Abstract:
A tracking valve which can be mounted on a tool-supporting carriage in a machine tool and whose main valve member is a spool which is movable axially in a valve body to thereby start a hydraulic motor for the carriage so that the motor can move the carriage relative to a template while simultaneously moving one or more tools relative to a workpiece. The spool has a relatively large surface at one end, a relatively small surface at the other end, and an axial bore for a pilot valve member which is mechanically connected with a follower for the template and is movable by the follower to thereby regulate the pressure of a fluid acting against the larger surface of the spool. The smaller surface of the spool is subjected to a constant fluid pressure and such constant pressure can be assisted by the bias of a spring. The spool has lands which control the flow of fluid to and from the motor by way of ports machined into the housing of the tracking valve and the pilot valve member has two fluid flow regulating surfaces which flank an annular control chamber communicating with a compartment provided in the housing adjacent to the larger surface of the spool. When the pilot valve member is moved axially, either by the follower or by a resetting linkage which can be moved by an indexible cam drum, the fluid flow regulating surfaces change the pressure of fluid in the compartment and thus effect an axial movement of the spool relative to the housing.
Abstract:
A template has a contour which is to be copied, and a tracing device is movable relative to the template for tracing the contour thereof. The tracing device has a contact member which contacts the template and moves along the contour of the same, and this contact member has two or more contact faces of different diameters which can individually engage the template contour.
Abstract:
A plurality of valve units, each including a plurality of main valves connected in series in an idling conduit connecting the outlet of a control pump with a discharge space, is used for supplying hydraulic consumer motors with pressure fluid. Each main valve has an idling position for connecting the outlet of the pump with the discharge space through the idling conduit, and two operative positions for supplying and discharging fluid from the respective consumer motor, and for closing the idling circuit. Each main valve includes hydraulic operating means for shifting the main valve between idling and operative positions. A plurality of control valves supplies fluids to and discharge fluids from the hydraulic operating means, and a pressure control unit connects the idling conduit with the control valves. the pressure control unit includes a pressure reducing valve, a pressure fluid accumulator, a check valve between the accumulator and the pressure reducing valve so that a selected pressure is maintained in the hydraulic operating means when the respective main valve is in one of the operating positions. Preferably, a pressure limiting valve is arranged downstream of the pressure reducing valve, and has a higher pressure than the same. A pressurizing valve is provided between the idling conduit and the discharge space for maintaining a pressure in the idling conduit by which the operation of the operating means is started.
Abstract:
The novel valve can be used immersed in a liquid or it can be interposed in a conduit. It has a valve mechanism surrounded by a valve housing composed of an inner housing section and an outer housing section which surrounds the inner housing section. The inner housing section is used by itself in conjunction with the valve mechanism when the valve is installed immersed in a liquid, and when the valve is to be used interposed in a conduit both housing sections are employed.
Abstract:
An adjustable main pump whose output volume is controlled by a servomotor operated by an auxilliary pump controlled by control valves, is provided with pressure regulating cylinder and piston means receiving fluid from the auxilliary pump and supplying fluid to the servomotor through the control valves. A pressure responsive piston is controlled by high pressure fluid from the outlet of the adjustable main pump, and acts on the regulating piston, forming a variable throttle therewith for controlling the flow from the regulating cylinder to a low pressure discharge conduit, or to the servomotor, depending on the pressure exerted by the pressure responsive piston on the regulating piston, so that the product of pump pressure and pumped volume, representing the power output of the main pump, remains constant during regulating movement of the pressure responsive piston.
Abstract:
A fluid flow regulating valve wherein the housing receives a reciprocable spool and has a chamber which can receive pressurized fluid from a pump by way of a pilot valve to thereby move the spool from a neutral position to an intermediate position and thereupon to one of several operative positions. The fluid pressure in the chamber acts against one end face of a piston which is mounted in the body of the pilot valve and can be displaced by a control spring which can be deformed by a manually operated handle. A relatively minor deformation of the control spring suffices to move the spool to the intermediate position so that the spring can undergo a much larger additional deformation in order to move the spool to a selected operative position. A regulating spring in the housing of the regulating valve does not oppose the movement of the spool to intermediate position but the regulating spring offers a substantial resistance to movement of the spool to an operative position. This enables the operator to sense that the control spring offers a greatly increased resistance to further deformation by the handle.
Abstract:
A plurality of radially oriented pistons are each surrounded by a cylinder sleeve so as to be free to slide within the same. Each of the cylinder sleeves has a radially outer end which engages and surrounds a portion of a part-spherical surface of a stationary member. Inlet and outlet valves are provided in the stationary member on the respective portions of the partspherical surface which are surrounded by the radially outer ends of the cylinder sleeves.
Abstract:
A valve body has a valve chamber provided with a first and an opposite second port, and with a third port intermediate the first and the second ports. A first and a second valve seat are provided at the first and second port, respectively, and a third valve seat is provided intermediate the first and third ports. A valve member is movable in the valve chamber between a position in which it engages the first valve seat and disengages both the second and third valve seats, and another position in which it engages both the second and third valve seats and is disengaged from the first valve seat.
Abstract:
The rotor of a vane pump or hydraulic motor, has vane slots in which the inner ends of vanes form bottom chambers, while the outer ends project from the rotor and form intervane space with the inner surface of a surrounding cam ring. Two throttles are mounted in the rotor on opposite sides of each vane slot and have inner ends communicating with the respective bottom chamber and outer ends communicating with two adjacent intervane chambers. When a vane passes through a flow reversing zone, different pressures prevail in the respective pair of leading and trailing intervane spaces so that fluid flows through the respective throttles and bottom chamber. In this manner, an intermediate gradually changing pressure acts in the respective bottom chamber to urge the vane outward to engage the cam ring.