Abstract: Apparatus for producing a tube with successive corrugations of different configuration from a tubular blank of uniform diameter mainly comprises a central pin having a shaft portion fixed only at one end to a stationary support and having at the other end a radially enlarged head portion cooperating with radially inwardly movable clamping and forming jaws to clamp a portion of a tubular blank therebetween. The apparatus includes further a tubular member guided on the shaft portion of the central pin and movable in axial direction by hydraulically operated members cooperating therewith.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming a stator for a dynamoelectric machine by inserting prewound coils into a slotted stator core includes enlarging the slot openings or gap between certain adjacent pairs of stator teeth, placing the prewound stator windings in selected stator core slots and thereafter reducing the slot opening or gap between those certain adjacent pairs of teeth. The disclosed apparatus includes a stator bore support and a series of punches to be placed in stator slots and collapsed radially inwardly to bend the stator teeth tips to conform to the bore support. An otherwise conventional coil inserting or injecting machine has unique blades, each of which has a pair of elongated depressions for accepting the respective formed stator teeth tips, and a pair of ribs outside the depression for spanning the corresponding tooth.

Abstract: The mill includes a stand on which at least three work rolls are mounted. At least two of the work rolls are secured in the roll housing chocks and provided with a drive means. The rolls rotate in opposite directions at different peripheral speeds increasing along the passline. At least one work roll is provided with a screwdown. The mill according to the invention for rolling metal strip is characterized by the axis of the middle work roll being offset with respect to the plane passing through the axes of the extreme work rolls towards the point where the metal strip being worked enters the first pair of work rolls, formed with the middle and the first extreme work rolls, as viewed in the direction of the passline, and towards the point of the metal strip emergence from the second pair of work rolls, formed with the middle work roll and the second extreme work roll.

Abstract: An apparatus for testing and calibrating respiratory therapy equipment. A single compact unit is pre-programmed to automatically valve in each selected test, and display pertinent parameters in a digital format. The system includes two flow transducers, one each for high and low flows, a regulated heater to test thermometers, and measurement circuits for checking the electrical insulation integrity of the equipment tested.

Abstract: A device is disclosed for indicating the lubricating quality of a lubricating oil for a machine. The device comprises a frame and a rotatable shaft having a journal for rotation with the shaft. A housing having an internal cavity is mounted to receive the rotatable shaft with the journal disposed within the internal cavity of the housing. A journal-engaging member is mounted in the internal cavity for engaging the journal to establish a normal force between the journal-engaging member and the journal. An oil outlet and an oil inlet communicates with the internal cavity in the housing. The oil inlet and oil outlet are connected to a machine for circulating lubricating oil between the housing and the machine whereby the lubricating oil is directed between the journal and the journal-engaging member. An electric motor drives the rotatable shaft relative to the housing.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of introducing a liquid into a measuring tube and to a device for use in the method. In the specific embodiment the method is used in determining the erythrocyte sedimentation rate of a blood sample. This involves the steps of providing a device comprising a transparent tube and a cap fitted in airtight fashion to a first end portion of the tube and having a skirt which makes airtight sealing engagement with the tube. The cap is slidable along the tube from a first position to a second position closer to the first end of the tube, while still maintaining airtight sealing engagement. A second end portion of the tube is immersed in a blood sample and the cap is slid along the tube towards its said second position to draw a column of blood into the tube. The tube is then removed from the sample and the device is maintained in an upright position for a predetermined length of time.

Abstract: Each of two pairs of electrical-resistance strain gages which are to make up a measurement bridge for a beam-type load cell is fashioned as a composite wherein two spaced-apart grids of foil-type parallel elongated filaments oriented and functioning as strain gages are made of material promoting a strain gage factor effective to compensate for elastic modulus change of the beam material as temperature varies over an expected range.

Abstract: An arrangement for registering loads includes an elongated transversely flexible element having two end portions and an intermediate portion therebetween. The end portions are rigidly fastened so as to preclude all lateral movement of the end portions. A compressive force is directed lengthwise of the element and towards the center thereof so that the intermediate portion suddenly flexes laterally when this force exceeds a predetermined limit. Strain gauges are mounted on the elongated element. The strain gauges become stressed when the intermediate portion flexes. The strain gauges generate a signal in response to stressing due to the flexing of the intermediate portion.

