Abstract: A screw press has a friction clutch for coupling the driving flywheel to the press spindle. The clutch is engaged by a hydraulic piston. To maintain a constant piston stroke as the friction clutch wears, a metering piston and cylinder are interposed between the clutch operating piston and the pressure fluid supply to trap pressure fluid in the clutch operating cylinder and to top it up as required, so that the operating piston stroke corresponds essentially to the fixed stroke of the metering piston. Fluid flow to the operating cylinder bypassing the metering piston is controlled by a normally closed valve arranged to be opened positively in dependence on the position of the metering piston, as the metering piston approaches the end of its stroke in the direction for pressurizing the clutch operating piston to engage the clutch. This arrangement ensures that the clutch cannot be inadvertently locked in an engaged condition.

Abstract: An assembling device including a tool to assemble a master link with the ends of a roller chain to form a continuous roller chain such as the drive chain utilized to drive a motorcycle. The device resembles a vise structure and includes a stationary plate or anvil with recesses receiving the headed end of the pins on a master link and a movable plate having a surface engaging a side plate to be press fitted onto the free ends of the pins of the master link with the movable plate including apertures into which the free ends of the pins may extend when the side plate is press fitted onto the pins inwardly of the grooves provided in the free end portions of the pins which normally receive a locking device.

Abstract: A device is provided for adjusting the relative position of two parts of the same piece by deforming an intermediate zone connecting these two parts together, by means of a conical screw, and having a tapped bore in which said screw may be screwed, and a cut out which extends from a first edge of the piece to said bore, wherein said intermediate zone further includes at least a second cut out opening into said bore, opposite said first cut out which defines with a second edge of the piece a deformable zone, forming a hinge, offset with respect to said bore.

Abstract: A balancer of a reciprocating machine having crank mechanisms includes an adjusting weight having one end supported by a reciprocating portion of a crank mechanism for the balancer. An adjusting weight support rotatably supports the other end of the adjusting weight with respect to a stationary portion of a body frame. The adjusting weight support is equipped with a weight support position altering mechanism for permitting alteration of the support position of the adjusting weight.

Abstract: A screw press comprises an actuator for producing a thrust parallel to an axis of a screw spindle so that by the use of the thrust the screw spindle is axially moved relative to a female screw which is threadably connected with the screw spindle, whereby the screw spindle is rotatably driven.

Abstract: Molds are mounted on a front platen and a moving platen. A plurality of ball screws are mounted between the front platen and the rear platen at equal distances from centers of the molds and at predetermined angular intervals. Ball nuts threadedly engaged with the plurality of ball screws, respectively, are mounted on the moving platen. A servo motor drives to move the moving platen in the axial direction of the ball screws through the ball screws and the ball nuts. A mold clamping force is generated by a stress occurring in the ball screws when the molds are closed.

Abstract: A tool useful for restoring a damaged door lock opening associated with a transportation vehicle comprises: a first die having a hole located therethrough and an outwardly extending projection; a second die having a hole located therethrough and an inwardly extending indent sized to be capable of receiving at least a portion of the projection, provided that at least one of the above-noted holes is threaded; and a threaded bolt adapted and sized to be capable of passing into at least a portion of both of the holes simultaneously, the bolt including threads which are engagable with the threads in the hole or holes as the bolt passes into the holes.

Abstract: For the production of coaxial corrugations in the walls of thin-walled tubes with very tight tolerances, the invention provides a device having jaws adapted to be moved equally in opposite directions and which press against the ends of the tube so as to have a corrugation formed therein so as to feed the tube wall axially towards the corrugation in the process of being generated. The jaws are moved by means of a central lead screw with screw threads of opposite hand.

Abstract: A riveting tool of simple design adapted for repeated one side riveting of rivet nuts particularly in mass production and also suitable for use with a reversible motor drive is provided with a single-threaded pull mandrel and a dolly with an opening corresponding to the external cross section of the threaded pull mandrel. The dolly is slidably arranged on the mandrel. A claw clutch having an upper and a lower part is arranged so that the upper surface of the body of the dolly contacts the lower part of the claw clutch. A retaining element with an opening corresponding to the external cross section of the threaded pull mandrel is freely turnable on the mandrel and the lower part of the retaining element contacts the upper part of the claw clutch for engagement with the lower part of the clutch. A tightening nut is screwed on the upper part of said mandrel. In another embodiment of the invention, an adjustable stop is fixed on the threaded pull mandrel above the tightening nut.

