公开(公告)号：US3561849A

公开(公告)日：1971-02-09

申请号：US3561849D

申请日：1969-02-17

申请人： FMC CORP

发明人： CARRIGAN TRACY

IPC分类号： G02B7/182 ,  G02B5/08

CPC分类号： G02B7/182

摘要： A BACKGROUND UNIT WHICH IS POSITIONED IN FRONT OF A VEHICLE TO BE ALIGNED HAS A FRAME WITH A MIRROR BAR MOUNTED THEREON. THE MIRROR BAR HAS TWO SECTIONS, EACH SECTION HAVING A MIRROR SECURED THERETO. THE OUTER ENDS OF EACH SECTION ARE ROTATABLY MOUNTED IN A BEARING BLOCK WHICH IS SLIDABLY MOUNTED ON THE SIDE OF THE FRAME. THE INNER ENDS OF THE BAR SECTIONS, EACH OF WHICH HAVE FLANGES, ARE PIVOTALLY CONNECTED ON AN AXIS SUBSTANTIALLY PERPEN-

DICULAR TO THE BAR AND PARALLEL TO THE MIRRORS. TWO SCREWS, THREADEDLY RECEIVED IN ONE FLANGE AND ABUTTING THE OTHER FLANGE, LOCK THE TWO BAR SECTIONS INTO ONE RIGID MIRROR BAR.

公开(公告)号：US3666369A

公开(公告)日：1972-05-30

申请号：US3666369D

申请日：1970-03-18

申请人： FMC CORP

发明人： CARRIGAN TRACY

IPC分类号： G01M11/06 ,  G01J1/00

CPC分类号： G01M11/067

摘要： A HEADLIGHT TESTING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING THE DIRECTION OF THE BEAM OF LIGHT FROM EACH VEHICLE HEADLIGHT RELATIVE TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF A VEHICLE AND RELATIVE TO THE HEIGHT OF EACH LIGHT FROM A HORIZONTAL VEHICLE SUPPORTING PLANE. A TARGET SCREEN IS MOUNTED FOR VERTICAL ADJUSTMENT AND HORIZONTAL PIVOTAL ADJUSTMENT ON A CARRIAGE WHICH IS MOVABLE ON A TRACK BETWEEN A TARGET SETTING POSITION ADJACENT THE HEADLIGHTS AND A TESTING POSITION SPACED FROM THE HEADLIGHTS. A PAIR OF ROLLERS JOURNALED ABOUT AXES NORMAL TO THE TRACK SUPPORT ARE ROTATED BY THE DRIVE WHEELS OF THE VEHICLE FOR ALIGNING THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF THE VEHICLE INTO A POSITION PARALLEL WITH THE TRACK. THE SCREEN INCLUDES THREE VERTICALLY AND HORIZONTALLY ADJUSTABLE TARGETS ASSOCIATED WITH EACH HEADLIGHT GROUP OF A VEHICLE TO ACCOMODATE VEHICLES WITH A SINGLE HEADLIGHT, DOUBLE SIDE-BY-SIDE HEADLIGHTS, AND DOUBLE VERTICALLY SPACED HEADLIGHTS IN EACH GROUP. EACH TARGET HAS A POINTER WHICH IS ADJUSTED TO CONTACT THE CENTER OF THE ASSOCIATED HEADLIGHT WHEN THE TARGET IS IN ITS TARGET SETTING POSITION AND A HORIZONTAL REFERENCE BAR FOR REFERENCING THE POSITION OF THE HIGH INTENSITY LIGHT BEAM WHEN THE SCREEN IS IN THE TESTING POSITION.