Abstract: A method for testing producing oil and gas wells is disclosed for determining a representation of pressure at different selected levels of an interval having one or more production zones by combining pressure and pressure gradient measurements. Another aspect of the invention enables the determination of production level performance by combining flow measurements and pressure gradient measurements to create pressure versus flow curves for each production level of an interval.

Abstract: In an apparatus for measuring the downhole force applied to a cable suspending a well-logging apparatus in a borehole, an elongated sensitive element has a strain gauge integrally bonded upon it for measuring the downhole force. The apparatus is provided with elements for compensating for pressure and temperature changes in the borehole, wherein an envelope is sealingly disposed about the strain gauge and is formed to allow the sides of the envelope to deflect inwardly and outwardly from the strain gauge in response to changes in pressure and temperature in the borehole. The envelope is filled with oil.

Abstract: Apparatus for analyzing the force acting on the human foot comprises television cameras for photographing the gait of the subject and for photographing the plantar surface of his foot through a transparent platform. The platform comprises a plurality of beams each of which is supported at each end by means for detecting the load imposed on each beam. The video outputs of the two cameras and the load on each beam are displayed on a monitor screen. The apparatus also includes circuitry for determining from the loads on the ends of the beam where the center of pressure is on each beam. These centers of pressure are displayed superimposed on the image of the plantar surface.

Abstract: A tip for use on a volumetric pipettor which tip contains a microporous membrane. The attached tip is attached to bellows and is immersed in a liquid, and the bellows of the pipettor are expanded pulling liquid through the tip to fill that portion of the tip located below the microporous membrane.

Abstract: An improved wheel balancing system employs an information entry system with selectable compensation for input of information so that the balancing procedure can be standardized notwithstanding the fact that different styles of wheels are to be balanced.Means making the selection of compensation includes manually or electrically operated means. In one embodiment the selectively operable compensation means responds to an output from the wheel balancing machine. A zero value is displayed for calculated weights below a predetermined minimum in response to the output from the balancing machine.

Abstract: A vibratory inertial rate of turn sensor employs force feed back for maintaining the free end of a vibrating cantilever in a nulled lineal path when subjected to a turn about the beam axis, the electrical signal required for nulling being a measure of rate of turn of the craft. The output signal demodulation self-tracks the beam resonance frequency and the beam drive and null terms balance one another, tending to maintain the sensor scale factor constant over time and temperature. A unique pick-off and beam primary drive and restoring force drive configuration is provided.

Abstract: An acoustic apparatus and method for microscopic imaging and spectroscopy. The apparatus includes a plurality of devices for exciting an object of interest so that acoustic waves are propagated from the object. These devices include lasers, x-ray sources, microwave generators, ultraviolet sources, and electric current generators. The acoustic waves propagated from the object of interest are detected and the object of interest and the acoustic wave detector are moved with respect to each other in a raster scanning pattern. The magnitude of the detected acoustic waves and the corresponding raster pattern of the object are recorded so that a visual image of the object can be obtained. In addition, the frequency of the exciting electromagnetic radiation that excites the object can be varied so that both the absorption spectra and the Raman frequency mode of the object can be determined.

Abstract: The present invention is a torsional vibration monitoring method and an apparatus for performing the same, in which torsional vibrations produced in a rotating shaft system for use in such as a turbine generator are measured at a small number of certain positions therealong at which the measurements are possible, the torsional vibrations are linearly decomposed and torsional vibrations at arbitrary positions on the rotating shaft system are estimated from the linear decompositions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a torsional vibration monitoring apparatus for a rotating shaft system which is characterized by comprising a detector disposed at a certain position of the rotating shaft system for detecting torsional vibration of the shaft system, a memory device for storing the torsional vibration having a constant time duration which is detected by the detector as a time series data obtained by sampling the torsional vibration with minute unit times, a Fourier transforming device for Fourier-transforming the time series data to obtain a frequency series data, multiplier each for multiplying the frequency series data with a relation which is previously obtained between the vibration of the shaft system at the certain position of the shaft system and that at an arbitrary position thereof at respective frequencies to obtain a frequency series data for the arbitrary position, and reverse Fourier transformer for reverse-Fourier-transforming the frequency series data to obtain a time series dat

Abstract: A gyroscope with a solid rotor synchronous motor having three-phase square wave supply voltage is provided, and control circuitry including logic circuit components for periodically producing an amplitude modulation in the motor excitation voltage of constant frequency that results in a periodic slipping of a few degrees of the solid rotor relative to the electrical field is provided, whereby gyro drift errors varying sinusoidally in sense and magnitude in accordance with the relative rotation between field and rotor, balance out during each complete cycle of relative rotation.

