Abstract: Hydraulic systems and associated methods configured to reduce leakage past a spool valve when the system is in a neutral state. Leakage reduction is achieved by shifting the spool valve within the spool bore. The amount of shifting can be controlled by a pressure controller that sets one or pressures in the system and actively/dynamically adjusts the system to achieve a desired pressure or set of pressures by shifting the spool valve.

Abstract: A system for recovering energy from a hydraulic actuator and to a method of operating the system are described. The system may have a hydraulic actuator and a source of hydraulic pressure, comprising a hydraulic pump, in fluid communication with the hydraulic actuator for pressurizing the hydraulic actuator. The system may also have a hydraulic accumulator assembly for selectively absorbing energy from the hydraulic actuator or via the hydraulic actuator. The system may also have a first one-way valve configured to provide fluid communication between the hydraulic actuator and the hydraulic accumulator assembly. The first one-way valve may be configured to permit a flow of fluid through the first one-way valve from the hydraulic actuator to the hydraulic accumulator assembly. The first one-way valve may also be configured to block a flow of fluid through the first one-way valve from the hydraulic accumulator assembly to the hydraulic actuator.

Abstract: A hydraulic system includes: a control valve connected to a pump and a tank; a cylinder connected to the control valve by a rod-side and a head-side supply lines; a recycle line connects the rod-side to the head-side supply lines; a recycle valve on the recycle line being opened at a time of extending the cylinder and closed at a time of retracting the cylinder; a switching valve on the recycle line between the recycle valve and the head-side supply line being switched to a first state at the time of extending the cylinder and switched to a second state at the time of retracting the cylinder; a release line branches off from the recycle line at a position between the recycle and switching valves, and connects to the tank; and a release valve closed at the time of extending the cylinder and opened when retracting the cylinder.

Abstract: Fluid flow enhancing devices disclosed herein are adapted to enhance flow of fluid through subsurface watershed conduits, for example, culverts, drainpipe and the like. Such fluid flow enhancing devices advantageously enhance watershed runoff functionality in subsurface watershed conduits by altering watershed flow from a parabolic flow pattern to a rotational flow pattern while still accommodating fish passage requirements. This change in flow pattern beneficially provides turbulence that disrupts and flushes debris out of the subsurface watershed conduits. This disruption and flushing establishes a passive cleaning functionality within the subsurface watershed conduits that serves to clean the subsurface watershed conduits after suitable upstream water delivery event (e.g., heavy rain, controlled water release, etc.).

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a clamp for connecting a ledger to a shoring post. The clamp includes a base member, a ledger-connecting member, and a first jaw, which are fixed connected to each other. The clamp includes a rotatable member inserted into the base member, which is rotatable and slidable in the base member along a longitudinal axis. A portion of the rotatable member is accessible via the slot of the base member. The clamp includes a second jaw fixedly connected to the rotatable member. The clamp further includes a wedge, and when the wedge is inserted into the slot of the base member to engage the rotatable member in a lock position, the first and second jaws are locked to capture two sides of a shoring post.

Abstract: The present disclosure reduces the manufacturing costs of a support member with a portion made from resin that supports a conductive member. The support member is equipped with: a resin main body portion that has a support surface for supporting a conductive member such as an electric wire; and a metal plate that has a through-hole for a bolt and is for attachment to a device. The main body portion has a receptacle portion into which the plate is press-fitted and fixed.

Abstract: A compression lock assembly for an adjustable length rod assembly with inner and outer tubes is provided. The compression lock assembly has an adapter adapted to be connected to rotate with the inner tube. An elastomeric ring with an inner opening and outer diameter is concentric and disposed coaxially with the adapter. A threaded fastener extends through the elastomeric ring and is fixed to the adapter. A lock nut is disposed about the threaded fastener and fixed to rotate with the elastomeric ring. The locking nut moves along the threaded fastener to compress the elastomeric ring and expand the outer diameter from a first diameter to a second diameter greater than the first diameter as the elastomeric ring is rotated relative to the adapter.

