Abstract: A tensioning device is provided for selecting and imparting torsional bias to a shaft and simultaneously providing a shock absorbing mechanism, the device including a biasing disposed substantially within the shaft for imparting torsional bias to the shaft, a coupler rotationally fixing one end of the biasing strip to the shaft, and a hub member rotationally fixed to the other end of the biasing strip, the hub member being relatively rotatable with respect to the shaft and including a locking mechanism to lock the hub member to a stationary frame member when the desired torque has been reached.

Abstract: A two axis drive lugged belt and lugged pulley drive system driving a driven member independently in two, mutually perpendicular areas with the drive in each direction operational alone or simultaneously for vector movement of the driven member. Both X-Y axis are directly belt-driven by respective motors and with the axis considered "Y" the primary hysteresis minimizing drive is directed primarily to the lugged belt of substantial length in the "Y" axis. This is with the "Y" drive lugged belt routed around six pulleys to move the "X" axis carriage mounting and guide structure, with the belt attached at two points, at opposite sides of one end of the "X" axis carriage mounting and guide structure. The drive motor for the "Y" drive lugged belt is directly coupled to one of the six pulleys that is gear meshed to another of the six pulleys assuring precise synchronous counter-rotation of the paired set of pulleys at one corner of the "Y" drive.

Abstract: In a propeller driven outboard or inboard-outboard marine motor, the typical transmission comprising a transmission shaft coupled to the propeller shaft by bevel gears is replaced by a chain drive between the propeller shaft and a parallel output shaft coupled to the power plant of the motor. Torque is applied to the chain drive through a torque dependent variable pulley coupled by a belt to a speed dependent variable pulley which allow for a variable gear ratio. A chain tensioning means maintains tension on the chain.

Abstract: A positioning apparatus is disclosed which in one embodiment includes two orthogonal tracks, each having a rail, and a carriage coupled to the tracks and having pulleys in frictional engagement with the rails. Rotation of the pulleys causes the carriage and/or one of the tracks to be moved in one of the directions. In another embodiments only one track is used for translation in a single direction.

Abstract: An autotensioner for controlling the tension of a belt. It is filled with a hydraulic oil containing poly-.alpha.-olefin as a basic ingredient. Since such an oil has excellent viscosity-temperature properties as well as good lubricating properties, a body and a piston slidably mounted in the body are abraded less at their sliding surface than with a prior art autotensioner and thus the size of an oil leakage gap formed therebetween is less subject to change. This will prevent cavitation in a pressure chamber formed in the body.

Abstract: The invention concerns a tensioning device for the cable of a cable window lifter which is mounted in a drive bracket pulled up and down along a guide rail by means of a cable wound around an actuation drum. One cable end is solidly joined to the drive bracket whereas the other cable end is connected by a directional lock to the drive bracket. This directional lock compensates any cable elongation taking place within the cable actuation system by means of spring action. The tensioning device of the invention is characterized by providing further compensating means. This further compensation is needed in the event of excessive stresses exerted on the cable actuation system in the closed window position which results in a spurious cable elongation caused thereby. It also eliminates this compensation when this excess stress is no longer present.

Abstract: A transmission wheel (12) is shiftable in position radially relative to a driven member such as a bicycle wheel. A driving force is imposed to the transmission wheel (12). This driving force rotates the transmission wheel (12) and the rotational force is transmitted by drive spokes (106) from the transmission wheel (12) to a hub portion of a driven member. The radial adjustment of the transmission wheel (12) relative to the driven member changes the length of a torque arm (106, 130) which in turn changes the drive speed of the driven member. The torque arm length is the radial distance between the rotational axis (40) of the driven member and the location of drive force application onto the transmission wheel (12).

Abstract: An anti-chain wrap device has a plurality of lifters which are raised and curved to be adjacent the rotary path of the chainrings, respectively, to strip or free a struck chain from the chainring. The lifters are finger blade members which are joined near their lower ends to provide a more rigid construction.

Abstract: A valve operating mechanism for a high performance internal combustion engine including a flexible transmitter drive for the camshaft that includes a toothed belt. A timing retention sprocket is juxtaposed to one of the sprockets that is interengaged with the belt and which provides a positive drive therebetween in such a location as to prevent the teeth of the sprocket and belt from coming out of engagement.

