Abstract:
An actuating system, comprising a base part and a moving part, which can be moved by a compressively preloaded piston/cylinder assembly that comprises a cylinder and a piston rod, wherein a piston on the piston rod divides the cylinder into two working chambers, wherein the base part has an externally powered drive device that stands in operative connection with the moving part and functions in opposition to the operating force of the piston/cylinder assembly, wherein a control system monitors the motion of the moving system and detects an obstacle when a parameter representing the motion deviates from a stored parameter by a threshold limit, wherein the actuating system in the unpowered state holds the moving part with the aid of a locking device, wherein the locking device is formed by a flow connection between the working chambers of the piston/cylinder assembly and a pilot valve for controllably blocking fluid flow through the flow connection.
Abstract:
A rotation deceleration device used for a sanitary cleaning device which includes a toilet seat and a toilet cover and is attached to a toilet bowl, thereby injecting warm water in the toilet bowl. The rotation deceleration device includes a cylinder having a hydraulic chamber filled with a control oil; a rotation shaft inserted through the cylinder; a control wall radially projected from the rotation shaft to divide the hydraulic chamber into at least two sub chambers; a control valve provided between the control wall and an inner surface of the cylinder. The control valve has a closing wall opposed to a side surface of the control wall so as to be attachable thereto and also has an engaging member opposed to the other side of the control wall so as to be engageable therewith in accordance with the rotation of the rotation shaft. The control valve is formed of a material which has a higher coefficient of thermal expansion than that of a material forming the control wall and the cylinder.
Abstract:
An improved door closer is provided which has a back checking arrangement including a loosely held resilient cushion bar which is engaged by a metallic shield abutting sliding cam plates during a final few degrees of opening of a door to provide an increasing resistance against further opening of the door. The shield preferably engages the cushion bar approximately 4.degree. prior to a normal full open position of the door. Selective thickness of the cushion bar provides either a 90.degree. full open position of the door or a 150.degree. full open position of the door without additional adjustment.
Abstract:
A valve for adjusting the closing speed of a door closer includes a generally cylindrical valve member having a tubular portion and a solid portion. The valve member is received with sliding contact in a blind-end bore of a valve body. The wall of the tubular portion of the valve member has an opening which is positionable into communication with an inlet conduit provided in the valve body in such a way that an axial adjustment of the valve member changes the cross-sectional area of the passage created between the inlet conduit and the opening. A body of elastic foam material with closed-wall cells is arranged in the interior of the tubular portion and is placed across the opening. In operation, fluid flowing through the valve applies pressure to the body and presses it away from the opening, so that the fluid can flow between the wall of the tubular portion and the body of elastic foam material without creating a hissing sound.
Abstract:
An automatic door closer constructed for releasably holding a door in a predetermined partly open position mainly comprises a piston arranged in a cylinder bore of a housing and operatively connected to a closer shaft mounted in the housing turnable about an axis substantially normal to that of the cylindrical bore so that the piston will be reciprocated in the bore during turning of a door connected to the closer shaft. The piston divides the bore in the housing in two compartments filled with fluid and a coil compression spring in one of the compartments biases the piston to an end position corresponding to the closed position of the door. The piston is provided with two passages therethrough, in one of which a one-way valve is arranged permitting flow of fluid only from the one compartment into the other during movement of the piston in door opening direction. The other passage is closed when the door reaches a predetermined partly open position preventing thereby fluid flow from the other compartment into the one compartment so that the door is held in this partly open position. The elements for closing the other passage comprise a valve member of a holding valve biased by a spring to a closed position so that the door may be moved in closing direction from the partly open position in which it is held only by application of an outer force applied thereto overcoming the biasing force of the spring acting on the valve member.
Abstract:
A door closing device of the type having a piston and cylinder is described, the piston being movable within the cylinder under the bias of a spring and being connected to an arm mechanism which is arranged to transmit movement of the piston into pivoting movement of a door and vice versa, the device including a number of by-pass channels arranged to bring portions of chambers separated by the piston into communication with one another, whereby to limit the speed of flow of a dampening medium contained in the cylinder and passing through the channels as the piston is reciprocated.
Abstract:
A fenestration automated operating system includes a fenestration frame, fenestration panel and one or both of a panel operating assembly or a panel latch assembly. The panel operating assembly is coupled with one or both of the fenestration frame or the fenestration panel. The panel operating assembly includes a panel actuator coupled with the panel actuator. A panel latch assembly is coupled with one or both of the fenestration frame or the fenestration panel. The panel latch assembly includes a latch and a latch actuator coupled with the latch. A fenestration controller is configured to operate each of the latch actuator and the panel actuator.