Abstract: Press for manufacturing molded or pressed products, comprising a press tool fixed at one end of a moving cylinder. Said moving cylinder is coaxially mounted inside a fixed guiding cylinder fixed and coaxially suspended inside a cylinder forming the outer envelope of the press. The press has a moving wall defining a first variable volume chamber, eight hydraulic jacks with free differential pistons arranged in crown about the central cylinder. The outer envelope comprises a widening provided with at least a bore wherein are arranged explosion means to cause the displacement of the press tool when the press is used as a combined pneumatic/explosion press. The press has reduced overall dimensions, and may be adapted to the manufacture of different articles at various working rates by simple and fast modifications.

Abstract: An apparatus for repairing a protruding portion of an outer grid strap spring includes a support frame made up of interconnected members defining a generally rectangular opening and a plurality of devices mounted on the frame members above and below the frame opening for attaching the frame to the outer strap of the support grid. At least some of the devices are adjustable for securing the frame in a stationary position on the outer strap so that the frame opening is stationarily aligned with the outwardly protruding spring on the outer strap. A pair of spaced apart rails attached to the members on upper and lower sides of the opeing define a guide channel therebetween which extends along the opening in a first direction.

Abstract: A device for punching holes in a surveyor's chain and in metal pieces used for repairing the chain and for riveting together the punched chain and metal pieces comprising an elongated vertical housing having an elongated vertically oriented opening extending transversely therethrough and defined by a continuous wall, an upper vertical bore extending from the top of the housing into the vertical opening, a lower female die element received in the lower portion of the opening and having a flat horizontally extending recess therein whose width is equal to that of the chain to be repaired, the female die element also including a pair of spaced holes located on the flat recess, an upper male die member received in the upper portion of the opening and vertically slidable therein, the male die member having a pair of punching rods projecting downwardly, an arbor shaft having a threaded portion received in a threaded portion of the upper bore, a handle for rotating the arbor shaft, the arbor shaft having a lower port

Abstract: The invention is a shifting mechanism for a screw press. The screw press includes a shifting coupling for the press spindle, a drive mechanism for continuously rotating a flywheel, a coupling mechanism operatively located between the flywheel and the shifting mechanism which is dependent upon angular deceleration and is controlled for the purpose of actuating the coupling mechanism. The shifting mechanism comprises a hydraulically actuatable shifting coupling. A hydraulically prestressed valve is located between the reaction mass and a rotating coupling portion that is connected to the flywheel. The coupling mechanism is controlled through the use of a hydraulic line and the prestressed valve is affected by the hydraulic pressure medium in that line acting upon the coupling mechanism.

Abstract: A press comprises a frame made up of two crossheads rigidly interconnected y means of uprights with two rams mounted therebetween one above the other. One of the rams has a built-in nut with a non-self-stopping thread to be thereby engaged with a screw rigidly connected to a die holder mounted for rotation in the other ram and geared to a drive for its translatory motion. Forced interaction between the nut and the screw is effected through a drive provided to actuate the ram with the nut and controlled from the drive of the die holder. There is provided a clearance of sufficient size between the rams to permit a specified angle of rotation of the die holder.

Abstract: A slide is vertically movable in a press frame and supports the upper die. A threaded main spindle is operative between the press frame and the slide. A clutch disc connected rationally rigidly to the spindle is connectable by friction contact to a driven disc flywheel for the operating stroke of the slide. Piston-cylinder units act between the press frame and the slide for returning the slide to the starting position. The spindle is axially clamped between two spring columns, one of which acts between one end of the spindle and the slide and the other of which acts between the other end of the spindle and a counter thrust bearing axially fixed in the press frame.

