Abstract: A piecing process is provided for an open-end friction spinning apparatus of the type including movable friction surface members forming a yarn-forming zone therebetween. A friction surface driving device for moving the friction surface members during operation and for interrupting the movement of the friction surface members is also included in the apparatus. The spinning apparatus further includes a yarn end orientation member for orienting a yarn end during the piecing process. The process includes placing a yarn end into the yarn-forming zone when the rollers are stopped. The friction surface members are started such that the yarn end is prevented from being pulled too deeply into the yarn-forming zone by the yarn end orientation device. An apparatus for carrying out this process is also provided.

Abstract: To improve integration of fibers into a yarn end and thereby improve yarn quality, fibers are directed to a feeding nip defined on an opposite side of a pair of friction rollers forming a spinning nip. The fibers are directed out of the feeding nip, passed between the friction rollers, and forwarded into the spinning nip. One of the friction rollers may constitute a conveying roller which exerts greater force upon the fibers than the other roller to securely convey fibers through a gap between the rollers and into the spinning nip.

Abstract: An improved exhaust gas cleaning system for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine having an exhaust system with exhaust ports opening into a plurality of combustion chambers. A secondary air supplying system is in communication with the exhaust system for supplying secondary air to the exhaust system. A plurality of reed valve devices are interposed in the secondary air supplying system and are operated to open and close in response to pulsations of exhaust gas developed in the exhaust system during engine operation for controlling supply of secondary air to the respective exhaust ports independently of each other.

Abstract: A winch system comprising a cable drum coupled with a reversible hydromotor and a reversible hydropump arranged with the hydromotor in a closed circuit by means of two communication conduits, in which a safety circuit connecting the communication conduits with one another at the occurrence of pressure shocks therein is arranged and provided with one controllable relief pressure valve, whose inlet and outlet are connected with each one of the communication conduits through non-return valves allowing supply to and, respectively, drainage from the relief pressure valve.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling inlet air flow in an internal combustion engine having a turbo-supercharger which includes an air compressor connected to a combustion chamber through two intake passages. An air flow control valve is provided in one of the intake passages and is closed while the engine is running in the accelerating transitional condition and until the pressure of the compressed air pressure reaches a predetermined value. At the same time, the ignition timing is delayed.

Abstract: An ice maker is disclosed for freezing ice pieces and delivering the ice pieces to a receptacle under a chute. The ice machine is made up of an ice mold with an opening in its bottom which receives and ice extractor with an open bottom and upwardly and outwardly extending sides. An evaporator plate is supported below the opening in the ice mold bottom and a water supply is provided to maintain the water in the mold at a predetermined level. A thermo electro unit is disposed below the evaporator. Classical freon refrigeration can also be used. Thus when water is frozen to ice in the extractor, the refrigeration, or thermo-electric means melts the ice loose from the evaporator, in some models, and also from the ice extractor. The ice extractor, which is attached to a motor by means of an arm, swings to an inverted position over an ice chute from which the ice falls, is in some models aided by ambient heat, into a repository. The extractor then swings back into the mold for another cycle.

Abstract: An apparatus for magnetocaloric refrigeration, comprising a ferromagnetic terial arranged in a rotor and alternately entering and exiting from a stationary magnetic field when the rotor rotates, and also comprising a circuit for a working gas coming into successive heat exchange contact with a ferromagnetic material arranged outside the magnetic field and thereby cooled, a refrigeration load, a ferromagnetic material located within the magnetic field and thereby heated as well as an external negative heat source.

Abstract: A rotary magnetic heat pump constructed without flow seals or segmented rotor accomplishes recuperation and regeneration by using split flow paths. Heat exchange fluid pumped through heat exchangers and returned to the heat pump splits into two flow components: one flowing counter to the rotor rotation and one flowing with the rotation.