Abstract: A tilting arrangement for a vehicle with the aid of which a body of the vehicle is adjustable in a roll direction relative to an underframe of the vehicle to compensate for centrifugal force exerted in curves on subjects resting on the body is controlled by a control signal which is produced with the aid of a device comprising a speedometer and a gyro arrangement for producing signals which are representative of the travelling velocity and the yaw angular velocity of the vehicle as well as the roll angular velocity and the roll angle of either one of said parts of the vehicle. The signals are combined to produce a control signal the magnitude of which is representative of the expression .vertline.m.V..theta..sub.gir .vertline.-.vertline.k.g..theta..sub.roll .vertline., and has a sign, plus or minus, determined by the sign of the signal representative of .theta..sub.roll, in which expression V is the travelling velocity of the vehicle, .theta..sub.gir is the yaw angular velocity of the vehicle, .theta..sub.

Abstract: A dual suspension gyroscopic device includes a gyro having at least a single degree of freedom and defining an output axis, i.e., the sensitive axis of the gyroscopic device. The gyro is supported by a gimbal which in turn is supported in a case for unlimited angular displacement about the gimbal axis. The arrangement provides low torque suspension about the sensitive axis while permitting normal angular displacement about said axis and maintaining the gyro spin axis in a reference plane. A data transferring slip ring assembly is arranged with the gimbal support and the slip ring assembly and support arrangement is powered to minimize friction about the gimbal axis.

Abstract: A turning device preferably for turbine-machines is disclosed having a turning-gear pinion arranged on a cam so that the axes of rotation of the cam, the turning-gear pinion and the shaft to be turned are aligned in a central line. To turn the shaft, the turning-gear pinion is caused to engage a toothed ring of the shaft by a hydraulic piston acting on the cam. The turning-gear piston is then held in the engaged position by a spring-loaded pressure cylinder which engages a catch of the cam. When a certain speed has been reached, or when the shaft is turning backward, the spring loaded pressure cylinder becomes disengaged from the catch and the turning-gear pinion swings out sideways.

Abstract: A flat pushbutton tuner wherein button slide assemblies provided with pushbuttons are disposed in parallel with a base plate of the tuner and mounted directly on said plate without providing a housing or base for the button slide assemblies. The base plate is provided with horizontally extending seats and vertically extending seats formed integrally with said base plate for mounting components of the tuner thereon.

Abstract: Apparatus for rotating a shaft of a turbine is disclosed. This apparatus includes a ratchet wheel which is connected to the shaft, and a pawl which engages the teeth of the ratchet wheel. The teeth of the ratchet wheel have bearing surfaces with convex curvatures, while the pawl has a contact surface which also has a convex curvature.

Abstract: A gearbox for motor vehicles having an input shaft with an input gear; a countershaft with a drive gear for the countershaft, said driving gear engaging the input gear; a transmission main shaft with a number of gears depending on the number of gear ratios, each of said gears being in driving engagement with an individual gear on the countershaft; a reverse shaft with a driving gear for said reverse shaft and engaging a gear on the countershaft; as well as a reverse gear engaging a gear on the main shaft. The gears on the main shaft and associated gears on the countershaft and reverse shaft can be selectively engaged to establish various driving connections between the input shaft and the transmission main shaft. At least one additional gear, disengagably journalled on the reverse shaft, engages a gear disengagably journalled on the countershaft. One of the other gears on the countershaft engages the main shaft gear which engages the reverse gear and is disengagably journalled on the countershaft.

Abstract: The invention relates to a control mechanism for multi-speed bicycles in which operation of both the front and rear derailleurs is performed by a single lever.

Abstract: A column shift type transmission control device used in a tilt steering system. A tilt joint for coupling the upper control rod and the lower control rod of the transmission control device is provided in cabin side and the lower control rod is supported by the mount bracket so as to make an opening in the mount bracket smaller to contribute for noise separation and for easy assembling.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a bicycle speed change lever comprising a support shaft secured to a mounting member, a lever body pivotally mounted on the support shaft, and a click plate disposed adjacent the lever body so as to be slightly movable in opposite directions about the support shaft for presenting the alternative of two positional phases. A plurality of spaced circular holes are formed in the click plate and aligned in an arc of a circle, a steel ball is retained between a base portion of the lever body and the click plate so as to be disengageable with any one of the plurality of circular holes, and a phase converting mechanism for converting the positional phases of the click plate from one phase to the other and vice versa. The phase converting mechanism including an engaging member formed with the click plate and a switching member secured to the mounting member which cooperate to effect the phase converting only when the lever body is pivotally moved in a reverse direction.