Abstract: A flare is formed on the end of a tubular waveguide of elliptical cross-section by first expanding a pair of flaring lugs along the major axis of the ellipse and then by expanding a second pair of flaring lugs along the minor axis of the ellipse.

Abstract: A screw press has a flywheel rotationally connected to the press spindle by way of a friction coupling. The spindle is displaced axially in a nut mounted in the upper cross member of the press frame, and the flywheel has external toothing with a width corresponding to the maximum pressing stroke plus the width of the driving pinions. A plurality of pinions engaging in the said toothed rim are each driven by an oil-hydraulic axial piston motor or by a pair of oil-hydraulic axial piston motors and the axial piston motors together with the pinions are disposed on a platform surrounding the upper cross member of the press frame. In order to reduce the structural expenditure and to increase the operational reliability, each axial piston motor or pair of axial piston motors associated with a pinion has associated with it on the platform a controllable pump which is driven by a respective electric motor and is reversible with respect to the flow direction.

Abstract: A press comprises a frame made up of two crossheads rigidly interconnected y way of uprights with two rams mounted therebetween one above the other. One of the rams has a built-in nut with a non-self-stopping thread to be thereby engaged with a screw rigidly connected to a die holder mounted for rotation in the other ram and geared to a drive for its translatory motion. Forced interaction between the nut and the screw is effected through a drive provided to actuate the ram with the nut and controlled from the drive of the die holder. There is provided a clearance of sufficient size between the rams to permit a specified angle of rotation of the die holder.

Abstract: This invention relates to a tool for uniformly compressing a non-resilient metal ring to a smaller diameter which comprises an outer hollow receiver provided with a handle for manually holding the receiver against turning, a threaded shaft in the receiver which at its one end within the receiver has rotatably mounted thereon a collet which upon being drawn into the receiver by rotation of the threaded shaft causes the fingers of the collet by engagement with the inner wall of the receiver to move inwardly or toward each other to thereby uniformly compress to a smaller diameter a metal ring mounted in the ends of the collet fingers.

Abstract: Portable swaging tool for affixing a battery terminal onto an electrically conducting cable, such as for the starting motor of an internal combustion engine, especially with the cable already installed in the confined space of a vehicle engine compartment. Portions of a short handle member and a pivoted clamping member have cooperating jaws to receive a battery terminal between them. The handle member carries clamping means adapted to engage the clamping member to force the jaws together sufficiently to swage a terminal onto a cable end inserted into a bore in the terminal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a louver fabricating tool comprising a shaper element and a die element. The die element includes a recessed area having side walls and projections and an outwardly tapered apex wall. The shaper element includes an abutting region designed to fit a portion of the recessed area. The louver tool is portable and can form louvers in situ in sheet like material capable of being deformed because the louver tool only requires access to one side of the deformable sheet-like material in order to fabricate the louver.

Abstract: A mortiser device and method for applying a mortise or offset in the edge of a hollow metal door where a dead bolt or other latch is to be installed. The method and device comprises a die block adapted to be positioned inside of the door edge at a point adjacent where a mortise is to be formed in the door edge, a cavity in the die block, a mortising block operatively connected to the die block by a pressure application device, whereby the mortising block is disposed on the outer side of the door edge adjacent the die block and a portion of the door edge extends between the die block and the mortising block. The pressure application device extends between the die block and the mortising block through the aperture in the door edge, and the pressure application device is adapted to press the mortising block and the portion of the door edge extending between the die block and the mortising block into the cavity in the die block to form an offset in the door edge.

Abstract: A crimping tool having an adjustable anvil and a crimp pin movable toward the anvil has means for limiting the movement of the crimp pin toward the anvil.

Abstract: A portable swaging tool for affixing, onto the end of an electrical cable, a terminal of the type that fits on the terminal post of an electrical storage battery such as may be used to drive the starting motor of an internal combustion engine. A handle carrying one of a pair of cooperating jaws has pivoted to it a clamping member carrying the other cooperating jaw so as to be juxtaposed to the first jaw when the free end of the clamping member is swung to and against the handle. The handle also carries clamping screw means for forcing the clamping member against the handle to clamp a terminal pre-inserted between the jaws and to swage the terminal tightly onto the end of a battery cable pre-inserted into a bore in the terminal.

