Abstract: A flexible support and guide device includes a movable cable holder wound around a pair of pulleys rotatably supported on opposite ends of a support rod. The cable holder is comprised of a looped belt trained around the pulleys, and a pair of flexible tubes carried on an outer circumferential surface of the belt with ends of the tubes confronting each other mutually, the tubes accommodating within them cables. The cable holder has a movable end formed jointly by one pair of mutually confronting ends of the two tubes for enabling connection of the cables to a mobile machine or a movable machine part, and a fixed end formed jointly by the other pair of mutually confronting ends of the tubes for enabling connection of the cables to a fixed external power source.

Abstract: A stencil printing machine includes a thermal head for perforating a stencil sheet; a platen roller situated adjacent to the thermal head, the platen roller conveying the stencil sheet in a predetermined direction while holding the stencil sheet in contact with the thermal head; a printing drum situated near the thermal head and the platen roller, the printing drum being adapted to receive the stencil sheet perforated by the thermal head and the platen roller; and a discharging member situated near the platen roller on a downstream side of the predetermined direction relative to the thermal head and the platen roller, the discharging member discharging static electricity charged on the stencil sheet.

Abstract: A temporary frame system includes four masts arranged outside of a building to be constructed. The frame system includes a climbing mechanism mounted on each mast for upward and downward movement thereon, a canopy frame fixed at four corners by respective climbing mechanisms and horizontally covering the entire upper surface of the building, a plurality of overhead traveling cranes arranged on the lower surface of the canopy frame, and a jib crane movable along a guide rail provided on an upper surface of the canopy frame. The overhead traveling crane includes a main rail positioned on a lower surface of the canopy frame and subsidiary rails arranged on both sides of the main rail in parallel thereto. A transporting girder is movably supported on the main rail and subsidiary girders are movably supported on the subsidiary rails. A plurality of hoists are provided on the overhead traveling crane. The transporting girder is a dual type which has two, first and second girders.

Abstract: Strap-like step portions each having a smaller external diameter than the external diameter of an ink supply roller are provided at opposite ends of the ink supply roller provided in a drum. Guide surfaces of ink dams urged by springs are brought into contact with the strap-like step portions respectively. Inclined surfaces of the ink dams are brought into contact with the strap-like step portions and side end surfaces of the strap-like step portions respectively. Ink leaked onto the strap-like step portions is led to the inclined surfaces in conjunction with the rotation of the ink supply roller and returned to the inner side of the ink supply roller. Ink is prevented from being leaked out of the ink supply range of the ink supply roller, so that a printing apparatus and sheets of printing paper are not stained with ink. The state of contact between the ink dams and the ink supply roller is kept stable. If the elastic force of the springs is changed, the state of contact can be changed.

Abstract: A paper delivery apparatus of a printing machine includes a holding device having at least a pair of rotating members fitted, in the vicinity of both side edges of printed sheets, with a paper receiving section for holding the side edges of the printed sheets ejected from the printing machine, a driving device for rotating the rotating member to move downward in succession the printed sheets held on the paper receiving section. A paper stacking section disposed beneath the rotating body for holding the printed sheets which have been released from the paper receiving section; and a space between the paper receiving section for holding one side edge of the printed sheet and the paper receiving section for holding the other side edge of the printed sheet is set narrower at the lower part of the rotating member for discharging the printed sheet than at the upper part of the rotating member for receiving the printed sheet.

Abstract: A universal joint of the type including: a first shaft to which tripod shafts are secured radially from the axis thereof; three rollers formed at the outer peripheries thereof with spherical surfaces and with which the tripod shafts are crowned; and a second shaft provided therein with raceways identical in number with the rollers and on which the outer peripheries of the rollers roll and are supported. The universal joint further includes a plurality of oil grooves provided at contact-roll surfaces between the rollers and the cylindrical raceways.

Abstract: In a vane type rotary fluid pump or compressor, a plurality of vanes are slidably fitted in the body of a rotor at an angle with a radial plane passing through the axial center line of the rotor to move radially outwardly from the rotor in a direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the rotor. Each tip of the vanes is provided with a flat surface frictionally guided by a cylindrical inner wall of a stator housing and a taper surface extending from the front end of the flat surface toward the direction of rotation of the rotor. The flat surface of the vane has a predetermined width sealingly in contact with the inner wall of the stator housing.

Abstract: A control system for a power dividing type hydraulic transmission in which the motive power supplied from an engine is transmitted mechanically. Part of the motive power is converted to hydraulic power by hydraulic pump motors to obtain infinitely variable speed ratios. The transmission includes a hydraulic pressure control system that operates by the use of electrically controlled solenoid valves. The control system detects the rotational speeds of an input and an output shaft, and when the speed ratio between the shafts is smaller than the mode converting speed ratio, a first solenoid valve is operated to engage a first clutch. When the speed ratio is greater than the mode converting speed ratio, a second solenoid valve is operated to engage a second clutch. The engagement of the clutches is timed so that both clutches are not coincidentally disengaged.

Abstract: A rotary fluid pump or compressor having a pair of flexible diaphragm type sealing plates which are clamped on opposite ends of a stator housing by end heads to form a cylindrical pump cavity and to be pressed onto the opposite end faces of a rotor driven within the pump cavity so as to provide sealing between the suction, compression and delivery chambers. Each of the sealing plates comprises a flat flange portion clamped between the end faces of the stator housing and the end head and a substantially cone shaped portion extending radially inwardly from the flat flange portion to be pressed onto the end face of the rotor and substantially coinciding at its apex with the axis of the rotor.

