Abstract: A sleeve assembly for sanding, rust removing, and pit filling on a piston rod of a hydraulic cylinder or the like includes a sanding component, a rust removing component and a pit filling component. The sanding component comprises a rigid annular outer member, a resilient annular intermediate member adhesively secured to the inner surface of the outer member, and an abrasive annular inner member adhesively secured to the inner surface of the intermediate member and in interference contact with the piston rod. The rust removing component comprises an annular upper ring member composed of a rigid material and an elastomeric annular lower C-ring member having brass or bronze particles imbedded therein. The pit filling component comprises an annular upper ring member composed of a rigid material and an elastomeric annular lower C-ring member having lead particles imbedded therein. Clamp means releasably engages the members of each of the components about the piston rod.

Abstract: A grinding method for grinding spherical rollers is disclosed, wherein the roller has a spherical main diameter and a spherical end form ground thereon, and both spherical forms are ground on the same fixturing set-up. The workpiece is carried on a pair of locating shoes and the pre-ground flat end is driven with a magnetic face driver. A grinding wheel spindle carries first and second wheel forms for forming the roller spherical surfaces, and the surfaces are ground sequentially by feeding the first spherical form radially into the workpiece to grind the diameter, and thereafter axially shifting the wheel spindle to present the second wheel form in position where it is radially fed into the workpiece to grind the spherical end form of the roller.

Abstract: An angular construction module made of two separate bedrooms alongside a double bathroom unit. The bathroom unit has a dividing wall dividing it into two equal symmetrical bathroom spaces. The dividing wall has a diagonal wall portion on which lavatories are disposed back-to-back. Each bedroom has a wall in common with the bathroom unit. A door access is provided in each common wall for entry from each respective bedroom to a corresponding one only of the bathroom spaces.

Abstract: New chromatographic materials have been developed to serve as the stationary phase of columns used in the separation of atmospheric gases. These materials consist of a crosslinked porous polymer matrix, e.g., a divinylbenzene polymer, into which has been embedded an inorganic complexed ion such as N,N'-ethylene-bis(acetylacetoniminato)-cobalt (II). Organic nitrogenous bases, such as pyridine, may be incorporated into the chelate polymer complexes to increase their chromatographic utility. With such materials, the process of gas chromatography is greatly simplified, especially in terms of time and quantity of material needed for a gas separation.

Abstract: The method of affixing a bolt in a hole in foundations formed of materials such as concrete, stone or rock, wood and the like which includes inserting a bolt in said hole, filling the space surrounding said bolt with a plurality of balls, pouring a liquid curable resin into the hole to fill the interstices between the balls and then curing the resin and the resulting structure.

Abstract: A dam member is positioned adjacent the junction of an upstanding wall and a floor in a building structure. The dam member is trapezoidal in cross-section with a base surface attached to the floor with sealant means and an inner side surface facing the wall and tapered away from the wall from the base surface to a parallel top surface. A cap member is removably positioned between the wall and the dam member inner surface and is spaced above the floor to define an enclosed channel with the dam member, the wall and the floor. The cap member is trapezoidal in cross-section with an outer side surface tapering away from the wall from a bottom surface to a parallel top surface, the cap member outer side surface cooperating with the dam member inner side surface to enclose the channel. A plurality of dam members and cap members are positioned end-to-end about the periphery of the floor to direct water leaking through the wall-floor junction to a central drain for removal from the building.

Abstract: A modular flooring for installation on a subfloor and a method for producing it is disclosed. Each modular elongated section is substantially a U-shaped with the central part of the U being the weight bearing floor section.A series of parallel slots is formed perpendicular to the elongated dimension, in the weight bearing surface of each floor section. The parallel slots each are formed having side members which are folded down so as to achieve a slot which eliminates the presence of fractured metal or cutting edges along the weight bearing portion of the floor section. On one of the supporting side walls of each floor section is punched a pair of slots. On the other supporting side wall of each floor section is punched a pair of locking tabs. The floor sections may be placed adjacent one another so that the tabs extending from the side wall of one floor section will interlock with the slots punched in the adjacent side wall of the next floor section.

Abstract: A thermal insulation structure for windows including a plastic multi-cell layer, a flat transparent plastic sheet supporting the cell layer, ribbing support for each cell on the flat sheet and a transparent adhesive coated on the flat sheet. The insulation structure is transparent to outside light and provides a simple means for significantly reducing heat loss through the window.