Abstract: A shift control mechanism is provided for a transmission or the like. The control mechanism prevents the transmission from being shifted directly from a forward speed to reverse or vice versa. A shift lever of the transmission engages a slider when shifting between a reverse position and a neutral position or between a forward position and the neutral position. The slider is mounted in a guide on a lockout plate with the slider being limited in movement to prevent the shift lever from moving beyond the next adjacent position of the transmission in any single motion. Thus, the transmission must always be shifted into neutral when shifting between forward and reverse.

Abstract: A single hand-operated actuator for effecting operation of two devices, such as the front and rear caliper brakes of a bicycle or the like. The actuator includes a base adapted to be secured to the handle bars of a bicycle and having two Bowden sliding wire or cable linkages thereon with the linkages being interconnected to a lever operated by one hand for effecting actuation of both the front and rear brakes of the bicycle via the linkages. In another version of the actuator of this invention, a mechanical power assist is provided for aiding operation of the actuator.

Abstract: A safety throttle lever for use on hand-held tools which lever has two operational modes, the first a tool non-operating mode, the second a tool operating mode. Cam-like means are arranged to restrict and guide the lever into the second operational mode when manual effort is applied to the lever. A spring means returns the lever to first operational mode when manual effort is released on the lever.

Abstract: A releasable lock mechanism is provided in combination with a stationary first member and a second member, the latter being adapted to assume various selected positions of rotary adjustment with respect to the first member. The lock mechanism includes a first lock component carried by one of the members and a complemental pivotally adjustable second lock component carried by the other member. The first lock component has a rounded periphery which is provided with a plurality of annularly spaced pockets; each pocket corresponding to a selected position of rotary adjustment of the second member with respect to the first member. The second lock component assumes an interlocking engagement with a peripheral pocket, when the second member is disposed at a selected position of rotary adjustment with respect to the first member, and retains the second member in the selected position.

Abstract: A compact reversible variable speed clutch transmission and differential including a rotable input shaft having a drive gear (76), forward and reverse gears (88,84) engaged with the drive gear on opposite sides thereof, and a pair of selectively operable clutches each having an input (92) connected to an associated one of the forward and reverse gears and an output (94). The clutch outputs are connected to the inputs (110) of a variable speed nutating transmission (120) which includes a pair of independently rotatable outputs (116). The transmission includes a pair of nutating elements (130) each having a surface (132) which is a non-cylindrical surface of revolution. The elements are mounted for rotation by a mounting device (126,128) for rotation and there is included a pair of drive units (134) one for each nutating element, fixedly connecting thereto and to an associated one of the outputs.

Abstract: The main pressure in the gearing which under normal operating conditions is 150% of the amount required to transmit the then-present torque is reduced to 100% when an upshift takes place under load or a downshift takes place under no load. For a downshift under load and an upshift under no load the pressure is reduced to about 30%. The position of the control rod of an injection pump at the beginning of a shift operation is stored until the shift is completed. This allows the present system to cooperate with a system wherein the control of the injection pump is shifted from the gas pedal to a regulator during gear shifts.

Abstract: Apparatus for grinding depth gauges in a saw chain. The chain is composed of plural cutter links, each having a depth gauge and a cutter blade. The apparatus includes a stationary grinding wheel and a platform on which a selected cutter link is mounted, for shifting therewith toward and away from the wheel. A guide member mounted adjacent the wheel is positioned to contact the cutter blade of the selected link, to limit the closest approach between the wheel and the associated depth gauge. The latter is ground thereby to a selected depth relative to the associated cutter blade. Also disclosed is mechanism for positioning each of a succession of such links at a preselected position on the platform.