Abstract: A method for sub-cooling normally gaseous hydrocarbon mixtures produced in a cryogenic process unit wherein the mixture is introduced to a gas/liquid separator, which may be a storage vessel, and vapor containing at least two components of the mixture is recovered as refrigerant, employed in an open cycle refrigeration system to sub-cool the hydrocarbon mixture, and returned to the separator. The system is particularly useful for sub-cooling a hydrocarbon product stream while, at the same time, recovering boil-off vapor from a cryogenic storage vessel.

Abstract: A cryosorption pump for perpetuating a thermal insulating vacuum in the superconducting rotor of an electric machine, in particular, a turbogenerator, is constructed in a co-rotating transfer part of the rotor along the axis of rotation thereof. The rotor comprises a superconducting exciter winding part which is to be cooled by a cryogenic coolant, and to which winding part the coolant is introduced via at least one appropriate coolant supply line. The chambers of the rotor winding part to be evacuated are directly connected to the cryosorption pump in the co-rotating transfer part. Furthermore, the cryosorption pump is thermally connected within the co-rotating transfer part with the at least one coolant supply line.

Abstract: A refrigerant gas injection system for a refrigeration cycle of the type having a screw compressor provided with a slide valve for controlling the compression capacity of the screw compressor, an economizer disposed in a passage for refrigerant liquid and adapted for subcooling the refrigerant liquid by the refrigerant of a reduced pressure, and a refrigerant gas injection line through which the refrigerant gas generated in the economizer is injected into the compression chamber of the screw compressor in its compression phase. The refrigerant gas injection system has a gas injection controller adapted to enable the injection of the refrigerant gas when the screw compressor is operating at full (100%) capacity or load level and to prevent the injection of the refrigerant gas when the screw compressor is operating in unloaded state.

Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a heat accumulating unit for accumulating an exceess heat generated during the operation of a refrigeration cycle main unit and radiating the accumulated heat at a desired time. The accumulating unit includes a heat accumulating container and latent heat accumulating material housed in the container. The material has a predetermined phase transition temperature and a supercooling state release temperature which is lower than the phase transition temperature. The material maintains a supercooling state at a temperature between the phase transition temperature and the supercooling state release temperature. When the material is cooled by a release mechanism to a temperature below the supercooling state release temperature, the supercooling state of the material is released and the material radiates the accumulated heat. The radiated heat is used for heating the refrigerant to be sent a compressor at the start of the heating or defrosting operation of the main unit.

Abstract: An integrated heat pump and hot water system having a refrigerant to water heat exchanger that includes first and second refrigerant circuits in heat transfer relation with a hot water circuit for circulating water from a storage tank through the heat exchanger. One refrigerant circuit is connected between the discharge side of the refrigerant compressor and the heat pump reversing valve. The second circuit is connected between the suction side of the compressor and the indoor coil side of the heat pump expansion device. A pair of control valves are positioned to provide for water heating when the heat pump is in either a heating or cooling mode of operation or, alternatively, when the heat pump is not required to provide air conditioning. In addition, energy in the hot water on the water side of the system is used to evaporate refrigerant in a novel defrost cycle.

Abstract: An air conditioning unit for mounting on the roof of a bus is comprised of a vehicle air conditioning section 12 and a separator condenser section 14 which in their installed relation are fastened together along the line 52, the central part of the unit having a standing space 38 between the operating parts of the air conditioning section and the condenser section to facilitate ready access from that standing space to both of the sections. Additionally, side spaces are provided along both the sides of the unit by means of detachable panels spaced outwardly from the interior parts of the sections so as to provide space for routing of refrigerant and other lines.

Abstract: An ice making compartment in an ice maker comprises a vertical ice making plate where cooling pipes are fixed to the rear surface of the ice making plate, and a plurality of longitudinal and transversal partition plates fixed to the front surface of the ice making plate and defining the cells in cooperation with the ice making plate. Both partition plates comprise plates having different heights from the front surface of the ice making plate so as to separate certainly the adjoining ice cubes during the defrosting cycle. It is desirable that at least one of the transversal partition plates end tip is sharper than the others thereof.

