameter, is permitted to vary with the power transmission speed by the scissors-like action of the pulley side assemblies which support the spindles.

Abstract: A high-speed bevel gear transmission system for transmitting power from an input shaft to a pair of parallel outputs shafts the axes of which intersect each other. The input shaft has a pair of driving bevel gears which are fixedly mounted thereon such that the driving bevel gears face in opposite directions and which have the same number and size of teeth spirally arranged in the opposite directions each other. The output shafts are supported on angular contact ball bearings and have two driven bevel gears fixedly mounted thereon which are engaged with the driving bevel gears. The speed transmission ratio of the output shafts to the input shaft is 1.45:1 to 0.476:0.1, the relation between a pressure angle .alpha. and helix angle .beta. of the driving bevel gears and driven bevel gears, and a pitch cone angle .delta. of the driven bevel gears are defined by the formula, R=[(tan.alpha..multidot.sin .delta.)/cos .beta.]-tan.beta..multidot. cos .delta. when 0.324.ltoreq.R.ltoreq.0.1.

Abstract: A bicycle derailleur comprising a supporting member supported swingably through a first vertical shaft, the supporting member supporting a change-over frame swingably through a second horizontal shaft having an axis intersecting the axis of the first shaft substantially at a right angle therewith, a first pulley supported rotatably to the change-over frame through the second shaft and a second pulley supported rotatably to the foremost end of the change-over frame through a third horizontal shaft in parallel with the second shaft. In operation, a control wire is operated to swing the change-over frame together with the supporting member around the first shaft, thereby switching a driving chain to a selected sprocket of a multistage sprocket assembly.

Abstract: In bicycles having multi-speed gear arrangements, the automatic shifting of .Iadd.the sprocket chain controlling the .Iaddend.gears .Iadd.is .Iaddend.in response to foot pedal pressures .Iadd.and .Iaddend.is effected by fluid or electrical connections from the pedals to the .[.gear-changing.]. .Iadd.chain-shifting .Iaddend.mechanism.Iadd., .Iaddend.thereby to impart full foot control to shifting with resultant improved pedaling cadence and bicycling comfort.