Abstract: A self adjusting tensioning system for a variable transmission. An endless belt is advanced by and supported on a pair of spaced apart, variable diameter, sheaves which are independently movable between reduced and enlarged configurations and which result in the belt assuming different paths. A pair of rollers are rotatably mounted at fixedly spaced locations on an enlongated carrier member. One of the rollers is actively biased into engagement with the belt by a compression spring assembly. A cam surface on the carrier member proximate the other of the rollers is slidable along a fixed contoured supporting surface and passively assures engagement of the other of the rollers with the belt. As the ratio of the transmission changes with changed diameters of the sheaves and the belt thereby assumes a changed path, the belt is effective to automatically move the rollers therealong so as to maintain a substantially constant tension in the belt.

Abstract: The invention concerns a tensioning device for the cable of a cable window lifter which is mounted in a drive bracket pulled up and down along a guide rail by means of a cable wound around an actuation drum. One cable end is solidly joined to the drive bracket whereas the other cable end is connected by a directional lock to the drive bracket. This directional lock compensates any cable elongation taking place within the cable actuation system by means of spring action. The tensioning device of the invention is characterized by providing further compensating means. This further compensation is needed in the event of excessive stresses exerted on the cable actuation system in the closed window position which results in a spurious cable elongation caused thereby. It also eliminates this compensation when this excess stress is no longer present.

Abstract: An improved apparatus for retaining a pad or hub of a rotatable steering wheel of a motor vehicle in a non-rotating state, relative to the driver of the vehicle, irrespective of the rotation of the steering wheel provides for two retaining collars supporting a pair of rollers for retaining an endless belt. The endless belt is biased by an idler roller using a three point pressure applying flat spring with two of the pressure points located on the retaining collar.

Abstract: A continuously variable transmission in which a chain is capable of changing width in order to be accommodated on fixed conical pulley surfaces at desired varying radii on the pulleys, commensurate with desired gear ratio. The chain is comprised of individual links whose widths can be varied and locked at different widths. The links are locked into position when the chain is bent in one direction and become unlocked when the chain is bent in the other direction. Idle gears are provided to introduce the chain to the pulleys tangential to arcs about the pulley and at desired radius from the pulley center. The idler gears bend the chain in appropriate directions to unlock or lock the chain links at desired widths depending upon the location where the links engage the pulleys.

Abstract: A tensioning device is provided for selecting and imparting torsional bias to a shaft and simultaneously providing a shock absorbing mechanism, the device including a first hub member selectively connectable to the shaft, a second hub member rotatable wiht respect to the first hub member, a torsion coupling of elastomeric material connected at a first end to the first hub and at the other end to the second hub, and a locking mechanism to lock the second hub to a stationary frame member when the desired torque has been reached.

Abstract: For preventing very small amplitude vibrations of the rod in a tensioner during high speed movement of a belt to be tensioned by the tensioner, a tube which is connected to a plunger which moves together with the rod is overlapped with a stationary member so as to define an annular clearance therebetween in an operating chamber of the tensioner. By filling an operating fluid in the clearance, shear strain is generated upon high speed movement of the plunger, which resists movement of the plunger.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for winding and unwinding wire. The apparatus, which is mounted upon a motor vehicle, includes a plurality of drive pulleys, each with a detachable reel. The drive belt extends around the pulleys and a drive wheel on the motor vehicle to provide driving power to the drive pulleys and the connected reels. The drive belt can be moved to a second position apart from the drive wheel of the vehicle so as to act as a brake for the drive pulleys and reels.

Abstract: A drive mechanism and/or transmission for transmitting power or motion to an object includes an input driving member, an output driven member, and a rigid coupling member. By changing the arrangement of the driving and driven members and the shape of the rigid coupling member, the object can be either rotated continuously, rotated in a reciprocated motion, or translated.

Abstract: In an arrangement of the present invention, a connecting member is coupled with a belt attached to a saddle, and then a table is arranged on the saddle so that both ends thereof on its underside are connected with both ends of the connecting member. Thus, all the parts are connected with each other without being interfered with by the saddle or the like.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for fastening a first part to a second part, the two parts having an assembling backlash between them, this device comprising a bush with inner and outer threads with opposite pitches, interposed between the threads of a fastening screw and an inside thread of the second part matching with the outer thread of the bush.

