Abstract:
A vehicle braking system comprises two independent braking circuits. One of the circuits incorporates a valve controlled in dependence of wheel slip to reduce the pressure in the circuit so as to prevent wheel lock. The other circuit incorporates a valve controlled in dependence on the pressure in the first circuit downstream of the valve therein.
Abstract:
A device for preventing the lateral movement of the side windows of a motor vehicle. A sensing and transmitting device is mounted on the side rail of the door and is actuated by the closing of the door. The sensing and transmitting device is connected to a receiver by a fluid circuit, the fluid being a liquid under pressure. The fluid transmitted by the sensing and transmitting device causes the receiver to act on a latching member through a push-rod to move the latching member into position on the opposite side of the window from the sealing member thereby providing an abutment preventing the lateral movement of the window.
Abstract:
A steering column gear-change linkage is capable of accommodating adjustments in two perpendicular directions of a steering column which is telescopic. A support arrangement movable with respect to a fixed support, such as an automobile scuttle incorporates slides having slots extending in said two perpendicular directions. Movement in a vertical plane about a pivot axis is accommodated at a position remote from the steering column head by a slide cooperating with splines on a control tube, angular movement about the longitudinal axis of which is effected by a control lever. The slide is rigid with a lever connected by a linkage with the gearbox. Movement of the control lever axially of the control tube serves to control the gearbox selector rods through a rod coaxial with the control tube and a bowden cable.
Abstract:
The disc brake comprises a disc fast to a brake shaft, a fixed brake frame arranged straddling a portion only of the periphery of the disc and two friction element supports held one at each side of the disc on said frame by rigid and removable fixing structure. These two supports can slide on guide surfaces of this frame in a direction substantially parallel to the shaft. Control structure displace, with respect to the frame, each movable friction element support in the direction which tends to grip the disc between the two friction elements. An elastic device is arranged to exert on one at least of the friction element supports a pressure designed to prevent this support from vibrating. The anti-vibration elastic device is also arranged to immobilise, with respect to the frame, the rigid and removable fixing structure, the latter structure being positively prevented from moving by the elastic device in a direction substantially perpendicular to the pressure exerted by the latter device.
Abstract:
A device for controlling the braking of at least one wheel of a vehicle travelling along the ground comprises apparatus for comparing the speed of the said one wheel with the speed of the fastest wheel of the vehicle. When the ratio of these speeds falls below a predetermined value the pressure in the braking circuit is reduced whereby to reduce the braking effect. The predetermined value is reduced as the speed of the vehicle is reduced to prevent reduction in the braking effect, for example when the vehicle is travelling around a relatively tight curve at a relatively low speed without any wheel slip.
Abstract:
THIS MECHANISM FOR CONTROLLING FROM A SINGLE LEVER A PLURALITY OF SUCCESSIVE AND INDEPENDENT RECIPROCATING MOVEMENTS FOR PERFORMING DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS COMPRISES ESSENTIALLY A CONTROL LEVER FULCRUMED ABOUT A PIVOT PIN CARRIED BY A SUPPORTING PLATE, A DRIVING PIN CARRIED BY SAID CONTROL LEVER AND ADAPTED TO DROP INTO NOTCHES CONSTITUTING RADIAL ABUTMENT ELEMENTS WHICH ARE PROVIDED AT THE FREE END OF EACH ONE OF A PAIR OF QUANDRANTS FULCRUMED ON PIVOT PINS DISPOSED ON EITHER SIDE OF THE PIVOT PIN OF SAID CONTROL LEVER, AND TO ESCAPE FROM SAID NOTCHES AT THE END OF AN ANGULAR MOVEMENT OF EACH ONE OF SAID QUANDRANTS, THE AMPLITUDE OF SAID ANGULAR MOVEMNTS BEING ADJUSTABLE BY ADEQUATE STOP MEANS.
Abstract:
The vehicle comprises a chassis adapted to connect the front axle to the rear axle and a body connected resiliently to the chassis. The engine of the vehicle is fixed on the chassis by linking means opposing any substantial deflection between the engine and the chassis in longitudinal and transverse directions of the vehicle. The engine thus contributes to the rigidity of the chassis. The chassis may comprise two longitudinal members; the engine is fixed between two of the ends of these longitudinal members so as to serve as a cross-member for the chassis.
Abstract:
A pulse repetition rate meter has a time base for generating a fixed plurality of auxiliary pulses in response to each pulse received of a train of pulses whose repetition rate is to be measured. A clock periodically provides a gating signal having a predetermined duration greater than the period between two successively occuring pulses in the train of pulses to be measured. A gated counter under the control of the gating signal counts all the auxiliary pulses from the time base that occur during the period of the gating signal. The count thus registered is a function of the pulse repetition rate.
Abstract:
A steam generator comprises an exhaust pipe connected to receive exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine. A duct, containing water to be heated, is located within the exhaust pipe in heat exchange relationship with the exhaust gases. The exhaust pipe and the duct are each formed from two half-shells having flanges along each edge portion. The half-shells of the exhaust pipe and the duct are connected at common positions.
Abstract:
An anti-locking braking system for a wheel of a motor vehicle in which a first valve is actuated by a sensing device when the wheel is tending to lock and blocks the supply of fluid under pressure to the brake cylinder and allows the pressure fluid from the cylinder to exhaust via a path including an accumulator whose volume can be increased by the pressure of the exhausting fluid overcoming spring pressure. Upon the volume of the accumulator exceeding a predetermined value a second valve operates to reduce the rate at which the pressure of the exhausting fluid falls. Thus the pressure drop in the cylinder is at first relatively large and subsequently more slow which reduces the chance of jerking of the vehicle.