Abstract: A piece of furniture, comprising a first and a second furniture part, which are coupled to each other at an angle by means of mechanical coupling means. A female part is made as an oblong slot in the second furniture part with an insertion opening for introducing a male part. When coupling the first furniture part and the second furniture part to each other, the male part is brought from an insertion position in the insertion opening to an end position in the female part by moving the male part and the female part along each other. The male part is situated on a narrow end of the first furniture part and is positioned with its center line between the central plane of the first furniture part and the inner side of the first furniture part. The slot is realized in the inwardly directed flat side of the second furniture part.

Abstract: A fastening device comprises a dowel and a connecting element. The dowel has a sleeve-like or pot-like shape that is mountable in a blind hole or in a passage opening of a first furniture part. The dowel includes a receiving space defined by a wall comprising at least two walls sections. The connecting element is fixed on the dowel to fasten the first furniture part to a second furniture part, wherein the dowel is fixable in the blind hole or passage opening via the connecting element spreading apart the at least two wall sections radially outwards against an inner surface of the blind hole or passage opening.

Abstract: A blind fastener has a sleeve and a pin. The sleeve has a shank with a shank bore and a head with a head bore smaller than the shank bore. The pin has a pin installation portion with a proximal end portion and a distal end portion. The pin also has a breakaway portion with a pin grip, and a pin break groove between the installation portion and the breakaway portion. The pin further has a grip portion at the proximal end portion of the pin installation portion and directly adjacent to the pin break groove. In a pre-installation configuration, the grip portion is in the sleeve bore. In an installation configuration, the grip portion is in the head bore and forms a friction fit with the head bore to prevent the installed sleeve from inadvertently coming free of the installed pin.

Abstract: A female latch member comprising a main body having an aperture with a central axis and an inside surface. The female latch member further includes a first upper portion and second, third and fourth lower portions extending radially from said inside surface that cooperate to form first, second and third channels, each of said first, second and third channels having in order a first vertical upper limit, a second vertical lower limit, and a third vertical upper limit, said first, second and third channels configured to receive three related pins of a male hook member and cause said female latch member to rotate relative to said male hook member. The female latch member further includes a floating bearing assembly attached to the main body, the floating bearing configured to allow for rotation and at least one of parallel, angular or axial movement of the main body.

Abstract: A clamping sleeve and a method for making the same, in which the clamping sleeve is insertable into a bore and which is suitable for receiving and for displaceably mounting a sensor in the bore, the bore defining a radial direction and an axial direction, including: a sleeve body to receive the sensor; and at least one spring tongue with a free end and a fastening end, wherein the fastening end is fastened to the sleeve body and the free end is swingable against a spring force such that the spring tongue supports and displaceably mounts the sensor against the bore while exerting the spring force if the clamping sleeve is situated, together with the sensor, at least partially in the bore; wherein the clamping sleeve is formed from rolled steel so that a rolling direction of the rolled steel extends between the fastening end and the free end.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises a metal washer having an outer circumference, a plurality of cavities formed within the washer, wherein each cavity has an opening that is flush with the outer circumference, an indicator material comprising an inspection lacquer within at least one of the cavities, and a membrane along the outer circumference sealing the inspection lacquer within the cavity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a flexible shaft (1) with a spiral coil (3) arranged on a core (2) of the cable (1) and with a catch (4) arranged at one of the cable ends for transmitting a force, for example to sliding roofs or cargo hold covers of motor vehicles. In order to further simplify the production of the flexible shaft (1), the invention proposes providing a bore (5) in the catch (4), with an inner section (7), in particular an internal screw thread, corresponding to the spiral coil (3).

Abstract: A bracket assembly is described. A center bracket may have two protrusions on a first leg portion and two protrusions on a second leg portion. The protrusions of the center bracket may be positioned and shaped to interface with arcuate guide slots on leg portions of a first bracket and a second bracket. Curvatures of the arcuate guide slots may be positioned and shaped to maintain the center bracket longitudinal axis at substantially the same angle with respect to the first bracket longitudinal axis as the center bracket longitudinal axis is with respect to the second bracket longitudinal axis as the first bracket and second bracket pivot over a range of angles about a point of rotation in an assembled configuration.

