Abstract:
The invention relates to apparatus for driving a door or the like guided int least two guides using a drive (1) located in a channel formed as a guide track (2) and which consists of at least one turn-around pinion (5), a chain extending over drive pinion (4) and turn-around pinion (5) and at least one carrier element for a door panel or the like attached to the chain. A structurally simple apparatus which is installable in simple manner is achieved by forming the drive pinion (4), the turn-around pinion (5) and the chain together with the guide track (2) as completely preassembled unit (1). (FIG. 1)
Abstract:
A sliding door which is moveable back and forth by a stationary drive motornit, which has a drive pinion meshing with a gear rack attached to the door or the door's bottom rail, the gear rack being made of a series of adjacent rack segments extending in the sliding direction of the door and inserted in a retaining channel affixed to the door, the segments being manufactured as finished molded pieces and attached to each other with uniform tooth pitch along the rack, whereby the rack is low in cost, adaptable to various door displacement distances, and parts which are subject to heavy wear are readily replaceable.
Abstract:
A driving apparatus for an object which can be moved to and fro such as a te wing, comprising a guide block movable along a guide rail (1), said guide block being coupled to the object and to a driving member (2,2') movable by a motor and, with the aim of easy assemblage from only a small number of easily manufacturable components, consisting of a guide block component (3), having slidably supported thereon an actuating member (7), and of a manually actuated coupling member (5) spring-loaded towards the coupled position with the driving member, the actuating member (7) being in operative connection with the coupling member (5) through a bolt (8) stationary with said one member (7) and engaging at a sliding edge construction (9) formed in said other member (5) so that, when the actuating member (7) is displaced, the coupling member is brought against the direction of force of the spring acting thereon from the coupled position in the uncoupled position and automatically held in an end portion of the sliding edge construction in a rest position, while any displacement of the actuating member in the opposite direction will bring the coupling member under relief of the spring from the rest position again in the coupled position.
Abstract:
Sectional overhead garage door for low lintel heights, with the door leaf members of which, except for the one that is uppermost in the closed position, being guided in guide rails having a vertical, an arcuate, and a horizontal section, and with rollers of the uppermost door leaf member being guided in two guide rails, extending with an approximately horizontal section above and in parallel to the approximately horizontal primary guide section provided on the same side, and each of these being connected to an intermediate guide member adapted to be lowered from the horizontal in the direction of the upper frame zone, so that the uppermost door leaf member, when the door leaf is transferred into the closed position, passes into the plane of the closed door leaf along a shorter path than the remaining door leaf members. The arrangement of the intermediate guide member for the rollers of the uppermost door leaf member is such that a weight balancing shaft, torsion springs, and the rollers can be attached at a lower level. This is achieved by providing the intermediate guide member for the rollers of the uppermost door leaf member as well as the torsion shaft bearing at special bearing brackets in the two upper corner zones of the door frame, and fashioning the intermediate guide members with a linear zone between end sections that are of a curved and, respectively, angled configuration.
Abstract:
A method for forming in a single step metal slugs of tantalum, niobium or a base alloy of one of these metals, by cold pressing. A lubricant film is either an oxide coating on the metal, into which a polytetrafluorethylene of low molecular weight is embedded, or it is a film of chlorotrifluorethylene. A metal slug is shaped by means of a hard-metal punch with a crowned bottom surface on its punch head and a rounded undercut in the area of the transition from the punch head to the punch shank.
Abstract:
A method is described for the production of a ductile tantalum stock material for high-speed deformation use. A bar-shaped body is made from directly reduced tantalum powder of a given purity and is remelted repeatedly as a consumable electrode in an electron beam furnace. The obtained ingot is shaped into a slab which, after being machined to a smooth surface, is further worked to produce the stock material. At least one heat treatment under vacuum is included in the process of making the stock material.
Abstract:
A sectional strip 5 with an outward-facing outside 10 and an inside 11 for roll-up, fold-up, and similar gates exhibits at its top 6 and bottom 7 a point of articulation 8 that extends over the total width of the gate for pivoting the adjacent upper and lower, identically shaped sectional strip in relation to the plane of the gate, which consists of the sectional strips that are not rolled up, when rolled up onto the armor of rolled-up sectional strips. The point 8 of articulation at top 6 is in the form of at least one perpendicular cylindrical sector 12 with an outward-facing surface 13 and the point 8 of articulation at bottom 7 is in the form of at least one cylindrical sector 14 with an inward-facing surface 15. The surface at top 6 and the surface at bottom 7 have radii 16 and 17 of curvature that are practically equal in length. The centers 18 and 19 of curvature of the radii of curvature of the surface at top 6 and of the surface at bottom 7 are located on a straight line and are at an equal perpendicular distance from the plane 23 of the gate, which is constituted by the outsides 10 of the sectional strips 5, with both straight lines coinciding with the axis of articulation of ech point 8 and 9 of articulation. The distance of the straight lines from the outside 10 is less than that to the inside 11.
Abstract:
Apparatus is provided for supporting and drivingly opening and closing an overhead single-panel door such as a garage door. The apparatus includes drive rollers protruding from the plane of the door at respective opposite upper corners thereof, which drive rollers are bearingly supported by a plate member attached to the door. These drive rollers are supported from underneath and in driving contact with fixed guide tracks arranged at the building accommodating the door. In order to insure continuous firm driving engagement of the drive rollers with the topside of the guide track, a bearing bracket is rotatably supported at the drive roller axles, which bearing bracket in turn supports a pair of counterpressure rollers engageable directly at the underside of the guide track. The counterpressure rollers are spaced from one another in the direction of travel of the guide roller at respective opposite sides of a line through the axle with the drive roller and extending downwardly, such that at least one of these counterpressure rollers is continuously in supporting backing engagement with the guide track so as to assist in assuring a firm driving contact between the guide rollers and the guide track. In preferred embodiments, an additional spring support system is provided between the drive roller and the bracket supporting the drive roller axle and the door, so as to provide an additional biasing force in the downward direction on the drive roller. In preferred embodiments, the guide track is constructed as a C-shaped cross-sectional member, and the bearing bracket includes an extension which protrudes over the top of the guide track as a safety measure to support the door in the event of an axle breakage or the like.