Abstract: A method and fixture for lateral and longitudinal positioning of mobile home or modular housing units on the foundation site is disclosed, particularly related to positioning more than one module sometimes referred to as double wide or other structural units, such as modular subunits with respect to each other incidental to assembly operations. The method includes the procedure of initially installing one of the double wide or other structural unit on a foundation including a plurality of stanchions, positioning a second structural unit adjacent the position of the first structural unit with a clearance space therebetween for carrying out steps preparatory to joining of the units, the second unit being positioned on a series of temporary cross beams supported on the foundation stanchions and engaging the structural units underframe members.

Abstract: An adjustable pipe sleeve for an anchor bolt comprises a length of cylindrical pipe supported in depending position on an anchor bolt by an adapter assembly which includes one part threaded onto an upper end portion of the bolt and another part threadably engaged with the upper end of the pipe. Coengagable bearing surfaces on the parts cooperate to maintain the pipe in an adjusted axial position and in coaxial alignment with the bolt.

Abstract: Apparatus for making fiber insulation from paper comprises a preshredder having a semi-cylindrical perforate basket with a passageway behind it. An air inlet extends behind the basket into the passageway and an air outlet is located at the front of the passageway. A flail rotatably mounted coaxial in the basket is driven by a motor for shredding paper deposited from a conveyor into the basket. A blower, connected to the preshredder, passes the paper segments to a surge bin where the air and paper segments are separated. The separated paper segments accumulate in the surge bin and are withdrawn from it at a constant predetermined rate by a conveyor and deposited into a duct which interconnects the surge bin and a finishing mill. The air then enters this duct to continue transporting the paper. A dry chemical dispensing device disperses flame retardant material into the duct. The finishing mill includes a large centrifugal fan rotatably mounted in a cylindrical cavity and driven by a motor.

Abstract: An automatic wicketted bag leader is suited to load one bag while simultaneously closing and sealing a preceding bag, each bag to contain a predetermined amount of a commodity. A hopper feeds the commodity when desired into a wicket bag which has been opened via mechanism connected to a retractable hopper-closing plate. A bag clamping mechanism simultaneously moves into position adjacent the sides of the opened bag and clamps the sides at about the midpoint thereof such that when the plate returns to its hopper-closing position the bag sides are drawn apart at the opening to bring the bag faces close together. The bag opening changes its configuration from generally square to a long rectangle. Clamping mechanism then moves laterally to encompass the bag opening and to clamp the two faces together and to then withdraw the clamped bag from below the hopper. The clamped bag may be heat sealed as it is withdrawn and then fed to an output conveyor. During withdrawal another bag may be loaded.

Abstract: The harvesting of grapes from vines grown on a horizontal trellis-supported wire wherein the wire and fruit-bearing portions of the vine which are secured to the wire are directly held and uniformly shaken along the length of the wire with no shaking energy being directly imparted to the vine trunks or to the foliage canopy over the fruit-bearing portions of the vines and with minimal disturbance of the canopy.

Abstract: In a rotary separator, cylindrical threshing, frusto-conical separating, and centrifugal fan sections are arranged coaxially and in tandem. A fixed grate including threshing and separating portions surrounds and generally conforms to a rotor profile. A frusto-conical collector housing encloses the forward part of the separator and feeds threshed and separated grain to a grain cleaning unit, the screen elements of which, along with the collector housing, rotate concentricaly with the grate while at the same time reciprocating axially. A stationary cylindrical housing surrounds the cleaner unit and clean grain and tailings pass centrifugally from the cleaner screens to separate annular channels, to be swept around the inside of the housing by paddles moving with the cleaner elements to tangential discharge points near the top of the separator for transfer to clean grain and tailings return augers respectively.

Abstract: A cutterbar for a crop harvesting machine having narrow pitch guard prongs and knife points. The guard prongs are formed on guard sections, and the knife points are formed on knife sections, wherein the guard sections include a plurality of prongs and the knife sections include a plurality of points and symmetrically arranged mounting holes allow mounting the guard sections on a conventional bar back. The knife sections include form-beveled and serrated knife edges, together with fastener assemblies for connecting the knife sections to the knife back such as to permit easy replacement of damaged knife sections. A drive assembly for the knife bar applies reciprocating action to the knife bar. Feeder shields protect the drive assembly and enhance the feed of crop to the collecting auger.