Abstract: Blood gases and the like are monitored by a single probe having multiple dye wells and dyes immobilized in the wells, the dyes being exposed to the blood gases. Optical fibers and waveguides connected to the dye wells permit light to be directed from a light source to the dyes and the light due to absorption or the spontaneous emission of the dye returned to a light detector. The intensity, phase shift or other mechanism of the returned radiation is a measure of the partial pressure of a respective blood gas.

Abstract: In a method of producing composite sheet material by forming longitudinal rows of stitches 7 in a paper sheet material 1, the length of paper sheet material 1 used per stitch 7 is increased so that there is entrapped within each stitch 7 in each longitudinal row of stitches 7 a portion of paper sheet material 1 having a length greater than the length of the completed stitch 7. In consequence there are formed in the composite sheet material a longitudinal series of laterally extending corrugations, ridges or ribs which, in the case of a crepe paper sheet material 22, constitute a gross crimp imposed without distortion of the crimps in the initial crepe paper sheet material 22.

Abstract: This invention relates to a device for detecting the presence of an individual yarn in an advancing lap of parallel yarns, constituted by: detector disposed on one side and in the vicinity of this advancing lap, adapted to detect the presence of a yarn moved away from the lap by a blower means disposed on the other side of said lap; an arrangement, controlled by the detector, for stopping the advancing lap or for triggering off an alarm system, wherein: it is composed, in known manner, of a plurality of parallel comb teeth, between which the advancing yarns pass; and the blower is placed at the base of said teeth and directs the flow of air towards the tip of these teeth. The invention is more particularly applicable to warp knitting machines.

Abstract: The washing machine functions according to a new principle and contains the washable items, particularly washable textiles, in stacked layers in a mesh cage which is fixed in position at a drum rotatably mounted in a casing. Wash water as well as drying air flows through the preferably stationary or slowly rotating drum containing the washable items, is pumped off at an outlet of the casing, and returns again by way of a recirculation pipe to an inlet of the casing. Intermittent rotation of the drum, for example, by 180.degree., is also possible. In this manner, the wash water or drying air passes through the washable items first from one side and then from the opposite side. All switching procedures are electronically controlled according to a preselected program schedule. The washable items no longer can be damaged by catching on the drum, the wash cycle is more effective and thus shorter than before, and electric energy and chemicals are saved.

Abstract: An ultrasonic washing machine as an air bubble supplying device and an ultrasonic generator. The ultrasonic generator works with textile products such as fabrics, yarns, ropes, etc. placed in a tub filled with water. Air bubbles produced by the cavitation effect of the ultrasound cling to the surface of the textile products and help remove stains, alien matter, etc. adhering to them. Part of the air, fed from the outside by an air bubble supplying device, constantly dissolves in the water, whereby the air consumed by the cavitation is supplemented; the rest of the air, not dissolved in the water, diffuses the ultrasound when ascending in the water as bubbles, which serves to greatly improve the washing effect.

Abstract: An electropneumatic door lock control in which a pump activatable to generate a first or second pressure is controlled by a bistable pressure latch and communicated through passenger lock and auxiliary solenoids to pneumatic passenger lock and auxiliary actuators. Initiation means for first and second locking operations of a passenger door lock and a third locking operation of an auxiliary lock are interconnected with the bistable pressure latch, a bistable passenger latch and a bistable auxiliary latch and first and second timers to control the locking operations so that the first and second locking operations generate different pressures but activate the same timer for a duration of activation while the third locking operation generates one of the pressures but activates the other timer for a different duration of activation. With each activation of one of the initiation means the non-chosen latches and timer are deactivated.

Abstract: A lock possesses a lock housing which is connected with a cover plate protruding above the lock housing at all sides. Fastening clips which abut at the corresponding side walls of the lock housing and protrude beyond the rear or rear side thereof are arranged at at least two oppositely positioned sides of the lock housing. The lock is fastened to a flat object by inserting it into an opening through the flat object and bending over the fastening clips on the rear side of this flat object. A substantial simplification of the manufacture of the lock and its fastening in an opening of the flat object is possible due to this form of construction.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for bending a heat exchanger coil, and particularly a fin-on-tube coil, is provided which reduce pressure on the coil at a bending location to prevent damage to the fins and coil by effecting relative movement between a support bed for the coil, defining a coil plane, and a rotating mandrel, in a direction perpendicular to the coil plane during approximately the first 10.degree. of rotation of the mandrel. Such relative movement can be accomplished by either moving the support bed or by moving the rotational axis of the mandrel.