Abstract: This invention relates to the joining of two metal sheets such as in the repair of automobile body components. There is provided a tool which may be utilized to first form a dimple in one or more sheets, and then form a bore through the one or more sheets in alignment with the dimple so that the head of the fastener utilized to join the sheets may be recessed within the dimple and covered by a suitable filler material to provide a flush surface. The tool and the method of utilizing the same are particularly adaptable for securing together sheets utilizing conventional pop rivets.

Abstract: A gear rolling machine in which a work gear and a conjugate gear-like rolling die are rotated in tight mesh with relative radial pressure of metal deforming intensity applied between the rotating members. The radial feed which applies the pressure is applied by a power train which includes a worm-worm gear combination driving a screw shaft-nut combination. After maximum pressure has been applied, the center distance is reduced by limited predetermined axial movement of the worm, without rotation, in which the worm acts as a rack to provide a predetermined limited rotation of the worm gear, and hence of the screw-nut combination.

Abstract: A screw press includes a ram, mounted for reciprocating movement relative to a press body, having a rotatably mounted threaded spindle extending therefrom, and a flywheel joined to the spindle for transmitting movement to the ram. The flywheel is driven by a friction disk which is arranged to engage the outer periphery of the flywheel, the disk being mounted on a shaft supported in the press body for rotational and axial movement relative to the body. When desired, the shaft can be axially moved to cause the disk to engage the flywheel, and an associated drive unit including a drive motor operates to rotatably drive the disk, thereby causing the ram to be moved within a work space in the press body. Preferably, one or more pairs of friction disks are arranged about the flywheel, each of the disks having an associated drive unit whereby the ram can be moved at different speeds and its direction reversed in accordance with the types of drive motors provided in the drive units.

Abstract: A portable hose fitting crimping machine using an interchangeable cartridge die assembly in conjunction with a portable framework so as to provide for an efficient means for crimping hoses and couplings of different sizes without reliability and calibration problems.

Abstract: Apparatus for forging a shaft flange comprises a forging press having a fixed plate and a moving platen. The moving platen carries a finish-forging die as well as a plurality of upper preforming dies while the fixed plate carries a rotary table having a series of like lower dies arranged in a circle. In use, a workpiece is carried by one of the lower dies sequentially into engagement with the upper preforming dies and the finish-forging die by rotational indexing movements of the table so that both the preforming forging operations as well as the finish forging operation are carried out in the same press. The finish-forging die is located substantially on the central axis of the press frame and the rotational axis of the table is spaced from this central axis.

Abstract: A tool for toggle-screw anchors in which the anchor sleeve has flanged and threaded ends and an intermediate longitudinally slotted section which collapses radially outwardly (to grip the rear side of a wall while the flanged end is engaged with the front side of the wall) upon movement of the threaded end toward the flanged end, the tool herein being characterized in the provision an elongated body of strip material having a narrow end bent to form a handle and having a wide end with an opening therethrough through which the shank of a hex head actuating screw extends for clamping said wide end between the flange of an anchor sleeve screwed onto said actuating screw and a spacer washer (s) of selected thickness between the head of the actuating screw and the wide end of the body.

Abstract: A swaging tool assembly for also bending, cutting and flaring tubing which includes a tubing holding block connected to a tool support by a sliding stabilizer bar and a main bar rotated by a speed bar handle. The block has a cutter wheel cooperating with tube guides on the tool support. On the upper part of the support is rotatably mounted a head from which project a plurality of conically configurated flaring ends for flaring by swaging a tube held at one end in a seat on the block. A bending lever with telescopic handle is pivoted eccentrically to the lower end of the support which has tube bending means.

