Abstract: A lubrication system for a vertical shaft engine includes a crank case having an upper and a lower wall, a vertical crank shaft, a vertical balancing shaft, each pair of upper and lower bosses formed in said upper and lower walls for rotatably supporting these shafts an oil pump having a drive shaft housed in a lower boss for supporting said balancing shaft, and adopted to be driven by said balancing shaft, and an oil feeding passage for feeding lubricating oil from said pump to any part desired to be lubricated in said engine.

Abstract: A method of making a rotor of a fluid energy translating device wherein the rotor has an annular passage entirely within the rotor, a plurality of radially extending vane slots intersecting the passage and axial openings intersecting the annular passage. The method comprises forming an annular groove in the periphery of a solid body, closing the open side of the groove to provide the annular passage, forming radial vane slots in the body intersecting the annular passage, and forming axial openings in the body intersecting the annular passage.

Abstract: A parallel and outer axial rotating piston compressor has at least one helical main rotor and a corresponding auxiliary rotor meshing therewith. The main rotor includes a plurality of teeth, the flanks of which are configured as open screw surfaces defined by the screwing of a generating straight line, crossing the screw axis obliquely for each surface. The straight line forms a first inclination angle with a plane disposed perpendicular with the rotary axis of the main rotor. The screw surfaces define a throat screw line. A line tangent to the throat screw line forms a second angle of inclination of the plane. The first inclination angle is smaller than the second inclination angle. The slope of the generating straight line and the slope of the tangent line have opposite signs.

Abstract: A sliding vane positive displacement pump with a spring biased mechanical vane actuating system. The pump includes a case having an inlet and an outlet with a liner having a cam-shaped inner surface eccentrically disposed therein. A rotor having radially oriented slots is rotatably positioned within the case, and radial holes interconnect opposite pairs of slots. A vane is slidingly positioned in each slot. A vane actuator assembly, including a hollow sleeve with a plunger reciprocably disposed therein, is installed in each slot. A spring is positioned in the sleeve and bears against one end of the plunger and a closed end of the sleeve. The spring biases the sleeve and plunger so that each is in contact with the inwardmost edge of a vane. Each plunger defines a slot therein, and each sleeve defines a transverse hole therethrough corresponding to the slot. A pin, pressed into the transverse hole, extends through the slot for preventing the plunger and sleeve from becoming separated.

Abstract: A sealing for a rotary impeller blade partially extending outwardly from a rotor of an impeller pump includes two sealing strips of plastics, the ends of which abut against the opposing side faces of the blade in the region of a slot found in the rotor, and two respective supporting members of metal. Each supporting member secured to the assigned sealing strips reliably supports the sealing strip whereby the sealing strips resist to vibrations occurring at high speeds of the pump during operation.

Abstract: The present invention overcomes performance losses of positive displacement compressors due to internal liquid recirculation. This is achieved by removing or scavenging liquid that leaks out of the compression pocket before it is captured by another lower-pressure compression pocket of the compressor. The scavenged liquid is collected in the bottom of the compressor pressure vessel and cooled before it is reinjected into the compressor to complete the cycle.

Abstract: Disclosed is apparatus for automatically applying lubricant in a lifting device which raises and lowers a platform by intermeshing of pinions of a jack-up device mounted on the platform and racks provided in the longitudinal direction of legs for supporting the platform, rockable arms supported by a frame of the jack-up device being provided above the pinion meshing with the rack, a roller brush being rotatably provided on the rockable arms so as to come into sliding contact with the pinion, and a lubricant supplying device being connected to the roller brush.

Abstract: In a roots compressor for compressing of gaseous media, in which alternately in the delivery chambers formed in each case from the respective Roots pistons and the associated delivery space walls of the cylinder and the end side plates, after closure of the suction side, delivery medium is fed in from the delivery side via channels in the cylinder surfaces, the base surface and the side surfaces of the channels are incorporated at least partially in an insert which is releasably secured in a recess in the cylinder wall.

Abstract: A universally-movable machine part includes a disc member having a disc shaft and a recessed slot defining a bearing surface conforming to a smooth cylindrically-curved plane. At least one planar vane member defines a lower bearing surface conforming to the smooth cylindrically-curved plane of the disc slot so as to be pivotally slidably mated therewith. A rotor member having a rotor shaft defines a groove which establishes a plane passing through a geometric center point of the device and in which an upper portion of the vane member is accepted so as to be pivotal within the established plane. The rotor member also defines a lower surface upwardly and outwardly divergent relative to the geometric center point of the device to permit the rotor member to be pivotally movable about an axis mutually perpendicular with the axis defined by the disc shaft and the axis about which the vane member pivots so that the rotor member will also be pivotally movable together with the vane member.

Abstract: An automatic lubricator for chain conveyors with a pivoting arm having a roller contacting the chain and moving between the chain side links to place lubricating nozzles along the chain center line. A magnetic proximity sensor on the pivoting arm activates the fluid pump when the nozzles are in position to deliver lubricating fluid to the chain pins. Improved metering pump apparatus diverts fluid from the metering pump to a fluid return line immediately at the end of a lubrication cycle. The metering pump chamber is then primed for the next cycle. Drippage from the lubrication nozzles is eliminated.