Abstract: A bending template assembly is attached to a main shaft mounted in an elongated bed and is provided with a plurality of bending templates put in layers in the axial direction of the main shaft. A long work is held, at the rear end thereof, in a chuck mounted on a carriage for work slidable in the longitudinal direction of the work. The chuck is movable transversely to the work, i.e., horizontally and vertically and the work can be located against the outer periphery of desired one of the plural bending templates by the horizontal and vertical displacement of the chuck. A fastening apparatus provided with fastening pieces of the number equal to that of the bending templates is disposed on a bending arm mounted on the main shaft at one end thereof. This fastening apparatus is not only rotatable together with the bending arm but also movable horizontally and vertically relative to the bending arm and can be approached or retreated from the bending template assembly.

Abstract: A box to separate rolled stock, having a frame, an inlet guide, a pair of specially shaped rolls, and a device that, with one activation, can adjust both rolls in order to change the distance between the centers of the rolls.

Abstract: This invention relates to the thermal and wear resistant, tough alloy at elevated temperatures. The alloy consists essentially of carbon, chromium, iron, titanium, aluminum, tungsten, molybdenum, silicon, manganese, cobalt and balance nickel, further the alloy includes optionally at least one selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, niobium and tantalum, further the alloy includes optionally at least one selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, niobium and tantalum, further the alloy includes optionally at least one selected from the group consisting of boron and zirconium. The alloy according to this invention are widely utilized to serve as the alloy for build-up weld and for guide shoe used in the hot rolling apparatus for fabricating seamless steel pipe.

Abstract: A rolling mill has upper and lower rolls with axes which cross each other. These two rolls are pivoted at ends diametrically opposite to each other. Only rolls chocks mounted at the non-pivoted ends of the rolls are allowed to be hydraulically moved the same distance in the same direction, i.e., the rolling direction or the reverse direction, in a symmetrical relation with respect to the center line of the rolling mill.

Abstract: Crimping apparatus for butt splicing two optical fibers in a connector requiring application of both radial and axial force comprises a frame, a workstation for holding the connector, a pair of radial die sets, and a pair of axial die sets. A disk journaled to the frame beneath the workstation has an integral ring-like member connected to respective die sets by four toggle links at ninety degree intervals. Rotating the disk causes the die sets to converge on a connector at the workstation.

Abstract: A sliding table, used for the exchange of tool or die sets of a press is moved into and out of the press on rails. The driving motion is caused by an adjusting mechanism in the sliding table. An underfloor power containing channel extends parallel to the moving direction of the sliding table and is used for containing at least one power supply line taken along by the sliding table. The underfloor power containing channel is closed in an upward direction by a covering, consisting of individual cover members, flexibly connected with one another and with its own drive which causes pre-stressing of the cover members prior to movement of the sliding table.

Abstract: A tool for removing dents from tubing, particularly dents from curved brass tubing used in musical instruments such as trombones, trumpets and french horns. The tool is designed not only to drive a barrel-shaped dent ball past the dent to raise it, but also to reverse the procedure to remove the tool from the horn in working with tubing that is not open ended. The tool has a series of barrel-shaped force transmitting beads which are pivotally connected to each other and to a tubular handle at one end. At the other end a length of cable extends through a fixed metal driver ball to a metal retainer bead at the end of the cable. A barrel-shaped dent ball is strung on the cable for movement between the driver ball and retainer bead for impacting motion by reciprocation of the handle when the dent ball has been lodged underneath the dent to be removed.