Abstract: In a ball joint with a housing, a ball stud which includes a ball head mounted in the housing, and with a sealing bellows which includes a ring-shaped housing-side connecting region, it is provided that at the housing a ring-shaped channel is provided, in which the housing-side connecting region is accommodated, wherein the outer radius of the channel at the channel bottom is greater than the outer radius at the free edge of the channel, and on the housing-side connecting region of the sealing bellows at least one holding element made of a rigid material is provided, which in particular in a top view in longitudinal direction of the ball stud is at least partly covered by the free edge of the channel.

Abstract: A radial ball joint (1, 50, 70) for a vehicle having a housing (2, 51) for holding a joint ball (11) of a ball stud (6) so that the ball stud can rotate and pivot. An upper bearing shell (7), made from a steel sheet, is arranged between an inside wall (10) of the housing (2, 51) and the joint ball (11). The upper bearing shell (7) is in contact with the joint ball (11) over a contact zone (21) to provide the joint ball (11) with a circumferential slide bearing between its equator (12) and its upper pole (13). The upper bearing shell (7) is in the form of an annular, circumferentially closed drawn component and has in the contact zone (21) with the joint ball (11). A number of lubrication grooves (14), pass through a wall (20) of the upper bearing shell (7), in an embossment manner.

Abstract: An airfoil journal bearing includes a bearing housing having a hollow portion in which a rotor is disposed, and formed such that width-wise both sides are opened; a bump foil provided at an inner side of the bearing housing and formed in the circumferential direction thereof, and coupled and fixed to the bearing housing; and a top foil provided at an inner side of the bump foil and formed along the circumferential direction thereof, and of which one side is coupled and fixed to the bearing housing. The top foil comprises: an outer top foil, an inner top foil and an intermediate top foil interposed between the outer top foil and the inner top foil.

Abstract: A turbocharger according to one embodiment of this invention includes: a rotation shaft; a compressor impeller; a compressor housing; a bearing housing connected to the compressor housing and configured to define a diffuser flow path between the bearing housing and the compressor housing; a thrust plate configured to support the rotation shaft in an axial direction; an insert component configured to retain the thrust plate between the insert component and a protruding wall portion in the bearing housing; a snap ring configured to be inserted in a first circumferential groove formed in an inner peripheral wall surface of the bearing housing, to thereby fix the insert component in a state in which the insert component is pressed against the thrust plate; and a diffuser component having a diffuser surface extending along a direction orthogonal to an axis of the rotation shaft between the inner peripheral wall surface of an end portion of the bearing housing on one side thereof and an outer peripheral edge of the

Abstract: A spherical roller bearing includes at least one outer ring and one inner ring and at least one rolling element disposed between the at least one outer ring and the one inner ring. The outer ring is axially enlarged with respect to the inner ring in a one-sided manner on a load-zone side of the spherical roller bearing.

Abstract: To suitably set a control gain in feedback control while suppressing an increase in apparatus size. A workpiece transport control system includes: one or a plurality of motion guidance devices; a table on which a workpiece is to be placed; an actuator which imparts a driving force to the table; a control unit which performs transport control by feedback control; and a calculation unit which calculates a transport load applied from the workpiece to a moving member of each of the one or a plurality of motion guidance devices, wherein a control gain related to the feedback control in the transport control is adjusted on the basis of the transport load in each of the one or a plurality of motion guidance devices.