Abstract: A paper sheeter for cutting two or more webs simultaneously into sheets has a rotary knife to make the cuts in desired register with marks (e.g. watermarks) carried by the web. A sensor is provided for detecting the marks on each web and a further sensor monitors the knife rotation; signals from the several sensors are fed to a control unit in which the signals from each mark sensor are compared with signals from the knife sensor to produce feed control signals for the respective web. These control signals may be applied to brakes associated with the web supply reels to vary the tension in each web; alternatively one web may be controlled by using the control signals to vary the speed ratio between the knife and pull rolls feeding the webs to the knife.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for producing a smooth edge blank from stock material. A blanking die is carried by the movable die shoe and a closely cooperating blanking punch is secured on the fixed die shoe. Spring biassed means is displaceably provided within the blanking die to apply pressure on a sheet of stock located on the punch only over the area to be blanked out from said sheet of stock. A piercing punch may also be provided and extends coaxially through the blanking die and a bore extending through the blanking punch provides a piercing die. The spring biassed means for applying pressure to clamp the stock only over the area to be blanked is a shedder displaceably disposed within the bore of the blanking die. A stripper encircling the blanking punch is provided for removing scrap stock upon completion of the blanking step and a spacer means is disposed to space the blanking die and the stripper apart by a distance exceeding the thickness of the stock.

Abstract: Apparatus for trimming the end portion of a pneumatic tire carcass ply when the ply is mounted on a carcass building drum includes a cutting tool movable radially with respect to the drum and a backing roller that swings in and out of a position behind the end portion of the carcass ply. The backing roller thus provides a firm back-up for the cutting tool while it is cutting the carcass ply, but the roller can be swung to and out-of-the way position while other operations are performed on the carcass.

Abstract: A circular-knife roller having several side-by-side arranged circularly shaped knives provided in a fur-cutting machine. A porcupine is arranged below the circular-knife roller and the axis of rotation thereof is parallel to the axis of the circular-knife roller. The porcupine grips with its needles the fur to be cut and presses same against the knives. A rake with elongated prongs is arranged on the outlet side of the porcupine, the free ends of which prongs extend between the needles. The rake is pivotally supported about an axis which is parallel with respect to the porcupine axis. The rake is driven by a gearing which is arranged between the porcupine axis and the pivot axis for the rake so that the free ends of the prongs perform a substantially radially outwardly and inwardly directed movement relative to the porcupine to effect a release of the fur from the tips of the needles.

Abstract: A power shear has a pair of parallel frame plates spaced apart to either side of a fixed blade and a movable blade. The movable blade can be displaced past the fixed blade to shear a workpiece extending across the plane and resting on the fixed blade A holddown plate is slidably mounted in rails on one of the frame plates and has a pair of edges guided by the rails and overreached by teeth formed on these rails. These edges of the holddown plate are formed with notches that can be aligned with the teeth to allow removal of the holddown plate in a direction perpendicular to its plane. A positioning spindle threaded through a nut fixed on the one frame plate can have an enlarged head engaged in a T-shaped cutout of the holddown plate so that when the holddown plate is lifted perpendicularly off the frame plate it is also disengaged from the positioning spindle.

Abstract: A tool is disclosed for slitting cable to separate individual conductors or groups of conductors from the cable as a whole and as required in order to form a wiring harness. The subject tool is particularly useful for slitting cable of the type known as flat flexible cable in which a plurality of flat conductors are embedded in or laminated between sheets of insulation. The tool includes a cutting head in which one or more cutting elements is inserted. Each cutting element has at least one cutting wheel fixed thereon at a particular location which would lie between conductors of the cable. The tool also includes clamping means so that the cable is securely positioned and will not slip during the cutting operation.

Abstract: A metalworking machine such as a punch or shear has a pair of substantially parallel and spaced-apart frame plates which are mounted fixedly relative to each other and which flank a vertically displaceable work slide formed at its upper edge with a T-shaped notch. A hydraulic ram is fixed to the plates and has a flat T-shaped piston rod receivable in the T-shaped notch of the slide for force transmission between the piston and the slide. The piston and slide can be separated from each other by relative lateral displacement perpendicular to the plane of the slide.

Abstract: A safety lock ring for a circular tool, such as a sawblade, comprising a first collar with a generally cylindrical body portion and a flange engaging one side of the tool, a circular, split tool, such as a sawblade, comprising a plurality of separate segments and having a central opening, when assembled, through which the body portion of the first collar extends, and a second collar disposed around the first collar body portion and having a tool-engaging surface on the opposite side of the tool. A pair of annular grooves on opposite faces of the tool are in interlocking engagement with corresponding annular ribs on the first and second collars, respectively, and the first collar is urged against the tool face so as to clamp the tool between it and the first collar by means of an outer locking collar threadedly secured to the first collar body portion. Dowels, press set in the flange of the first locking collar, extend into openings in the tool segments so as to key the segments to the flange.