Abstract: A large size barrel-shaped dent ball for removing dents in curved and tapered tubing having a diameter between 21/2 and 41/2 inches such as a tuba. The ball is constructed with a hardwood core and a steel band about the center portion of its length. An axial steel tube is also inserted in the hardwood core to facilitate use and removal of the ball from the tube. This composite structure reduces the overall weight so that the ball can be manipulated during use. A cable tool on which the dent ball can be strung between two metal impact balls is also presented. Reciprocation of the cable provides repeated impact of a metal impact ball against the barrel-shaped dent ball to drive the dent ball under and past the dent in a dent removal and tool retrieval direction.

Abstract: A method of measuring the quantity of an ingredient gas in the exhaust gas from a motor vehicle during each of a sequence of driving modes by measuring and storing in real time flow rate data Q.sub.E (t) representative of the flow rate of the exhaust gas at a succession of times during a driving mode, measuring and storing concentration data representative of the concentration of the ingredient gas in the exhaust gas during a time period delayed with respect to the time period of the driving mode in order to compensate for a time delay in correspondence between changes in flow rate and performing an interpolation method and either a data-compression or data-expansion method on the concentration data in order to obtain corrected concentration values C.sub.E (t) on a one-to-one basis in phase and magnitude to the flow rate data, and determining the quantity M(t) of the ingredient gas in the exhaust gas for each of the measurements of flow rate based on the operational equation M(t)=.rho..times.C.sub.E (t).

Abstract: A process and an installation for protecting a solid metal against oxidation during a rolling operation. This installation comprises inert atmosphere enclosures supplied with an inert gas and enclosing the waiting table, in the case where the rolling is carried out by means of a strip train, or located on each side of pressure rolls around blanks to be rolled, when the rolling is carried out by means of a planetary rolling mill.

Abstract: A leak detecting method and apparatus for a gas pipe line in which the inflow rate Qin or the outflow rate Qout is measured from instant to instant at each of all the inlet and outlet ports of the gas pipe line and the presence or absence of a gas leak is determined in accordance with the measured values. The measured inflow rates Qin and outflow rates Qout are respectively integrated over a given period of time and the occurrence of a gas leak is determined when the sum .SIGMA..intg.Qdt of the integrated values deviates from a predetermined value. On that occasion, in accordance with the data obtained by these calculations the relation between the integration time and the standard deviation of .intg.Qindt-.intg.Qoutdt/.intg.

Abstract: A method of testing pipe sections at an oil rig floor by means of an internal pipe testing tool and a pressurized gas containing helium in a ratio of helium to a carrier gas of at least about 1:2856 by volume. The gas is pressurized in a hydraulic accumulator remote from the rig floor. The pressurized gas actuates the test tool at substantially the same pressure as is used for testing the pipe section. A flexible enclosure confines the test gas which leaks from the pipe section. The enclosure defines a substantially annular chamber around the area to be tested to confine leakage test gas to prevent its dissipation into the atmosphere. An aperture is provided in the enclosure to permit a sensing probe to be inserted into the annular chamber between the enclosure and the pipe section to sense the presence of test gas.

Abstract: A steam leakage measuring device particularly for use in a steam trap having a detector member which includes a vibration sensor and a temperature sensor which are connected separately to a signal processing or arithmetic unit receiving and processing the temperature and vibration signals from the detector member. The temperature sensed by the temperature sensor is converted into a saturated pressure measurement and a true steam leakage measurement is developed in the signal processing unit based upon a predetermined relationship between the sensed vibration level and a leakage measurement for a particular developed pressure level.

Abstract: A crossflow vorticity sensor is provided for the detection of crossflow vorticity characteristics. The crossflow vorticity sensor is comprised of crossflow sensors (10) which are non-invasively adhered to swept wing laminar surface (12) either singularly, in multi-element strips (11), in polar patterns (40), or orthogonal patterns (41). These crossflow sensors (10) are comprised of hot-film sensor elements (18) which operate as a constant temperature anemometer circuit to detect heat transfer rate changes. Accordingly, crossflow vorticity characteristics are determined via cross-correlation. In addition, the crossflow sensors (10) have a thickness which does not exceed a maximum value h in order to avoid contamination of downstream crossflow sensors (10).