Abstract: A planetary transmission for a wind turbine includes a transmission housing, a central sun gear which has an outer toothing, a ring gear which has an inner toothing, a one-sided planetary carrier, and multiple planetary gears mounted on the planet carrier via a planetary gear bearing configured as a sliding bearing such that they can rotate about planetary gear rotational axes and that have outer toothings that engage with the inner toothing of the ring gear and the outer toothing of the sun gear, where every planetary gear bearing has two annular bearing bodies penetrated by a planetary gear shaft and rotationally fixed thereon and have conical sliding surfaces on the outer circumferential surfaces thereof such that tapered ends of the bearing bodies point towards one another, and where surfaces corresponding to the sliding surfaces of the planetary gear bearing are formed on inner circumferential surfaces of the planetary gear.

Abstract: A sofa bed sliding system for a sofa bed is provided. The sliding system is forming a connection between a moveable sofa bed part and an associated frame structure, wherein said sliding system includes at least one sliding surface being coated with a lacquer including a resin, wherein said lacquer in turn is at least partly coated with a lipophilic composition coating to provide a slide layer with a lowered friction.

Abstract: A cage for a thrust roller bearing is provided. The cage has first and second cage members each having an outer ring portion formed radially outside of a roller retention hole. The outer ring portion has a flange portion that extends, from a radially outer end of the outer ring portion, in an axial direction and is divided along the circumferential direction. The flange portion has a large diameter portion and a small diameter portion. The first cage member and the second cage member are fastened to each other while the large diameter portion and small diameter portion of the first cage member overlap the small diameter portion and large diameter portion of the second cage member, respectively.

Abstract: A concentrated high-speed rigid hub allows for heavier planters, high-speed planting and seeding devices in multiple and multiple challenging applications such as no-till, high cation exchange capacity (CEC) soils, compact soils, moist soils, high concentrations of stubble and or Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) crops, and cover or green crops with massive structured root systems. The hub is made of one of high strength forging steel and medium carbon cast steel, whereby the hub lessons hub flexing, hub bending, cracking and premature failure. The hub comprises rigid, heavy duty deep bosses or gussets which increase structural strength and maximize the strength of attachment points adapted for either bolts or rivets attachment to a blade or object.

Abstract: A method of assembling an electric power steering assembly includes providing a shaft that extends along a longitudinal axis between a first shaft end and a second shaft end. The method further includes extruding or drawing the shaft through a die to define a spline that extends between the first shaft end and the second shaft end. The spline includes a first tooth having a first tip. The method still further includes applying a sleeve over a portion of the spline, such that the sleeve extends from the second shaft end towards the first shaft end.

Abstract: A clutch driving device includes: a spring that is deformable in a circumferential direction when seen in an axial direction to thereby generate a force in the circumferential direction; a first projection disposed at one end of the spring; an output gear that rotates in an disengaging direction or an engaging direction of the clutch; and a pin that is provided to the output gear to be rotatable together with the output gear and contacts the first projection to thereby transfer the elastic restoring force to the output gear. A contact point between the first projection and the pin moves toward an axis of the spring at least once when seen in the axial direction of the spring in a case where the output gear rotates in a direction in which the elastic restoring force of the spring decreases.

Abstract: A rotor carrier for a hybrid module includes an annular ring, a first tubular segment, a second tubular segment, and a first radially extending orifice. The annular ring is arranged for fixing to a torque converter cover. The annular ring includes radially inner portion. The first tubular segment extends from the radially inner portion in a first axial direction. The second tubular segment extends from the first tubular segment in the first axial direction. The first radially extending orifice is disposed in the second tubular segment. The annular ring, the first tubular segment, and the second tubular segment are integrally formed from a same piece of material. The first tubular segment has a first outer diameter, and the second tubular segment has an outer surface with a second outer diameter, less than the first outer diameter.

Abstract: A clutch actuator (1) has a preload plunger able to move a clutch actuating pushrod (49) wherein the preload plunger (19) is able to be preloaded by a preload spring (21) arranged between the preload plunger and a movable body (17). The clutch actuator is adapted to be operated such that during use when the clutch is engaged there is a force-reducing gap (61) of width (x5) between the movable body and the preload plunger. Control means for controlling such a clutch actuator are also disclosed.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an automatic, electric hub lock with a manual override capability. In one example, the electric hub lock may be actuated responsive to one or more of a manipulation of a manual dial proximate a vehicle wheel and an electronic control inside a passenger compartment. In another example, a method includes overriding the automatic control of the hub lock responsive to manual request for operating the vehicle in four-wheel drive mode.