Abstract: This invention relates to a round baler for windrowed fibrous agricultural materials in which the bales are formed by a two-part frame having a generally cylindrical baling zone therein defined by side wall members on the frame and roller members extending between the side wall members and distributed around the frame. The frame includes a conventional pickup and conveying apparatus to move the agricultural materials from the ground into the entrance of the cylindrical baling zone. A suitable drive means, adapted to be coupled to a power takeoff of a draft vehicle or mounted on the baler, rotates the roller members to form a bale of the agricultural materials which are fed to the baling zone by the pickup. The frame parts are separated through hydraulic actuators to open the baling zone and deposit the round bale therefrom.

Abstract: The disclosure is of a haymaking machine with a rotary rake head and a control mechanism for adjustable tool-carrier arms which are mounted for pivoting in support bearings which are wedged between two covers, one of which is situated above the control mechanism of the tool-carrier arms and is fast with the drive hub of the rotary rake head, and the other of which is situated below the said control mechanism of the tool-carrier arms.

Abstract: A traveller useful for either Z- or S-twisting in an otherwise conventional twisting or spinning frame. The traveller is provided with a roller which has a cylindrical surface mounted for rotation about an axis which, when in operation, lies in a plane normal to the path of the traveller and which plane contains the axis of the associated spool. The axis of the roller cylindrical surface intersects the rotation axis of the spool at an angle of from 30 to 60 degrees and preferably between 45 and 60 degrees. The traveller, therefore, is independent of rotation direction. Specific length to diameter ratios are disclosed as are relations of roller diameter to thickness of threads and the like engaging the roller during operation.

Abstract: Wire rope is made non-specular by making the wire for the top layer of wire rope non-specular before the wire is stranded into a wire rope. This method and the product thereof are new to the wire rope art. Such wire rope is not contaminated by detrimental abrasives or other products that would become embedded into the wire rope should it be made non-specular by abrasive blasting or other methods after the wire rope is completely stranded. Wire rope that is not conspicious is preferred in many locations.

Abstract: A calendar timepiece which does not require any manual date correction at the end of even months is disclosed. The timepiece comprises an even months date correction claw mounted on a date rotational wheel and displaced into a correction position when a claw driving coil is energized by a signal delivered from means for discriminating odd months from even months.

Abstract: The construction of an analogue crystal wrist watch which comprises a base plate, a power source battery cell on said base plate for providing energy to the circuit of said watch, a crystal oscillating element for generating a signal upon receipt of energy, an electronic circuit for dividing the frequency of the output signal from said crystal oscillating element, a frequency division circuit included in said electronic circuit, a step motor comprising a drive coil connected to said electronic circuit, a hand indication means driven by said step motor, an external operation member for correcting said hand indication means and a reset lever interlocked with said external operation member for resetting said electronic circuit.

Abstract: A chronometric indicator has a multidigit display each of whose digits is formed by a plurality of individually energizable digit segments having respective digit-segment connections and having a common digit-display connection so that simultaneous energization of the common connection with any of the digit-segment connections will optically activiate the respective digit segments. An annular array of sixty angularly equispaced analog display segments surrounds the multidigit display and has an analog-segment connection for each part and inner and outer rings subdividing the analog display segments into inner and outer parts. Simultaneous energization of the inner or outer rings and one of the analog-segment connections will optically activate the corresponding inner or outer part. Each of the digit-display connections is connected to a respective one of the analog display segments.

Abstract: The polygonal flat glass 1a stretches itself out to the edge of the watchcase except on two diametrically opposed sides, where it is held between portions 3 by cylindrical pins 6 clamped within through holes formed by two semicylindrical grooves 7, 8 provided in the metallic case section and in the glass, respectively. The glass 1a and the pins 6 are held transversely in place by the pressure which gaskets 10, 11 exert on the glass. Rough walls of grooves 7, 8 and pins softer than the metallic case section and the glass increase the clamping action of gaskets 10, 11. An opaque mask formed under a peripheral glass area hides gasket 11 and the upper face of the spacing ring 14. The glass sides secured to the middle case section 2a could also be curvilinear.

Abstract: A power supply chain having a pair of parallel chain strands spaced by connecting webs provided with cross arms and separators defining openings for the accommodation of power lines. The cross arms, the separators, or both are adjustable to enable the sizes of the openings to be varied to fit power lines of different diameters.

Abstract: Link unit of the U-shaped type for use in making continuous chains by interfitting connection with pintles of the base segment of the unit between and to the spaced leg segments of a preceding unit in the chain wherein the leg segments of the units are provided at their ends with slotted bosses for receiving a connecting pintle, the boss slots are adapted to receive plug welds to rigidly weld and attach a connecting pintle to the bosses, and outwardly extending arms are positioned on the leg segments of the link unit forward of and adjacent to the leg segment bosses. In preferred embodiments the plug weld slots are positioned on the rear faces of the leg segment bosses to minimize shear on the plug weld. The link is interchangeable with links in existing chain systems and has improved investment and operating cost characteristics and improved strength and wear properties.