Abstract: A circuit (62, 64) for receiving a periodic input signal at frequency f, and for producing a pseudosinusoidal staircase output signal at a fundamental frequency f from which predetermined harmonics of the fundamental frequency are absent. Also provided are an oscillator in which such a circuit forms the drive circuit for a piezoelectric crystal, and an accelerometer in which such an oscillator is used as the force sensing means. In the accelerometer, the reaction force of a proof mass (40) is sensed by a resonator that comprises a drive circuit (44) for producing a drive signal and a piezoelectric crystal (42) connected between the proof mass and support (46). In response to the drive signal, the crystal undergoes mechanical vibration at a frequency f that varies with the force applied to the crystal. A resonator signal corresponding to the mechanical vibration is produced and input to drive circuit.

Abstract: An arrangement for monitoring pressure pulses in gas/particulate material media flowing through pipelines and/or containers includes an annular metallic housing which surrounds a flow passage and has in its interior an annular chamber which extends around the flow passage and is separated therefrom by a barrier layer of a wear resistant and porous material. Connecting ports for connecting the annular chamber respectively to a pulse conduit leading to a pressure measuring device and to a source of a rinsing gas open into the annular chamber.

Abstract: A probe for an electromagnetic flowmeter in miniaturized format, particularly for blood flow measurements, has two magnetic coils which are oppositely wound on a toroidal core of permanent magnetic material. Two electrodes respectively connected to the coils are disposed inside the core. The core has a layer structure of extremely thin wafers of material having high magnetic resonance and thin insulating layers in alternation. For re-magnetization of the core, the coils are charged with extremely brief and high current pulses. The measured signal is taken when the pulsed current for magnetization of the coils has decayed.

Abstract: An electromagnetic flowmeter in which the fluid being metered is conducted through a flow tube having a pair of electrodes, the fluid intersecting a magnetic field whereby the resultant voltage induced in the fluid is transferred to the electrodes to provide a signal indicative to flow rate. The magnetic field is created by a pair of pole pieces formed of "hard" magnetic material. The pieces are placed at diametrically-opposed positions and are magnetically interconnected to define a magnetic circuit. Excitation pulses which alternate in polarity are periodically applied by respective magnet drivers to coils wound about the pole pieces to alternately magnetize the pieces in one direction and remagnetize the pieces in the reverse direction, thereby establishing the desired field. The duty cycle of the pulses is such as to reduce the average power requirements to a very low level.

Abstract: A vortex shedding flowmeter comprising vortex generator of an elongated cylindrical shape having a cross section of a blunt geometry disposed across a first cross section of a flow passage and a vortex sensor including a wing disposed across a second cross section of the flow passage in a parallel relationship with respect to the vortex generator, wherein the wing vortex sensor is secured to the wall of the flow passage at one extremity, while the other extremity is connected to one extremity of a lever that transmits the flexing movement of the wing vortex sensor to a transducer disposed at the other extremity of the lever. The vortex shedding frequency detected by the combination of the wing vortex sensor-lever amplifier-transducer provides the information on the fluid velocity through the flow passage as the vortex shedding frequency is proportional to the fluid velocity.

Abstract: A torque sensor has a magnetic foil which is wound and attached to a rotating shaft in strip form at an angle to the shaft axis of rotation, the magnetic strip being mechanically stressed dependent upon the torque acting on the shaft, and generating voltages in two secondary windings surrounding the magnetic strips. The voltages will be different due to different forces acting on the two strips, this being a measure of the torque acting on the shaft. The strips are formed from stamped segments cut obliquely from an amorphous tape which is cast with a profiled cross-machine cross section having regions of varying thickness. Such a tape can be manufactured using a nozzle having a correspondingly shaped orifice opening through which molten amorphous alloy is discharged onto a moving cooling surface.