Abstract: A torque limiting coupling is arranged rotatably around a longitudinal axis. The torque coupling comprises at least one locking element that is displaceable between a locking position and an unlocking position and that is biased towards the locking position. The locking element is transferable into the locking position in the decoupling position of a switching disc, in which locking position the locking element is supported in a circumferential direction on a coupling hub and on the switching disc, and in which the switching disc is locked against rotation relative to the coupling hub. The at least one locking element is further transferable into the locking position when the switching disc is in its coupling position wherein, in the locking position, the locking element is supported in a circumferential direction on the coupling hub and the switching disc, and the switching disc is locked against rotation relative to the coupling hub.

Abstract: A method for controlling a drivetrain of a vehicle during a shift process is described. The drivetrain includes a drive engine which is connected via a bow spring dual-mass flywheel to a transmission which can be uncoupled by way of a clutch. The bow spring dual-mass flywheel includes a bow spring which is arranged in a bow spring channel. The method includes detecting that the clutch is closed within the scope of a shift process. Furthermore, the method includes generating a torque intervention at the bow spring dual-mass flywheel independently of a torque request by a driver of the vehicle, in such a way that the bow spring is arranged on the same side of the bow spring dual-mass flywheel after the closing of the clutch as before the opening of the clutch.

Abstract: A brake device includes a rotating member; a fixed member; a pressing member configured to generate an engaging force between the rotating member and the fixed member; an elastic member configured to apply an elastic force to the pressing member; an engaging force application mechanism configured to apply the engaging force to the pressing member; a torque transmission member configured to transmit torque transmitted from the rotating member to the fixed member; a torque receiving member configured to receive the torque; a conversion mechanism configured to convert the torque into thrust in the axial direction and apply the thrust to the engaging force; and an actuator configured to move the torque receiving member in the axial direction by generating thrust in the torque receiving member and adjust a position of the torque receiving member along the axial direction based on a reaction force against the engaging force.

Abstract: A brake caliper according to this disclosure is, for example, equipped with: a body having a pair of side walls arranged with a gap therebetween, a peripheral wall running between the pair of side walls, wherein the pair of side walls and the peripheral wall enclose the peripheral edge portion of a disk rotor from the outside of the disk rotor in the radial direction; brake pads positioned between the side walls and the disk rotor; pistons that are supported by the side walls and that press the brake pads toward the side surfaces of the disk rotor by means of applied hydraulic pressure; and a shaft that supports the brake pads and passes through an opening provided in the side walls. The opening includes a retaining part that retains the shaft in the circumferential direction at two contact points separated from each other along the edge of the opening.

Abstract: There is provided a configuration that can precisely detect abrasion of brake shoes of a railway vehicle. A brake shoe abrasion detection unit includes: at least one abrasion detection RF tag that is attached at a position of an abrasion limit of a brake shoe of a railway vehicle tread brake or a position closer to a braking surface than the abrasion limit; and a reference RF tag that is attached at a position beyond the abrasion limit of the brake shoe.

Abstract: A method of producing a friction material. The method includes mixing silica containing filler particles and a liquid binder to form a binder-filler liquid mixture. The method also includes saturating a fibrous base material with the binder-filler liquid mixture to form a saturated fibrous base material. The method further includes curing the saturated fibrous base material at a predetermined temperature for a predetermined time to cure the saturated fibrous base material to form the friction material.