公开(公告)号：US3521494A

公开(公告)日：1970-07-21

申请号：US3521494D

申请日：1968-02-23

申请人： FMC CORP

发明人： CARRIGAN TRACY

IPC分类号： G01M1/02 ,  G01M1/04 ,  G01M19/00

CPC分类号： G01M1/045 ,  G01M1/02 ,  Y10T29/53913

公开(公告)号：US3889542A

公开(公告)日：1975-06-17

申请号：US41447473

申请日：1973-11-09

申请人： FMC CORP

发明人： CARRIGAN TRACY

IPC分类号： G01M1/02 ,  B60B37/04 ,  G01M1/04 ,  G01M17/02

CPC分类号： G01M17/021 ,  G01M1/045

摘要： An apparatus for mounting a wheel and tire assembly on the drive shaft or spindle of a wheel balancer or the like in driven engagement with and concentric to the axis of the shaft. The apparatus includes a tubular adapter for receiving a double faced, stepped cone wheel centering device with a plurality of pairs of slots extending from each side past the midpoint of the device to define a plurality of evenly spaced resilient fingers on each face of the stepped cone, which fingers are bent radially outward of the adjacent portion of the cone to more effectively center the wheel by engaging the machined center hole of the wheel. The wheel is centered on and is secured to the tubular flanged adapter with the aid of the stepped cone centering device, a protective collar and a wing nut. The apparatus also includes in its combination a collet-type locking device for frictionally locking the flanged adapter in driven engagement on a smooth surfaced shaft after sliding the adapter to any desired axial position on the shaft and tightening the locking device by hand without the aid of tools. The locking device may be formed on the wing nut, or may be formed on either end of the flanged adapter.

摘要翻译： 一种用于将车轮和轮胎组件安装在轮轴平衡器等的驱动轴或主轴上的装置，其与轴的轴线驱动接合并同心。 该装置包括管状适配器，用于接收双面阶梯式锥形轮对中装置，其具有多个从每个侧面延伸穿过该装置的中点的槽，以在台阶锥体的每个面上限定多个均匀分布的弹性指状物 ，这些指状物通过与车轮的加工中心孔相接合而径向向外弯曲于锥体的相邻部分，以更有效地使轮对中心。 轮子位于中心并借助于阶梯式锥形定中心装置，保护套环和翼形螺母固定在管状凸缘适配器上。 该装置还包括一种夹头型锁定装置，用于在将适配器滑动到轴上任何期望的轴向位置并且用手紧固锁定装置之后，将带凸缘的适配器摩擦锁定在光滑的表面轴上， 工具 锁定装置可以形成在翼形螺母上，或者可以形成在带凸缘的适配器的任一端上。

公开(公告)号：US3877315A

公开(公告)日：1975-04-15

申请号：US37027073

申请日：1973-06-15

申请人： FMC CORP

发明人： CARRIGAN TRACY

IPC分类号： G01M1/12 ,  G01M1/14

CPC分类号： G01M1/12

摘要： A wheel and tire balancer and method for using the same is disclosed. The balancer includes a balancing head rotatable about the vertical axis of a horizontally oriented ball bearing assembly for determining lateral run-out of a wheel and tire assembly centered on the balancing head in a generally horizontal position. The balancer further includes a pivot bearing for allowing the balancing head with the wheel and tire assembly to be selectively supported on the pivot bearing to tilt from its normal horizontal position thereby indicating the static imbalance of the wheel and tire assembly. Imbalance compensating weights are added to the wheel rim in proportion to the linear amount of lateral run-out to approximate dynamic and static balancing of the wheel and tire assembly within tolerances more effective than static balancing alone.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种轮胎和轮胎平衡器及其使用方法。 平衡器包括平衡头，该平衡头可围绕水平定向的滚珠轴承组件的垂直轴线旋转，用于确定以大致水平位置为中心在平衡头上的轮胎和轮胎组件的横向偏离。 平衡器还包括用于允许具有轮和轮胎组件的平衡头被选择性地支撑在枢转轴承上以从其正常水平位置倾斜的枢轴轴承，从而指示车轮和轮胎组件的静态不平衡。 不平衡补偿重量与轮辋的线性量成比例地添加到车轮轮辋中，以使车轮和轮胎组件的动态和静态平衡接近公差内的动态和静态平衡比单独的静态平衡更有效。