Abstract: A chain of the trolley conveyor type has T-headed pins and links with slots at each chain joint for assembly and disassembly wherever desired. The slots of the center link are slightly restricted to prevent disassembly when not desired, as in handling the chain. Also, U-shaped center link bushings in which the pins are turnable and with which the pins may pivot for chain side-flexing provide a restriction to assembly and disassembly and particularly the latter so that unintended disassembly is prevented.

Abstract: A low pressure fuel tube delivers fuel to a fuel injector disposed in the central position of the carburetor dome where it is conducted along a plurality of radially extending passages to the periphery of the injector. A high pressure air supply is provided directly to the peripheral fuel flow, in a substantially radial direction, by a disc surrounding the nozzle and having a plurality of radially extending passageways formed therein. A portion of the fuel is blasted directly onto a surrounding venturi surface where it is swirled in a given direction and then exits the downstream end of the venturi where it interacts with a counterrotating pattern of air from the secondary swirler flow to be atomized into a mist. Another portion of the air-blasted fuel from the venturi flows in the axial direction to also enter the combustor as a finely atomized fuel/air mixture.

Abstract: The apparatus according to the present invention includes means for conducting secondary air into the exhaust lines of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine, which conducts the secondary air into exhaust passages for one or more of the cylinders, and means for conducting a requisite amount of atmospheric air into the intake lines of the all or a part of the cylinders being available for said secondary air conduction, in response to an abrupt change of the negative pressure in the intake pipe through a mixture control valve.

Abstract: An exhaust gas diffuser to be connected to the discharge end of an exhaust pipe of an engine, having a tubular body of a relatively flattened cross-sectional shape and having opposite open axial ends, wherein the discharge end of the exhaust pipe is connected to one of the open opposite ends while the openings left at opposite sides of the discharge end of the exhaust pipe form first external air inlet ports, wherein second external air inlet ports are provided at opposite flattened wall portions of the tubular body with upstream edges of the second external air inlet ports being obliquely bent inwardly so as to define a throttling nozzle, while the other open axial end of the tubular body forms an exhaust port through which exhaust gases discharged from the exhaust pipe are discharged mixed with air entrained principally through the second external air inlet ports.

Abstract: A primary pump drive for automatic motor vehicle transmissions, in which the primary pump is adapted to be driven directly from the input and is arranged with its axis parallel to the input axis. The pump is constructed as an internally toothed pump and its internally toothed wheel is provided with teeth at the external circumference thereof, into which engage the teeth of a gear connected with the input.

Abstract: A power transmission including a motor, a "fixed-fill" fluid coupling and a gear box, at least the "fixed-fill" fluid coupling of which is liquid cooled.

Abstract: A pumping unit for a well pump has a surface main cylinder with a main piston reciprocable therein, the piston having a connection to a standard well pump. In a flow cylinder of a relatively large diameter, a flow piston reciprocates within and divides the flow cylinder into a first flow chamber and a second flow chamber. The first flow chamber is in communication with the main cylinder. Air under pressure substantially to counterbalance the load on the well pump connection is supplied to the second flow chamber. There is a drive cylinder divided into a first drive chamber and a second drive chamber by a drive piston connected to but substantially smaller in diameter than the flow piston.

Abstract: The invention provides a device for extracting energy from waves on a liquid, the device having a chamber with an opening for the flow of liquid into and out of the chamber to provide a quantity of the liquid which is arranged to oscillate in the chamber to provide energy from these oscillations. In order to maximize the energy absorption efficiency of the device, that portion of the device to be submerged and lie in a vertical plane aligned in the direction of propagation of the waves is of asymmetric shape, and the device is arranged to be held in a manner to inhibit movement of the device itself in response to the waves.

Abstract: Each directional control valve of a load responsive hydraulic system supplies a flow of signal fluid to a work port channel thereof and pressurizes this flow of signal fluid to a predetermined pressure magnitude above the load actuating pressure in the work port channel to provide a synthetic signal pressure. Fluid logic is provided for the selection of the highest synthetic signal pressure from any of the directional control valves and for application of this highest synthetic signal pressure to an effective output operator for the control of the pressure and effective output of the pump.