Abstract: An improved safety control mechanism for a pulley apparatus of the type comprising main support bars having at least two wheels mounted at their centers a spaced distance apart between the bars and a swing arm assembly pivotally connected to the bars at a point between the centers of the wheels, the swing arm assembly comprising a pair of arms straddling opposing surfaces of the bars and pivotally connected to the bars by a main pivot mechanism extending through complementary aligned apertures in the arms and the bars, the improvement comprising a second bolt mechanism extending through a second complementary aperture disposed in either the bars or the arms and a slot disposed in the other of the bars or the arms; the second aperture or the slot provided in the bars being disposed in the second distance between the center mountings of the wheels; the second aperture or the slot provided in the arms being aligned with the other of the second aperture or the slot provided in the bars with the arms and the bars

Abstract: A coordinate measuring machine with a drive and braking arrangement for a spindle sleeve which is displaceable in the Z-direction through the intermediary of a threaded spindle. A motor power output or take-off shaft and the threaded spindle, which are arranged axially-parallel relative to each other, are in a driving connection with each other through the interposition of a belt drive with a belt tensioning and supervisory or monitoring arrangement, whereby a brake pulley is flange mounted to the belt pulley for the drive of the threaded spindle, and a braking clamp or a disc brake acts on the brake shoes.

Abstract: An alternator belt tension adjuster for conventional alternators and standard sloted brackets including a rack mounted adjacent the bracket slot engaged by a pinion and fastener extended through the slot into the alternator.

Abstract: An auto-tensioner for a belt has a cylindrical body having a bottom. A nut formed with female threads on its inner periphery and having a rod integrally formed at one end is slidably mounted in the body. A bolt is mounted in the body so that its male threads will engage the female threads on the nut. A belt loading spring is mounted between the nut and the bottom of the body to urge the nut in such a direction as to increase the tension to the belt. A bolt turning spring is mounted between the nut and the bolt to urge and turn the bolt in such a direction as to be pressed against the bottom of the body or in a direction away from the nut. Thus the nut and the bolt are moved either toward or away from each other according to the load from the belt which acts on the rod so as to automatically adjust the tension to the belt.

Abstract: A belt adjusting device for "V" belts which uses a gear made integrally with a nut, in cooperation with a locking mechanism, and gear teeth on a plate to produce relative movement between the plate and the mount, thus tensioning or loosening the "V" belt as desired, and allowing it to be locked into position with the locking mechanism, once adjusted.

Abstract: The chain tensioner has an arcuate curved bow with a correspondingly shaped, perforated sheet metal part extending over its entire length and which has a U-shaped cross-section. A plastics material layer is injection moulded all around said sheet metal part. A swivel bearing is located at one end, while at the other end a support part is provided, on which the bow is pressed against the chain running externally on a sliding surface.

Abstract: A flat belt CVT is disclosed in which an idler pulley is situated intermediate variable diameter driving and driven pulley assemblies and within the axial dimension given by their respective inner guideway discs. the frame supporting the idler pulley is linearly moved on a rail by the slack side belt forces to automatically position the idler pulley in an intermediate position between the belt drive elements of the driving and driven pulley assemblies in accordance with their instantaneous effective diameters. While many arrangements are possible (positioning of the idler may be accomplished on or from either side of the center line between the two pulley assemblies, etc.), a preferred disposition is disclosed in which the idler pulley is situated in a region external to the slack belt side in order that the support apparatus for the idler need not enclose moving belts.

Abstract: This invention relates to a mechanism for generating a non-rotation state of a non-rotation portion irrespective of the revolution of a steering wheel by disposing the non-rotation portion at the center of the steering wheel. The operation of the mechanism is accurate and correct and the mechanism is compact structurally. The invention employs an endless timing belt or belts to achieve the function described above.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for adjusting tension on a timing belt of an engine. The engine includes a driving pulley on its crankshaft, a driven pulley on its camshaft, an auxiliary pulley, a timing belt bridging over the pulleys and a tension pulley pressing against the belt at one side. The driving pulley is first reversely rotated while the driven pulley is held fixed in position thereby tensioning the portion of the belt between the auxiliary pulley and the driven pulley. The driving pulley is then rotated normally to overtension the tension side portion of the belt while the tension pulley is advanced to take up any slack. Thereafter, the tension pulley is retracted while the driving pulley is reversely rotated until deflection of the tension side portion of the belt reaches a predetermined target adjustment value. The tension pulley is then fixed in position.