Abstract: A positive displacement reciprocating pump for conveying a liquid or gaseous fluid is disclosed and which comprises a fluid enclosure having a movable piston means mounted therein which sealably divides the enclosure into a pumping chamber on one side and an actuating chamber on the other side. The piston means may comprise either a slideable piston or a flexible diaphragm. An inlet valve and a separate outlet valve are each connected to the pumping chamber, and a control system is provided for intermittently supplying a pressurized working fluid to the actuating chamber so as to intermittently move the piston means in the discharge direction, with the piston means being moved in the opposite or suction direction by either the pressure of the fluid being conveyed, or a suitable spring.

Abstract: A scoop device for dividing oil in metered quantity in both directions from the scoop, in which the intake scoop passages deliver oil to a circumferential channel, from which it is discharged laterally into opposed grooves, the latter having notches in the outer sidewall thereof for metering the flow of oil from these grooves to the devices to be lubricated.

Abstract: A surgical instrument for dilating blood vessels comprises: a front multilinkage mechanism; an intermediate hollow cable-wire structure combination; and a rear manually operated control mechanism. The rear manually operated control mechanism further comprises: a rearmost thumb ring being connected to a stationary member; and index finger and ring finger rings being connected to a longitudinally movable member. Motion of the index finger and the ring finger rings relative to the thumb ring causes similar motion of a wire which is located in the hollow cable. The front multilinkage mechanism further comprises: a plurality of longitudinal ribs being located on a rear stationary section; a similar plurality of rear linkages; a similar plurality of front linkages; and a similar plurality of longitudinal ribs being located on a movable front section.

Abstract: A gear pump is provided with a pair of rotatable pumping gears for pumping fluid between inlet and outlet ports formed in a gear pump housing, wherein a portion of the housing is adapted for positional adjustment to reduce internal operating clearances and thereby regenerate pump output performance without requiring pump disassembly or rebuilding.

Abstract: A rotor for rotary piston engines having flanks coated with coatings of a modified fluorine resin. The modified fluorine resin is prepared with a fluorine resin, such as tetrafluoroethylene resin, and a binder resin, such as epoxy resin. The coating layer is formed by applying the modified resin to the flank surface of the rotor and drying it at a low temperature to have the resin adhered to the flanks. The coating is heat-resistant and has an anti-peel-off property. The coating is softened during engine operation so that it can catch deposits of unburnt residual substances. The rotor is therefore effective to prevent carbon lock.

Abstract: An improved rotory positive displacement blower (10) of the Roots-type with reduced airborne noise and superior efficiency. The blower includes a housing (12) defining generally cylindrical chambers (32, 34) having cylindrical wall surfaces (20a, 20b) and containing meshed lobed rotors (14, 16) having the lobes (14a, 14b, 14c, 16a, 16b, 16c) thereon formed with an end-to-end helical twist according to the relation 360.degree./2n, where n equals the number of lobes per rotor. Preferably, n equals three. The blower housing (12) also defines inlet and outlet ports (36, 38) and the intersections of wall surfaces (20a, 20b) define a cusp (20d) associated with the inlet port (36) and a cusp (20e) associated with outlet port (38). The inlet and outlet port openings are skewed in opposite directions to increase the time the top lands of the lobes are in sealing relation with cylindrical walls (20a, 20b) of chambers ( 32, 34).

Abstract: A screw rotor profile for both male and female rotors is generated from a single rack in which each individual rack segment includes four discrete circular arc segments and two discrete straight line segments. The leading and trailing flanks of the lobes of both the male and female rotors generated by the rack include involute portions disposed between tangent circular-arc-generated portions. A method for developing the rack is also disclosed.

Abstract: A seal for a gear ball joint in a progressing cavity pump. The seal includes a flexible seal member having a depending flange portion including five sealing surfaces for sealing against mating parts of the joint assembly. The seal also includes an annular stiffening wire molded within the flange portion to provide dimensional stability during seal molding, structural support during assembly and increased working life.

Abstract: A hydraulic screw machine including a drive screw and at least one running screw co-operating therewith are arranged inside a housing, the drive screw being united with a shaft extending out through the housing at the high pressure side of the machine and being provided with a balancing piston for balancing a part of the axial force acting on the drive screw and also with a collar which together with a wall portion of the housing forms a hydrostatic axial bearing for taking up the remaining axial force acting on the drive screw. The bearing surfaces of the axial bearing are kept separated by a spring means during starting and similar operating conditions. An axially limitedly movable rolling bearing is mounted in association with the hydrostatic axial bearing and takes up axial forces on the drive screw occurring in certain operating conditions.

Abstract: A rotary compressor has a plurality of vanes which are slidably disposed in radial slots of a rotor to define fluid chambers in cooperation with a cylindrical housing. The radially innermost end of each vane, rotor and opposite ends of the housing define a back-pressure chamber which is supplied with a pressure during a suction stroke for maintaining the associated vane in sealing contact with the inner wall of the housing. Each of opposite ends of the housing has a unique configuration which damps the pressure in the back-pressure chamber when the chamber is fluidly isolated from a source of the pressure supply during a compression stroke, thereby eliminating excessive friction between the vane and the housing.