Abstract: A spring steel wire includes, by mass %, C: 0.40% to 0.75%, Si: 1.00% to 5.00%, Mn: 0.20% to 2.00%, P: 0.0001% to 0.0500%, S: 0.0001% to 0.0500%, Cr: 0.50% to 3.50%, Al: 0.0005% to 0.0500%, N: 0.0020% to 0.0100%, Mo: 0% to 2.00%, V: 0% to 0.50%, W: 0% to 0.50%, Nb: 0% to 0.100%, Ti: 0% to 0.100%, Ca: 0% to 0.0100%, Mg: 0% to 0.0100%, Zr: 0% to 0.1000%, B: 0% to 0.0100%, Cu: 0% to 1.00%, Ni: 0% to 3.00%, and a remainder consisting of Fe and impurities. A structure includes, by area radio, tempered martensite of 90% or more. The prior austenite grain size number is No. 12.5 or higher. The presence density of iron-based carbide having an equivalent circle diameter ranging from 0.15 ?m to 0.50 ?m ranges from 0.40 pieces/?m2 to 2.00 pieces/?m2.

Abstract: This invention relates to the constraint of a flexible body with low distortion and low uncertainty in its location. A class of mechanisms involving at least one pivot rocker is disclosed. These mechanisms fully constrain a body in space, but when constrained allow the flexible body to vibrate in the shape of one or more of its free mode shapes. Such a set of constraints yields a constrained system with high natural frequencies without over-constraining the body.

Abstract: An energy dissipating link includes: an elongated base having opposite, first and second end portions; and a plurality of touch fasteners permanently coupled to the base, each of the plurality of touch fasteners releasably engageable with at least one other of the touch fasteners. The plurality of touch fasteners is arranged on the base to form first and second closures, each including engagements between respective fastening elements of two or more of the plurality of touch fasteners. The plurality of touch fasteners is configured such that: in response to a tensile load applied to the end portions of the base, the engaged touch fasteners of the first closure are loaded in shear along a shear plane; and in response to a tensile overload condition causing shear displacement of the touch fasteners of the first closure, the engaged touch fasteners of the second closure are subjected to a peel load.

Abstract: When forces are input to a mount in a plurality of directions, an ECU changes the magnitude of a coil excitation current to change the strength of a magnetic field. At this moment, the elastic force of the mount can be changed in directions in response to the plurality of directions in which the forces are input using a plurality of magnetorheological elastomers (a brim-shaped MRE portion and a cylindrical MRE portion) in which magnetic particles are arranged in different manners.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a tube catcher for a hot forming machine comprising a foot for mounting the tube catcher in the hot forming machine, an upper contact surface for catching a glass tube as it falls into the hot forming machine, and a damping element, which is arranged below the upper contact surface in such a way that it allows the upper contact surface to elastically recede in the direction of the falling direction of the glass tube. This minimizes damage to glass tubes on impact and permits a high production speed. For this purpose, the damping element includes a compressible chamber that can be filled with a gas.

Abstract: Provided is a rotary damper that makes it possible to adjust braking torque characteristics. A rotary damper (1) that restricts the movement of a viscous fluid (6) with which the inside of a cylindrical chamber (200) of a case (2) has been filled and thereby generates braking torque against applied rotational force. A flow path (208) is formed in a partitioning part (204) of the cylindrical chamber (200), and a check valve (3) is movably arranged inside the flow path (208). When a rotor (4) has rotated in a normal rotation direction R1, the check valve (3) moves inside the flow path (208) in a closing direction M1 and closes the flow path (208) and, when the rotor (4) has rotated in a reverse rotation direction R2, moves inside the flow path (208) in an opening direction M2 and opens the flow path (208).