Abstract: A tensioning device (10) for a flexible drive element (16), the tensioning device comprising a first tensioning member (40) having a first contact surface (58), and a second tensioning member (140) having a second contact surface (158). Straps (34, 36) and positioning devices (42, 44, 142, 144) secure the first and second tensioning members a selected distance away from one another. In one arrangement, the positioning devices form a ratchet-like mechanism arranged such that the force required to move the tensioning members toward one another is smaller than the force required to move the tensioning members away from one another. The tensioning device may be operated without any members securing the tensioning device with respect to the sprockets.

Abstract: An extended nip press has a looped belt mounted over a shoe having a concave surface which presses the belt against a mating surface on a roll to provide an extended nip. The shoe has a support which is movable in a skewing sense relative to the longitudinal axis of the roll. Lateral movement of the belt is monitored. When it has moved beyond predetermined limits in either direction, the shoe is skewed to alter the frictional forces on the belt as it passes over the shoe's surface. This controls the position of the belt and keeps it centered in the nip.

Abstract: The tightener is designed for use with belts driving oil well pumps but of course may be used in other environments. It consists of a belt idler pulley journalled for rotation upon the distal end of a mounting arm which in turn is secured for selective rotation by the other end thereof to a mounting bracket. A spring loaded actuating arm rotates the mounting arm through an arc from a belt tensioned position to a belt untensioned position and vice versa and the actuating arm may be selectively held in the belt tensioned position. An adjustment is provided between the actuating arm and the mounting arm to preset the angle therebetween and thus the relationship of the pulley with the belt. The inner end of the mounting arm and upper end of the actuating arm are mounted on a center line between the upper and lower runs of the belt so that the device can be adjusted to engage the outer surface of either of the belt runs depending upon drive direction.

Abstract: In a chain tightener with a dampening piston guided in a housing and axially acted upon by a spring in the chain tightening direction wherein the dampening piston is retainable by a mounting ring within the housing in a blocking position which is released through axial pressure in the direction opposite to the chain tightening direction, the inprovement comprising the mounting ring (30) snaps into a groove (29) which is located at the forward end of the dampening piston (3) and is provided with a bevelled surface (28) and an adjacent latch surface (27), and that the mounting ring (30) is shiftable onto the latch surface (27) via the bevelled surface (28) with a tool insertable in a gap (31) between the housing (1) and the dampening piston (3) wherein the mounting ring (30) engages in a notch (13) of the housing (1) thereby blocking a movement of the dampening piston (3) relative to the housing (1).

Abstract: A belt tensioner for a belt and pulley system is disclosed. The tensioner has a camming surface upon which a pulley axle rides, maintaining substantially uniform tension in the belt despite competing forces of the belt tension and a tensioner holding spring. The camming surface profile is generated, for example, when using a spring holding mechanism, by differentiating Hooke's Law.

Abstract: A chain tensioning device for chain and belt drives, comprising a tensioning head resiliently connected to a base and provided with a non-return device, wherein at least one pneumatic spring extends between the base and the tensioning head.

Abstract: A belt tensioner has a shaft having an external thread and rotatably mounted in a body, a torsion spring provided between the body and the shaft so as to urge the shaft in a rotational direction, and a cylindrical rod having an internal thread engaged with the external thread of the shaft. An upper end of the rod being projected from the body so as to be operatively connected to a tension pulley for a belt. The torsion spring and both the threads are arranged to project rod by the rotation of the shaft urged by the torsion spring.

Abstract: Cooling apparatus for a gas transmission system which includes radiator fans each driven in a desired direction from its respective drive-motor by way of a drive-belt with an associated belt tensioner, such belt tensioner including a one-way sprag-clutch coupled through a shaft and sheave to a respective drive-belt and having a direction of free rotation which corresponds to the direction of motion of said drive-belt necessary to produce motion of its respective radiator fan in the desired direction.