Abstract: A vehicle brake booster and master cylinder assembly has a vacuum suspended booster section which is controlled by movement of the vehicle brake pedal. A hydraulic booster section is in series with the vacuum suspended booster section, and a master cyclinder unit is in series with the hydraulic booster section. The assembly is so arranged that in normal operation the vehicle operator obtains boosted brake actuating pressures by operation of the vacuum suspended booster which acts through the hydraulic booster mechanism without operating the hydraulic booster. When greater brake actuating pressures are required, as indicated by increased brake pedal force exerted by the operator, the vacuum booster reaches its limit or runout condition and the hydraulic booster is operated so as to continue the increase in master cylinder output pressure.

Abstract: A resilient seal cap is coupled over an upper opening of a reservoir casing to define an interior air space with the upper surface of brake fluid in the casing. The seal cap is formed integral with a first annular lip co-operating with the inner wall of the casing to provide an inlet check valve permitting the flow of air into the interior air space and with a second annular lip co-operating with a valve plate secured to the center of the casing to provide an outlet check valve permitting the flow of air out from the interior air space to the exterior.

Abstract: A master cylinder for use in a vehicle braking system includes a main body defining a cylinder bore therein and a piston working in the cylinder bore. A sleeve is inserted into the cylinder bore and engages the main body with a projection-and-recess arrangement therebetween thereby restricting the retracting movement of the piston.

Abstract: A solar powered engine and tracking system comprises a piston working within a cylinder for turning a drive shaft for driving an electrical generator or performing other useful work, a solar concentrator comprising a plurality of mirrors, each reflecting Sun light on a common focal point on the end of the cylinder for heating a flash boiler located thereon, preheated water from a source is injected into the flash boiler by a pump powered by the drive shaft timed according to piston movement after operating the piston, the steam is then vented from the boiler by valve means operated from the drive shaft. A starter motor is provided to initially start the engine operating by rotating the drive shaft until the piston movement is self sustaining. The entire device is enclosed in a solar energy collector panel for elevating the temperature of the system so as to maintain the water at a sufficient temperature with a minimum of external heating.

Abstract: Improved power cycles for improving the production of power and refrigeration and for conserving thermal energy, utilizing as a common basic characteristic, a hydride-dehydride-hydrogen power cycle in which hydrogen is reversibly combined with a hydride-forming material at a relatively low temperature and pressure, the hydrided material is then heated at constant volume to chemically compress the hydrogen, and finally the material is dehydrided by further heating the material to release hydrogen gas at relatively high pressure and temperature. The pressurized high temperature hydrogen gas as thus developed is used in various ways for producing power and refrigeration, including functioning as a low temperature heat sink for certain auxiliary or ancillary power cycles, prior to recycling the hydrogen gas for reuse in the described hydride-dehydride-hydrogen cycle.

Abstract: A device for supplying coolant to a cryostat has a container containing liquified gas. An insulated first tube supplies coolant gas from the container to the cryostat. An end part of this tube is located inside the container and is bent into a U-shape so that the bend is immersed in the liquified gas, but the mouth of the tube at the free end thereof inside the container, opens above the level of the liquified gas so that the coolant gas can enter the first tube. After leaving the cryostat, the coolant is conveyed to a suction inlet of a pump which propels the coolant along a second tube which opens into the container below the liquid level. A heat exchanger to give a cooling effect is disposed adjacent this U-bend.

Abstract: This invention relates to cryopumps, and consists in the incorporation of walls for trapping by condensation exemplified by outer faces of partitions, and walls for trapping by adsorption, exemplified by inner faces of these partitions. These walls define a confined area in the closed position, in which the adsorbent is isolated from condensable gases. Once these gases have been condensed on the said outer faces, the partitions are opened to place the adsorbent layers in communication with the remainder of the pumping enclosure.The invention is applicable to the production of high and uncontaminated vacua (in particular for the production of thin films).

Abstract: Fluid to be conditioned is admitted to first passageways of a heat exchanger and thereafter to a point of use, traversing flow conducting means which include the second passageways of the heat exchanger and fluid conditioning means which reduces the energy level of the fluid admitted to the second passageways below the energy level of the fluid admitted to the first passageways so as to increase the energy level of the fluid flowing through the second passageways by heat exchange with the fluid flowing through the first passageways.