Abstract: A self-guiding circular saw, the saw having a series of circumferentially spaced teeth around the periphery thereof. A pair of ribs protrude on opposite sides of the saw blade with each rib being co-extensive with the other and extending from the periphery of the blade linearly toward the central area of the blade. The combined thickness of the ribs and the blade being greater than the thickness of the blade but less than the kerf defined by the teeth of the saw such that the ribs will function to guide the saw in a straight path in the cut.

Abstract: In a digital tone synthesizer of a type using digital data representing the amplitudes of a predetermined fixed number of sample points along one cycle of the audio waveform of a musical tone and an oscillator controlling the sampling frequency as well as the pitch of the tone, a digital filter for transferring the digital data to a digital-to-analog converter at the sampling rate. The digital filter, in response to applied input coefficient values, operates as a low pass or high pass filter in which the cut-off frequency is a predetermined harmonic of the pitch frequency of the tone. By changing the coefficient values, the cut-off harmonic can be changed for a tone independently of the pitch of the tone. Thus any tone of the musical scale may be filtered to modify the harmonic content independently of the pitch of the tone.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument is of a type wherein a key depression brings forth the generation of a key code identifying the depressed key in a digital representation, and the key code designates the tone to be produced. Based on the single key code of the depressed key, there are produced plural key codes indicating plural tones which are in predetermined musical interval relation with the depressed key to constitude a chord. The original key code and the produced key codes are utilized one after another successively to perform an automatic arpeggio.

Abstract: A function generator of time-dependent variable type especially suitable for use as an envelope waveshape generator of an electronic musical instrument is constituted by means for setting multi-bit digitalized information which represents time information in terms of a logarithm, dividing means for dividing the bits of the time information into upper order bits and lower order bits at a bit of a predetermined order, means for converting a portion of the information represented by the lower order bits into linear information, a timing pulse generator which produces a timing pulse having a period corresponding to a value obtained by converting a portion of the information represented by the higher order bits into a natural number, and an accumulator for accumulating the output produced by the information converting means at a period of the timing pulse thereby producing an accumulated value as the time function waveshape which varies with time at a rate corresponding to the time information.

Abstract: A cartridge chamber housing and a breech block for a cartridge with side-mounted primer, in which the chamber housing has a firing pin and a spring-biased slidable firing pin interrupter which is in firing-prevent position and prevents firing pin actuation except when the breech block is closed and locked, and which is moved to firing-enable position by the closure and locking of the breech block, whereby the firing pin may be actuated after such closure and locking of the breech block. The cartridge is fully chambered and extracted by and as a function of closure and opening of the breech block.

Abstract: A high efficiency, low cost fluid pressure engine. This engine converts reciprocating piston motion to rotary output in a novel manner. The engine comprises at least two parallel pistons adapted to reciprocate in cylinders within an engine block closed by upper and lower heads. Each piston is rigidly secured to a piston rod located along the cylinder centerline and extending through substantially fluid tight packing in the lower head. The lower end of each piston rod is flexibly connected to a first connecting means which also includes an opening surrounding a first crank pin. A pair of reciprocating valve means, located within said engine block, are adapted to selectively introduce and exhaust the engine drive fluid into and out of the cylinder above and below the pistons. Valve push rods secured to said valve means are connected to a second connecting means which also has an opening surrounding a second crank pin.

Abstract: A control valve for a servomotor having a disc located in a bore of a hub attached to a movable wall. The movable wall separates a first chamber from a second chamber. A passage in the disc connects a first passageway with a second passageway in the hub to define a flow path to allow free communication of a first fluid between the first and second chambers. A plunger located in the bore has a first end with an axial projection extending therefrom which engages the disc and a second end connected to an input push rod. An input force applied to the push rod moves the plunger which causes the axial projection to deform the disc and interrupt the flow path between the first and second chambers. Thereafter, further movement of the plunger allows a second fluid to be communicated to the second chamber whereby a pressure differential is created across the wall by the first and second fluids. The pressure acting on the wall creates a force which moves the wall and provides an output member with an operational force.

Abstract: A manually operable position lock for a hydraulic actuator (10) adding a cylinder (20) and a piston rod (22) with a stop finger (61) for actuating a push rod (60) to close a valve (32) and prevent fluid egress from the cylinder. The lock includes a pivot bracket (110) carried by a push rod, a control lever (111) pivoted to the pivot bracket, a link (114) pivoted to the control lever and slidably receiving the push rod, and a helical spring (120) carried by the push rod and engaging one end of the link.