Abstract: Tension in the belt of a continuously variable transmission (CVT) is sensed and utilized in the CVT control arrangement. Apparatus for sensing the centerline tension of the belt are taught; these sensors provide the required tension signal to a signal meter or the control arrangement.

Abstract: A belt or chain tension producing apparatus comprises a tension head engageable with a chain, belt or the like of a chain or belt drive and a tension piston on which the tension head is carried. The tension piston is guided longitudinally slidable in a guide body which is simultaneously a mounting element and is acted on by at least one tension spring engaged with it which is supported at its other end on the base of the guide body. In order to provide a particularly compact structure and thus also a more universal structure, at least a part of one side of the tension piston projects laterally from the guide body and the tension head is mounted laterally on a mounting surface on that projecting part. A recess may be provided in the tension head to better mount it on the tension piston.

Abstract: In a tension providing device having a rotary shaft which rotates the spring force in an inserted casing, a pushing body which slide in an axial direction by the aid of the rotation of the rotary shaft, a seal bolt screwed with the base end portion of the casing, and a boot which covers between casing and pushing body, the mixing of dust and foreign matters from outside and the leakage of the lubricant coated or filled in the inner portion are prevented due to the covering of the boot and seal with bolt.

Abstract: An automatic tension adjusting mechanism for a winding and transmitting device for an automatic door includes a base fixed in a casing; a mount for a transmission wheel around which a belt is wound; the mount being disposed on the base slidably in the right and left directions where the mount forces the belt to be strained and relaxed, and being resiliently energized at all times in one of the directions where the mount forces the belt to be strained; a saw-toothed stop part provided on the mount and adapted to extend in the right and left directions; and an engagement piece provided on the base and adapted to be moved between an engagement starting position with the stop part and a disconnection position from the stop part; a spring between the base and the engagement piece for energizing the engagement piece in a direction where the engagement piece is engaged with the stop part; a tapped hole made in one of the members of the base and the mount; and a bolt screwed into the tapped hole.

Abstract: A tensioning device for a belt drive, especially for a V-belt drive for the drive of aggregates of an engine such as an internal combustion engine, with a fixed member and a member rotatable with respect thereto and carrying a tensioning roller resting against a belt, whereby a spring as well as a damping device having a damping force dependent on the operating condition which presses the tensioning roller against the belt, acts between the fixed and the rotatable part. In order to prevent a belt fluttering and a belt slippage in a defined manner, an additional damping device is provided between the rotatable and the fixed member or the engine which is controllable as a function of one or several operating parameters of the belt drive and/or of the engine and is operable only at certain values of these operating parameters.

Abstract: A tension providing device which enables to prevent the invasion of dust and water into a casing together with enabling the locking and the winding off of the torsion spring from the base side of the casing. This device is characterized by being provided with a rotatable shaft in the casing which only rotates by restraining the sliding in the axial direction of the casing, screwing the pushing body which slides by the rotation of the shaft with the shaft, supporting this screwed portion with bearing, and further screwing a seal bolt at the base portion of the casing.

Abstract: A spinner for rotating a pipe, such as a spinner mandrel, including a chambered frame having aligned openings through which the pipe can be inserted, drive assembly, such as a sprocket, rotatably mounted in the chamber, endless flexible spinning member, such as a multistrand roller chain, normally slackly encircling the pipe and the drive assembly, and clutch assembly, such as an idler sprocket in engagement with the multistrand roller chain and a hydraulically actuatable piston for laterally moving the idler sprocket, for decreasing the slack sufficiently to force the endless spinning member into frictional rotational driving engagement with the pipe. The preferred embodiment comprises a kelly spinner for use on an oil rig for independently spinning the kelly in order to more safely connect and disconnect drill pipe joints with the kelly during drilling operations.

Abstract: This specification discloses apparatus for locking and retracting the timing chain(s) or belt of overhead cam internal combustion engines. The apparatus consists of essentially two components; an adjustable Retractor and a spring loaded Lock. During maintenance and/or overhaul of the engine and following removal of the Rocker Arm Cover(s), the Lock is compressed and installed between the two sides of the timing chain and seated on top of the crank sprocket. Upon release, the spring of the Lock forces the two sides of the lock to expand and lock the timing chain into position around the crank timing chain sprocket and prevents the engine mounted timing chain tensioner piston from jumping out of detent and falling into the engine oil pan. Utilization of the Lock in the foregoing manner allows for the removal of the engine head which contains the overhead cam and upper timing sprocket without necessitating the removal of the engine front cover, fan, and oil pan.