Abstract: The ram of the press is accelerated to an acceleration-terminating point whereat it attains a speed providing for the required energy of impact upon the work. During the acceleration, the velocity of the ram is measured, as well as the deviation of the actual point of attaining the required speed relative to the preset acceleration-terminating point. Depending on the value of this deviation, either the extent of the acceleration path is varied, with the acceleration value maintained constant, or else the acceleration rate is varied, with the acceleration path length remaining permanent. To effect control by varying the acceleration path length, the control system is provided with specific electric circuitry controlling a transmitter generating a signal sent to a solenoid-operated valve, to vary the latter's position so as to vary accordingly the approach portion of the ram's stroke, and thus to vary the acceleration path.

Abstract: A screw press comprising a flywheel rotatable continuously in one direction and a pneumatically operated coupling, selectively operable to couple the flywheel to the screw for a working stroke, wherein the coupling has a pressure chamber supplied by way of a one-way valve and dischargeable by the action of an inertial mass which rotates with the screw during its working stroke and inertially relative to the screw at the end of the working stroke to open a discharge orifice of the pressure chamber. A valve piston is moveable axially of the screw in a cylindrical recess, serving as an input chamber for supply air, which valve piston projects into a second chamber, connected to the atmosphere and having an opening, coverable by the valve piston, for supply and discharge of the pressure chamber.

Abstract: A tool for toggle-screw anchors in which the anchor sleeve has flanged and threaded ends and an intermediate longitudinally slotted section which collapses radially outwardly (to grip the rear side of a wall while the flanged end is engaged with the front side of the wall) upon movement of the threaded end toward the flanged end, the tool herein being characterized in the provision of an L-shaped body having an elongated tubular leg with an actuating screw extending therethrough and projecting axially beyond one end thereof for screwing of the anchor sleeve thereonto with its flange snugly engaged with one end of the tubular leg while the other end of the tubular leg is engaged by the head of the screw. The body also has an elongated radially extending leg which is adapted to be held against the front side of the wall to position the tubular leg, screw, and anchor sleeve thereon perpendicular to the wall when the anchor sleeve is inserted into the hole in the wall.

Abstract: A device for crimping a rigid, tubular ferrule for securing a coupling to a flexible hose comprising a pair of crimping dies, each die having a concave face and spaced ribs formed on each of the concave faces. The ribs have a ramp portion formed on opposite ends thereof and in the knotched central portion. The die support has a central web having a flange extending outwardly from each end, one of the flanges being adapted to hold one of the dies. The second die is moveable along a track formed on the central web defining a straight path toward the first die. A screw urges the moveable die along the track to engage the first die and perform the crimping operation.

Abstract: A press featuring double-ended pressing action upon the blank, made use of in pressforging practice. The frame of the proposed press mounts the slides carrying the female die halves and those carrying the male dies, both of said groups of slides reciprocating towards each other. The slides carrying the male dies are actuated from the hydraulic power cylinders linked with their movable members to the slides through lead screws which in turn interact through their threading with the fly-wheels rotatably mounted on the frame. The essence of the invention resides in that the lead screws with their one end are movable associated with the male-die carrying slides and with the other end they are locked-in with the movable members of the hydraulic power cylinders actuating said screws, while the flywheels are interconnected through a mechanical gearing.

Abstract: A drive of a hydraulic screw press comprises a power cylinder incorporating a movable member connected with the press slide. A limit switch actuated by the downward travel of the slide opens a shutoff valve which permits fluid to flow through an adjustable flow-restrictor to actuate the piston of a pneudraulic cylinder within a preset time period determined by the adjustment of the flow restrictor. At the end of the preset time period, the rod of the piston will have traveled a distance sufficient to actuate a limit switch to control a valve arrangement for discharging the pressure in communication with the power cylinder. The slide is returned to the initial upper position by a cylinder under a constant pressure.

Abstract: A tool for forming a depression in a strap of material which is disclosed to comprise a C-clamp base, a reaction cup on one arm of the C-clamp base and a bolt-like deforming member threadedly mounted through the other arm of the C-clamp base. A bearing is provided at the head of the bolt to facilitate deformation and locator means are provided on the base of the clamp to gauge the distance of the depression from the edge of the material in which the depression is to be formed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for straightening combine rasp bars mounted on a rasp bar wheel. The device includes a bar having at one end a surface designed to engage the rasp bar axle. The other end of the bar is telescopingly received in a sleeve having located therein a bolt for adjustably positioning the bar within the sleeve. Attached to the outside of the sleeve is a wedge which serves to engage the inner side of the rasp bar so that the rasp bar may be bent outward to its original position by use of the positioner between the bar and the sleeve. Attached outwardly of the engaging wedge on the sleeve is an underslung receiving pocket which receives a crossbar having at either end bolts which may be used to force the rasp bar inward.

