Abstract:
A wheel hub with clutch where power is transferred through a drive, such as a chain that is linked between a pedal arrangement and a gear or gears splined onto the hub. The hub provides free-wheeling when torque is not applied thereto and will instantly engage, transferring an applied torque therethrough and into a wheel connected to the hub when torque is applied as through a pedal arrangement. For locking, the hub includes, as a radial load bearing component, a sleeve whereon a gear or gears are splined, with the splined gear sleeve mounting a thick ring for fitting into an end of a wheel sleeve. The thick ring contains spaced sloping pockets, each containing a ball bearing. The wheel sleeve includes an annular ring that receives the thick ring fitted there and has spaced steps, or the like, formed therein to engage the ball bearing surfaces, transferring torque.
Abstract:
An implementation of an ISDN router enables computers interconnected to each other and to the ISDN to share resources by issuing operating system commands. One computer can access a storage disk or other resource of another computer distributed at any terminal location on the ISDN. Each disk on the Network has a unique name by which it is accessed. The configuration of the Network and number of computers distributed on it are transparent to each user. To improve bandwidth utilization of the ISDN line while sharing terminal resources, a B-channel allocation algorithm executed by routers between the terminals and the ISDN line dynamically allocates bandwidth by monitoring traffic at each destination queue and in response allocating or deallocating virtual B-channels. Bandwidth utilization is optimized by packaging data packets into trains that are transmitted to the destination when the train is completed and upon satisfaction of other conditions. Each train undergoes data compression by execution of a suitable compression algorithm.
Abstract:
A concrete floor is constructed at least partially about a supporting hollow core tower. The hollow core tower, which preferably includes a rectangular section, closely conforms to the border of the floor at the elevational outside section where the floor is fastened. The floor at its edge, immediate the tower sides, is provided with beam defining folds preferably bent down at an angle in the range of 30.degree. to 60.degree. from the major plane of the floor. At least one beam at each tower and at least two non-linearly aligned beams at each floor are nested at the floor-tower interface, typically below the major supporting surface of the floor. The tower sidewall at the floor is transpierced and threaded to receive a tension support member angularly depending downwardly and outwardly from the inside of the tower to the outside of the tower. Likewise and in registry with apertures transpierced in the tower, the beam at the tower inside includes apertures extending angularly downward. Those apertures extend through the floor fold at the tower outside. When the floor is raised to its full supported height, bolts are threaded through tower sidewalls, horizontal beams and slab folds and fastened at opposite ends to receive tension. The resultant fastening provides a vertical support to the floor through and at the beam as well as a friction support of the floor to the tower sidewall.
Abstract:
A wheel rim for a human powered vehicle includes a rim with a braking surface and a wear indicator located beneath the braking surface, such that when the braking surface is worn away, the wear indicator is visually exposed. A method for determining if a predetermined amount of rim wear has occurred in a rim braking human powered vehicle is also provided.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a rim for a bicycle wheel includes wrapping plys of fibers in a resin matrix around a mandrel; curing the plys to form the rim; and reducing a size of the mandrel to allow the mandrel to be removed from the rim.
Abstract:
A wheel hub that provides a wheel that is free-wheeling in both directions of turning and is constructed to provide low rolling resistance, greater load carrying capacity and is more reliable that earlier hubs. The hub includes separate bearing systems for supporting, respectively, radial loads as perpendicular to a road surface, and axial loads as are side loads directed into the hub. The separate bearing systems include a pair of radial bearings for supporting radial loads, with each radial bearing of the pair mounted at each hub end to receive an axle fitted therethrough, and a pair of thrust bearings for supporting axial loads, with each thrust bearing of the pair mounted at a hub end, between the radial bearings outer surfaces and an axle mounting to a frame.
Abstract:
A bicycle rim constructed from a fiber reinforcement impregnated with a resinous material to provide stiffness, strength, is light in weight and presents minimal aerodynamic drag. The rim is constructed from two semi-circular rim sections that are each formed from glass, carbon, or boron fibers that are applied at distinctive crossing angles as layers or “plys”, receive an epoxy thermoset resin or a nylon thermoplastic resin, and are cured in a mold cavity. A pair of rim half sections are matched and are coupled together at their ends into a circle by telescoping aligned ends of each of the rim half sections over inner inserts that an epoxy structural adhesive has been applied to, and the joined rim section ends receive a gusset fitted and bonded along the rim half section end junctions, and with the finished rim drilled appropriately. to receive and mount spoke ends.
Abstract:
A reinforced concrete floor is constructed from a continuous slab defining a major and planar supporting surface. The continuous slab is folded at at least one beam defining path across its planar supporting surface and preferably includes a right angle grid of such folds with downward peripheral folds at the slab edges and downward V-sectioned folds to interrupt the major and planar supporting surface. By maintaining a constant vertical slab thickness and keeping the angle of the folds between 30.degree. and 60.degree. with respect to the major supporting surface, it is possible to nest and even construct a continuous stack of floors having identical overlying structural members and dimensions, such as the structurally and dimensionally repetitive overlying floors of a high-rise building. Moreover, when a nested stack of such floors is constructed or placed, the top floor of each nest in sequence at its beam defining folds can have beams placed immediately prior to lifting, while underlying floors await exposure to the top of the nest and placement of their beams in turn. Preferably, either cast-in-place or precast beams are placed from above the exposed floor into and fastened along the folds. This simultaneously completes the flat supporting surface of the floor as well as provides any needed and additional structural rigidity in the plane of the floor. Where the floors are nested at the base of a building vertical structural member, which can preferably be one or more central supporting towers, a building process results. Floors formed of folded, nested and stacked slabs are in sequence commencing with the top building floor and ending with the bottom building floor completed. Completion occurs by the placement of beams and/or flooring and sequentially raising and supporting each floor from the vertical structural member to provide a high-rise building.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to wind turbines and more particularly to a multi-element airfoil for a vertical or horizontal axis wind turbine. In one embodiment, a vertical wind turbine includes a plurality of blades arranged in an annular path around a central axis of rotation. Each blade includes a first element and a second element that are nestable together. The first element has a concave rear surface, and the second element has a convex leading surface. Each of at least 45% of the blades generates a lift in a direction of rotation of the turbine that is greater than a drag generated by the same blade.
Abstract:
A wheel hub with clutch where power is transferred through a drive, such as a chain that is linked between a peddle arrangement and a gear or gears splined onto the hub. The hub provides free-wheeling when torque is not applied thereto and will instantly engage, transferring an applied torque therethrough and into a wheel connected to the hub when torque is applied as through a peddle arrangement. For locking, the hub includes, as a radial load bearing component, a sleeve whereon a gear or gears are splined, with the splined gear sleeve mounting a thick ring for fitting into an end of a hub body. The thick ring contains spaced sloping slots, each containing a ball bearing. The hub body includes an annular ring that receives the thick ring fitted there and has spaced steps, or the like, formed therein to engage the ball bearing surfaces, transferring torque.