Abstract: An inertia controlled loading system for an exercise apparatus or the like. The system includes a rotatable member mounted on a frame together with a mechanism for rotating the rotatable member through a drive pulley operatively associated with the rotating mechanism and a driven pulley operatively associated with the rotatable member. It also includes an endless belt member drivingly interconnecting the pulleys such that the belt member imparts rotation of the rotating mechanism to the rotatable member through the drive and driven pulleys which occurs because of the fact that the belt member has a surface in driving engagement with the pulleys. The system further includes a non-rotating frictional surface member in engagement with the belt member intermediate the drive and driven pulleys. With this construction, the inertia controlled loading system is suitable for an exercise apparatus or the like.

Abstract: A tensioning device (10) for a flexible drive element (16), the tensioning device comprising a first tensioning member (40) shaped to form a channel (52) having a first contact surface (58), and a second tensioning member (140) shaped to form a channel (152) having a second contact surface (158). Straps (34, 36) and engagement means (42, 44, 142, 144) secure the first and second tensioning members a selected distance away from one another by means of a ratchet-like mechanism arranged such that the force required to move the tensioning members toward one another is smaller than the force required to move the tensioning members away from one another. The tensioning device may be operated without any means securing the tensioning device with respect to the sprockets. Grooves (60, 160) are provided in the respective channels to maintain the sides of the flexible drive element out of contact with the channel sides.

Abstract: A self-contained tensioning device for a belt or similar structure and which includes a plunger slidably mounted in a body member, a free piston slidably mounted in the plunger and having a head portion extending from a shoulder of the body member and which contacts with an idler pulley so as to apply a tensioning face to the belt, a projection provided on the shoulder and projecting axially so as to minimize the distance between a portion of the idler pulley contacting the head portion and the shoulder of the body member.

Abstract: The device comprises a housing (3) in which are disposed a winch (4) for driving the cable (1) and capable of being driven by a motor (5), and end members (5a, 5b) each receiving an end portion of a sheath (6) containing the cable. The end members (5a, 5b) are each elastically biased by a compression spring (8a, 8b) mounted in the housing (3) coaxially with the cable (1). Each end member (5a, 5b) is provided on one of its sides with a set of teeth (9a, 9b) which extends in a direction parallel to the cable (1) and is engaged with a complementary set of teeth (11a, 11b) of a shoe (12a, 12b) disposed in the housing (3) in such manner as to be slightly slidable in the transverse direction when the end member (5a, 5b) of the sheath is moved in a direction parallel to the cable. An arrangement is provided for maintaining the shoes (12a, 12b) elastically bearing against the toothed side of the associated members (5a, 5b).

Abstract: An idler pulley adjustment mechanism for use with a sanding belt tightly wound on three co-planar pulleys includes a means for adjusting one of the pulleys in at least two axes. There is provided a vertical shaft secured to a hanger which is attached to a frame. Below the hanger is a tracking bracket secured to the shaft. The tracking bracket is adjustable by an offset threaded shaft for rotating the corresponding pulley shaft in one axis. A spring biases the tracking bracket relative to the upright frame. A second adjustable member is pivotally attached to the first adjustable member for providing adjustment of the pulley along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis. A set screw extending from the frame pivots the second adjustable member.

Abstract: An electromagnetic clutch is disclosed which includes a pulley and an electromagnetic coil. A hub is secured on a drive shaft and has a radially extending flange portion which faces the pulley at a predetermined axial gap. An armature plate is disposed in the axial gap between the pulley and the radially extending flange portion of the hub. The armature plate is elastically connected to the flange portion of the hub by a plurality of spring members. The spring members are provided with a pair of fittings radially opposed to one another at a predetermined radial gap to prevent excessive bending of the spring members during initial operation of the electromagnetic clutch. When the armature plate beings to rotate, each spring member bends to reduce the gap between the pair of radially opposed fittings to thereby absorb the impact force.