Abstract: A shock absorber reduces shocks when transitioning from a low speed region to a high speed region without impairing ride quality in an ultra-low speed region. The shock absorber includes a compression-side second damping passage connecting two chambers by bypassing a compression-side main valve opening/closing a compression-side first damping passage connecting the two chambers to give resistance to liquid flowing in the compression-side first damping passage, and a compression-side throttle valve throttling the compression-side second damping passage. The compression-side throttle valve includes a housing including a valve seat provided at one end, a case inserted in the housing enabling adjustment of a position in the housing, a valve body movably inserted at one end in the case toward the valve seat and restricted from moving to a side of the valve seat in the case, and a coil spring biasing the valve body to the side of the valve seat.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a stiffness-adjustable electromagnetic spring. The spring includes a central shaft, an intermediate electromagnetic force control component, and two end electromagnetic force control components, where the two end electromagnetic force control components are located on both sides of the intermediate electromagnetic force control component, the two end electromagnetic force control components and the intermediate electromagnetic force control component are both sleeved on the central shaft, and the intermediate electromagnetic force control component is coaxial with the two end electromagnetic force control components. The stiffness of the electromagnetic spring can be controlled online and the nonlinearity can be adjusted.

Abstract: Driveshaft dampers are provided for use in driveshafts to dampen or attenuate aspects of noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH). Systems and methods for making and using driveshaft dampers are further provided. The driveshaft dampers may be made using a helical-winding process and include attenuation strips with elongate protrusions. Various embodiments of helically-wound driveshaft dampers include a core and one or more attenuation strips helically wound around the core.

Abstract: A mass damper system has a damper mass carrier and a damper mass movably received at the damper mass carrier a lubricant supply, a lubricant collector, and a lubricant distributor radially offset to one another with the damper mass carrier, the lubricant supply arranged at a shorter radial distance from a central axis than the lubricant collector, and the lubricant distributor arranged at a greater radial distance from the central axis than the lubricant collector to collect lubricant supplied by the lubricant supply and to guide the lubricant through the lubricant distributor to the damper mass. A stop arrangement limits a deflection path of the damper mass relative to the damper mass carrier, and the lubricant distributor has a lubricant feed that leads from the lubricant collector to a constructional unit requiring intensive lubrication.

Abstract: In accordance with one aspect, an applicator is provided for applying staple fasteners to an end of a conveyor belt. The applicator provides advancing, clenching, staple driving, and final set operations that are coordinated by a drive of the applicator. In one form, the drive includes a cam plate and the applicator includes a handle that may be pivoted to turn the cam plate through a range of motion. Turning of the cam plate causes cam followers received in cam paths of the cam plate to shift and operate the mechanisms of the applicator. A method of using an applicator to apply conveyor belt fasteners is also provided.

Abstract: A synchronous belt having a tensile member layer with a tensile member embedded in an elastomeric body, a toothed surface with a plurality of regularly spaced, transverse teeth protruding from the body, a jacket covering the toothed surface, and a unidirectional fabric layer suspended in the belt between the jacket and the tensile member layer and following the approximate contour of the jacket.

Abstract: A quick release device having four release mechanisms and two levels of safety. The device includes a locking cover secured overtop a tumbler release mechanism. The locking cover includes two latches in opposing relation that are circumferentially guarded and require simultaneous actuation to unlock the cover. The cover can be translated about the main body of the device to reveal the tumbler release mechanism. The tumbler release mechanism requires simultaneous actuation of opposing release pins to release a tumbler carrying a load. Upon release, the tumbler falls from the quick release device. The two levels of safety that each require simultaneous actuation of their respective release actuators all but eliminate the possibility of accidental release of the load from the device.

Abstract: An automatic manual transmission comprising: a first sub-transmission configured for establishing even-numbered (2nd, 4th, 6th) gears and the reverse gear by a plurality of gear pairs (42/52, 44/54, 46/56, 40/50), and a second sub-transmission configured for establishing odd-numbered (1th, 3rd, 5th, 7th) gears by a plurality of gear pairs (41/51, 43/53, 45/55, 47/57); one or more output shafts (14, 15); one or more intermediate shafts (71, 72, 73, 74) each of which is coaxially and rotatably mounted either to an input shaft (11, 12) or to an output shaft (14, 15) and kinematically interposed between an output shaft and an input shaft; wherein said first sub-transmission is connected and disconnected to and from the output of the transmission by means of a first synchronizer (S1), and said second sub-transmission is connected and disconnected to and from the output of the transmission by means of a second synchronizer (S2).