Abstract: A screw press wherein slides carrying stamping tools are arranged on the frame coaxially with one another for reciprocation in opposite directions and connected to nuts cooperating with motion screws mounted on the frame, provided with flywheels and having right-hand and left-hand threads. A stamping die is arranged on the frame between the slides in such a manner that the splitting plane thereof is aligned with the stamping axis, one die is fixed to the frame and the other die is secured to a slide which is mounted in guides extending in the frame perpendicularly to the stamping axis, and there is provided a mechanism for clamping the dies during stamping. The motion screws are mounted in the frame for axial reciprocation during stamping. The press according to the invention is preferably used for stamping blanks of parts having asymmetrical distribution of metal mass lengthwise of the blank, such as turbine blades, compressor vanes and the like.

Abstract: A device for electrohydraulic die-forging comprises an explosion chamber and a die with a blank pressed against said chamber in the course of die-forging. The mechanism for moving the die plate and pressing the die against the explosion chamber is formed by a kinematic screw-and-nut pair. The progressively moving element of said pair is rigidly connected to the die plate, whereas the rotatable element of said pair is kinematically linked with a drive for moving said die plate. The rotatable element is also linked kinematically with an independent drive for pressing the die against the explosion chamber when the die plate drive is disconnected.

Abstract: An apparatus for adjusting biasing forces of leaf springs, for example, those incorporated in an armature of an electromagnet relays. The apparatus is adapted to measure the biasing forces of the leaf springs, to compare the measured values with a reference value, to determine the direction and the extent of the required adjustment and to impart a plastic deformation in the determined direction and by the determined extent thereby to correct or adjust the biasing force to make the later fall within a predetermined range.

Abstract: A tool and method for trueing damaged or bent areas of circular and other curvilinear rims such as wheel rims for bicycles, motorcycles, and the like either with or without tires on the rims. The tool includes a rim engaging flange for engaging an inside circumferential surface of the damaged, bent rim area. Lateral arms are provided for supporting a portion of the outer circumferential rim area adjacent the damaged, bent areas, and a wing nut for moving the rim engaging flange relative to the supporting lateral arms to true the bent area with respect to the supported area.

Abstract: A wedge press is provided with a press frame; a reciprocatingly displaceable ram; a reciprocatingly displaceable wedge for acting on the ram; and means for effecting displacement of the wedge to cause the wedge to act upon the ram and thereby to effect displacement of the ram, with the wedge and the press frame having a pair of mutually engaging contact surfaces and the wedge and the ram having a pair of mutually engaging contact surfaces, and at least one said pair of mutually engaging contact surfaces having a special configuration to provide improved guiding of the wedge.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for placing adjacent bone ends under end to end compression using a staple having spaced apart prongs adapted to be forced into adjacent bone ends, said prongs being connected at one end by a head member having at least two spaced apart transverse ribs, removably engageably by a drive means for inserting the prongs in the bone ends and then forcing the ribs of the head member together to urge the prongs together and toe them in.

Abstract: A crimping tool for use with a stranded cable connector having co-aligned sleeve openings, including a first member with a crimping portion; a piercing portion extended from the first crimping portion; a second member with a crimping portion and a recess for receiving the piercing portion and means to move the first and second crimping portions towards one another. A loose fitting cable connector sleeve with an inserted cable portion is positioned on the second crimping portion and the piercing portion is moved through the sleeve openings, thereby displacing the cable strands toward the interior wall of the sleeve, and forming a through passage. Movement of the cooperating crimping portions continues until the crimping portions have formed flat surface areas along the entire length of the sleeve thereupon and further movement is limited by an adjustable stop.