Abstract: A flow-through sampling device is provided for obtaining clear filtrate samples from a pipeline containing a slurry of phosphoric acid and calcium sulphate. The sampling device comprises a sample chamber having inlet and outlet pipes connected to the high pressure and low pressure sides of the pipeline, respectively, the sample chamber having a filter attached to its side portion for removing solids from the slurry prior to obtaining a fluid sample. The sampling device can be equipped with an automatic analyzer for continuously monitoring the composition of the flow stream.

Abstract: A front and rear transmission casing are joined to form a single casing. Upper and lower input shafts are received and supported by the front casing. The lower input shaft drives a change speed gearing with a speed change shaft and a pinion shaft. The pinion shaft has a pinion gear located on a further end of the shaft and engages a ring gear of a differential. The upper input shaft drives a clutch driven shaft through a PTO clutch unit. A rear PTO shaft is driven by the clutch driven shaft and extends out of the rear casing. A mid PTO shaft is also driven by the clutch driven shaft and extends out of the front casing.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a connection between the equalizer beam and the walking beam in a walking beam type oil well pumping unit, the walking beam having a tail shaft rotatably mounted generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the beam. The connection comprises an equalizer beam and two support members spaced from one another lengthwise of the equalizer beam and rigidly secured to the beam, each support member having an arm extending outwardly toward the other support member, and each arm having a curved downwardly-facing bearing surfaces adapted to be engaged by a respective end of the tail shaft. A retainer associated with each support member holds its respective end of the tail shaft in engagement with the downwardly-facing bearing surface when forces tending to separate the shaft from the bearing surface are applied to the shaft.

Abstract: A wobble plate engine mechanism includes a stabilizer mechanism operating between a wobble plate and a mounting on the engine cylinder block or associated engine case. The stabilizer mechanism has first and second mutually inclined, elongate link means, the first link means having one end connected to the wobble plate by a first pivotal coupling and the second link means having one end connected to the mounting by a second pivotal coupling, spaced axially with respect to the mainshaft from the first coupling, with the link means being connected together at their other ends by a third pivotal coupling. The third coupling is centered on a bisecting plane for the wobble plate, the plane bisecting the angle between the wobble plate and a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the mainshaft.

Abstract: This improved driving force support is used in a linear actuator in which rotary motion of a rotating screw shaft is converted to linear motion of a travelling nut. The driving force support comprises a pair of springs surrounding the rotating shaft and held in compression between a pair of shaft bearing receivers. The receivers and bearings held thereby move axially with the rotating shaft as axial forces are applied to the shaft by the travelling nut. The bearing receivers slide axially in a hollow housing. The springs are arranged in series between seats which normally abut the respective bearing receivers and also normally abut stop surfaces in the housing. One spring has a high degree of stiffness, and the other has a comparatively low degree of stiffness.

Abstract: A mechanism for transforming a reciprocating rectilinear motion into an intermittent rotary motion comprises a first element having a longitudinal axis and being reciprocable in a direction parallel to said axis, and a second element coaxially surrounding the first element and being rotatable about the axis. The first element carries a set of two cams circumferentially and axially spaced from each other, each cam having, in plan view, the shape of a rectangular part having two opposite sides extending parallel to the axis and a triangular part having a base adjoining the rectangular part, the triangular part projecting from the rectangular part in the direction of the axis, and the triangular parts of the cams pointing in opposite directions.

Abstract: A multiple speed transmission, specifically for motor vehicles, comprises a main shaft 24 and two auxiliary shaft 24.sub.1 and 24.sub.2. Arranged on these shafts are several gear wheel groups of which three gear wheels each are constantly in mesh. Arranged on the main shaft 24, for shifting the gears, are sliding sleeves 24.sub.3, 24.sub.4, 24.sub.5, 24.sub.6 of which one each can be coupled to one of the gear wheels (by use of an operating cylinder) in interlocking fashion. To create synchronism on the sliding sleeve to be engaged, either an accelerating device 33 or a retarding device 36 acts on one of the auxiliary shafts, depending on shifting direction. Contingent upon reaching synchronism on the respective sliding sleeve, a mircoprocessor controls the servoagent supply to the respective operating cylinder.