Abstract: An ice maker having structure for forming an ice column which is passed through a constricting nozzle. A delivery structure is arranged to receive the ice column and cause selectively the shearing of the ice column into full sized ice bodies, approximately half size ice bodies, or cracked ice. The delivery structure may include a breaker tube having an inwardly directed projection and defining a deflecting structure for shearing the ice at preselected intervals. The delivery structure may further include a selectively installable adapter defining a second inwardly directed projection for causing shearing of the ice column at preselected intervals less than that effected by the projection in the breaker tube. A blade may be removably associated with the adapter for selectively causing shattering of the ice column so as to form cracked ice, when desired. An extension tube may be associated with the breaker tube for delivering the ice bodies and cracked ice in any direction from the ice maker.

Abstract: An improved flexible drive coupling is provided in which a driver and driven mechanisms are in adjacent housings that are fixedly connected by a shroud through which the drive coupling extends. The driver and driven gear hubs, respectively, are interconnected through a flexible spacer member having corresponding meshing gear elements wherein the spacer and at least one of said gear hubs have longitudinally extending, aligning lines which are slideably engageable when the gear elements of said spacer and hub are in spaced-apart relation to maintain the gear elements in meshing alignment where said respective housings and shroud are moved longitudinally toward each other during assembly. Thus external access is provided for positioning said gear elements in meshing alignment before said housings and shroud are brought into final mating position.

Abstract: A controlled slippage, limited-torque transmission comprises a driving member, a driven member spaced therefrom, and a transmission belt wrapped about the members to transmit torque from the driving member to the driven member. An annular split slippage member is slippingly mounted on one of the driving and driven members and is disposed between that one member and a belt wrap thereabout. The slippage member substantially encircles that one member and is capable of ready assembly and disassembly with respect thereto.

Abstract: Circumferential adjustment is provided in a generally wedge-shaped insert sewn into a slit extending downwardly in the upper thigh engaging portion of the elastic stocking and the insert is divided longitudinally along the medial portion to provide first and second insert panels. A strip of hooked fasteners is sewn to the free edge of one of the insert panels for holding the panels in circumferentially adjusted overlapping relationship. Spaced-apart lines of walewise extending special stitch loops are provided on the insert panels to indicate the amount of overlap of the insert panels.

Abstract: Apparatus for heat-treating textile yarn includes a heater tube (3) through which the yarn is passed, the tube (3) having a holder (2) at each end and a seal in the form of a stopper (5) fitted into a neck (4). The stopper (5) has a groove (10) on its outer surface for guiding the yarn through the heater tube (3). Steam is introduced at the yarn entry end of the heater tube (3), passes over the groove (10) and is removed via passages (11) in the stopper and a suction pipe (7) connected to the passages. The heater tube (3), suction tube (7) and steam supply tube (8) are surrounded by an insulating housing (1) to minimize heat losses.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for dyeing carpets and the like in random patterns and multiple colors. Dye is applied in liquid streams from troughs having rollers and doctor blade scrapers. The troughs are arranged in pairs along the path of carpet movement, one trough in each pair being above the other trough of the pair. Dye streams from the pairs of troughs are broken up into droplets before contacting the carpet in such a way as to prevent substantial mixing of the streams prior to contact with the carpet. The particular arrangement of the trough pairs and dye streams results in a dyed carpet of high quality at a substantial savings in equipment cost and quantity of dye used.

Abstract: The permutation block comprises a locking slider normally biased for movement in a locking position, a control slider normally biased for movement in the locking direction and being manually controllable for movement in an opposite direction toward holding discs of a plurality of interlocking devices determining the unlocking code for the lock, a coupling member arranged between the locking slider and the control slider, the coupling member being shiftable transversely to the direction of movement of the sliders from a normal coupling position in which it transfers the movement of the control slider to the locking slider, to a holding position in which it decouples the control slider from the locking slider to allow the control slider to enter notches provided in the holding discs when the latter are aligned in a code setting position.

Abstract: A suspension device for fastening keys onto a carrier member, which comprises a U-shaped holding member connectable to a carrier member and includes two oppositely located legs with two substantially parallel walls defining with each other a longitudinally extending slot. The two legs are interconnected at one end thereof where they define a preferably rounded receiving section wider than the longitudinally extending slot. The device furthermore includes a coupling member detachably connectable to the holding member and having one end provided with a web of substantially rectangular cross section the diagonal of which is shorter than the diameter of the receiving section whereas the narrow sides of the web are shorter and its wider sides are longer than the clear width of the slot, at least the wider sides of the web being inclined relative to the main plane of the coupling member, and the other end of the coupling member being provided with an opening for receiving and holding keys.