Abstract:
The present invention provides a speed control system for use in maintaining the rotational speed of an output shaft of a power takeoff unit within a predetermined range. A central control unit receives signals indicative of the speed of the input gear and, in response to the received signals engages and disengages the output shaft of the power takeoff unit. The central control unit also disengages the output shaft if the system's voltage levels drop below a preset minimum.
Abstract:
A driver return assembly for an electro-mechanical fastener driving tool. The tool is of the type provided with a driver which is frictionally moved through a working stroke by means of an electrically driven flywheel which presses the driver against a support element, such as a counter rotating flywheel, a low inertia roller, or the like. The driver return assembly comprises at least one elastomeric cord being attached at one of its ends to the driver and at the other of its ends to an anchor within the tool. The at least one elastomeric cord, between its ends, passes about at least two pulleys. One of the pulleys is mounted on a spring supported shaft to compensate for stretch of the at least one elastomeric cord to assure that the driver is returned to its normal, retracted position after each working stroke.
Abstract:
A flow meter apparatus for measuring the mass flow rates of fluids passed through a cantilever mounted oscillating sensing tube where the capability of the meter to measure low mass flow rates is enhanced by using a sensing tube which has a low torsional spring constant about its longitudinal axis. Mounted parallel to this sensing tube, also in a cantilever fashion, is a second tube which has essentially identical moments of inertia and spring constants. Connecting the two tubes at their free ends is a lightweight rigid structure. The two tubes with the connecting structure can be sinusoidally driven so that when a fluid is passed through the sensing tube generated Coriolis forces torsionally deflect the connecting structure about an axis located midway between the tubes. Such torsional deflection is a function of the mass flow rate of the fluid passing through the sensing tube, and this mass flow rate can be measured by determining the time required for the second of the two tubes to pass through the mid-plane of oscillation after the first tube has passed through that plane.
Abstract:
Method and apparatus for measuring mass flow, and particularly the sum or difference in mass flow of distinct streams of flowing materials, wherein a plurality of channels are provided in one or more conduits rotating or oscillating as a common unit with additive streams or a common stream being flowed through the channels in a first direction and subtractive streams being flowed through the channels in an opposite direction, and in which the net Coriolis force imposed upon the conduit unit is measured.
Abstract:
An impact device, useful for driving nails, staples and other fastening elements. The driving member is driven by frictional engagement with a rotating high speed flywheel. The device has a safety provision whereby it cannot be actuated until the nose of the device is pressed against a work piece. This action also produces a movement of a support means, such as a roller, towards the rotating flywheel. It should be pointed out that the tool could be designed, in the alternative, with a fixed support means and movable flywheel. Actuation of the trigger moves the driving member into engagement between the support and the rotating flywheel, and the flywheel propels the driving element in a fastener driving direction. The support means is provided with a leaf spring permitting it to yield so that the driving member can pass between the flywheel and the support means while maintaining frictional engagement between the flywheel and the driving member. Inertia of the support means aids in efficient engagement of the flywheel with the driving member. The driver is connected to an elastic member, so that when the tool is lifted from the work, the movable support means is moved away from the fixed flywheel, and the elastic member then retracts the driving member between the flywheel and the support means to a position out of contact therewith. The flywheel can be driven by any of several drive means including compressed air, internal combustion and electric drive means. The preferred embodiment is powered by a single electric motor.
Abstract:
A high voltage current transformer, and method of constructing same, including a primary winding having concentric leads, and a secondary winding on a magnetic core which is inductively linked with the primary winding. The magnetic core is a wound, two part core, with the two core parts being joined by stepped-lap joints. The secondary winding is a distributed winding having turns which are uniformly distributed about the complete magnetic circuit of the magnetic core. The conductor of the secondary winding is severed and the associated ends electrically re-connected, each time the conductor passes a stepped-lap joint.
Abstract:
A wind turbine is disclosed. The wind turbine includes a shaft rotatable about an axis, a plurality of hubs fixedly attached to the shaft, and a plurality of vanes. The vanes are releasably engaged with each of the plurality of hubs. The vanes disengage from the hubs once the shaft rotates about the axis at a cut-out speed of the wind turbine. In another embodiment, the vanes are releasably engaged with the shaft.
Abstract:
A process is described for enhancing the yield of liquid products from natural gas from at least one extraction well. This process is achieved by injecting methane at a higher pressure than the rock pressure in at least one injection well site. The methane serves to maintain the pressure of gas in the formation, while also promoting the flow of liquid products away from the injection well and towards a collection well. The net effect is higher net yield of liquid products (referred to as “Y-Grade” liquids) from that well, with lower net yield of non-condensable methane. Because methane is naturally present in natural gas, the gas remaining underground is still a valuable product that can be trapped in the future. The use of the dry gas as the fracturing medium reduces or potentially eliminates the need to use water in fracturing process.
Abstract:
An electrical enclosure includes a housing having a first end, an opposite second end, and a plurality of sides disposed therebetween to define an internal volume; an electrical busway having a number of electrical bus members, wherein at least one of the number of electrical bus members has a first bus member, a second bus member and a number of fusible links electrically connected between the first bus member and the second bus member, wherein the at least one of the number of electrical bus members is structured to electrically conduct a rated current, wherein the number of fusible links are structured to electrically conduct the rated current, and wherein the number of fusible links are structured to vaporize responsive to a current which is substantially greater than the rated current.
Abstract:
A circulation controlled vertical axis wind turbine is presented. The circulation controlled vertical axis wind turbine comprise one or more airfoils in communication with the turbine via a rotatable support shaft and an airfoil support structure. The one or more airfoils have a blowing slot disposed near the trailing edge, and a controller and control means modulates a flow of air between the blowing slot and an internal cavity of the airfoil.