Abstract: A hydraulic control device for use with an automatic speed change gear device for a diesel engine using a torque convertor and an auxiliary speed change gear device. This hydraulic control device is provided with a back pressure control valve controlled by means of a throttle pressure developed in response to a throttle opening, wherein when the throttle opening is smaller than a given opening, a pressure oil having a pressure lower than a line pressure is introduced to an accumulator, and when the throttle opening is greater than the aforesaid given opening, a pressure oil having the same pressure level as that of said line pressure is fed to said accumulator to thereby obtain a desired engaging pressure for said automatic speed change gear device, thus effectively preventing a shock due to a change in speed. This device may also be used with a gasoline engine.

Abstract: A diaphragm fluid pump comprises a diaphragm piston assembly having a flexible diaphragm interposed and hermetically clamped at the outer rim thereof between upper and lower housings. The flexible diaphragm is integrally provided with a flexible sealing member of which the outer rim is interposed and fluid-tightly clamped together with the outer rim of the diaphragm between the lower and upper housings and the inner rim is fluid-tightly secured to a portion of the piston assembly to seal a portion of the flexible diaphragm exposed within a lubrication oil chamber.

Abstract: An oil pressure control system for an automatic transmission system which includes a fluid torque converter, a transmission gear and friction engaging means adapted to be selectively supplied with line pressure for establishing a selected transmission engagement in said transmission gear, said friction engaging means being provided with a buffering accumulator which buffers its operating pressure, said accumulator comprising a fluid displacing element which is selectively supplied with different levels of oil pressure, preferably a torque converter pressure or a line pressure as a back pressure according to the operational condition of the oil pressure control system.

Abstract: A fluid pressure control system for automatic power transmissions including a source of fluid providing a controlled line pressure, a manual valve movable to a number of positions including range P (parking), range R (reverse), range N (neutral), range "3", range "2" and range "1" in the order mentioned for setting the transmission in a desired operational range and provided with at least three spaced lands. A unitary, first pressure regulator valve is provided which has at least two spaced valve lands and a fluid passage interconnecting the unitary, first pressure regulator valve and the manual valve. The fluid passage communicates with a fluid chamber provided between the valve lands of the unitary first pressure regulator valve. In the range P, one of the valve lands of the manual valve is adapted to cut the line pressure. In the range R, the aforementioned fluid passage is blocked by another of the valve lands of the manual valve.

Abstract: The embodiments of the control system for automatic transmissions for electric automobiles disclosed includes an electric motor drive control, a changeover device, a speed change control, a torque setting device, a transmitting force detector, and a motor output torque detector. The present control system enables the fluctuation of the transmission output shaft torque to be counteracted by the DC electric motor output torque for realizing extremely smooth transmission of motive power.

Abstract: In a diaphragm fluid pump, a pump housing comprises a cylinder provided therein coaxially with an operating rod of a diaphragm piston assembly hermetically assembled within the housing, and a driving mechanism for the operating rod includes a piston element mounted on the free end of the operating rod and slidably engaged within the cylinder to regulate the axial movement of the operating rod, whereby the diaphragm piston assembly is reciprocated without twisting thereof.

Abstract: A hydromechanical transmission comprises a first and a second planetary gear sets drivingly connected to an output shaft to provide a low and a high speed ratio drive power trains between a transmision input shaft and the output shaft to control the speed ratio of the output shaft and a variable ratio hydrostatic drive unit to control operation of the two planetary gear sets. Between the input shaft and the input member of the first planetary gear set, provided is a low speed range clutch by way of a speed reduction gear train to selectively connect the input shaft to the first planetary gear set. Between the input shaft and the input member of the second planetary gear set, provided is a high speed range clutch to directly connect the input shaft to the second planetary gear set on engagement thereof.

Abstract: A hydrostatic transmission includes a hydraulically controlled speed differential means drivingly connected with an output shaft for transmitting the rotation torque of an input shaft to the output shaft and including a hydraulic element functionable as a reaction element therefor, a hydraulic positive displacement pump-motor drivingly connected with the input shaft for controlling the hydraulic element in accordance with the displacement ratio thereof, and a line circuit to provide hydraulic communication between the hydraulic element and the pump-motor. In the hydrostatic transmission, a drive power train selector gear unit is disposed between the input shaft and the speed differential means to selectively complete the forward and reverse drive power trains inbetween the input shaft and the output shaft by way of the speed differential means.

Abstract: In a diaphragm vacuum pump for vehicles, a resilient cushion material is integrally secured on the diaphragm piston within the pressure reduction chamber of the pump to minimize the volume of the pressure reduction chamber when the diaphragm piston reaches its upper dead point.

Abstract: A diaphragm vacuum pump, which comprises a first and a second pressure reduction chambers respectively at the both faces of the spring loaded diaphragm piston assembly of the pump. The first and second chambers are respectively connected with a pneumatically operated device and the atmosphere and connected to each other, suction and discharge of the air in the first chamber being conducted in an opposite cycle against those in the second chamber to subsequently produce vacuum of a high degree by the reciprocation of the diaphragm piston assembly.

Abstract: A control system for a diaphragm vacuum pump comprises a vacuum sensor disposed within the vacuum chamber of a pneumatically operated device for detecting a predetermined vacuum pressure to ensure the effective operation of the device and generating an output signal therefrom. A switchover solenoid valve is disposed within the pneumatic connection between the suction port of the vacuum pump and the vacuum chamber of the device is energized in response to the output signal of the sensor to selectively open the pumping chamber of the pump to the air through the suction port and close the vacuum chamber of the device.