Abstract:
An elastic coupling made from moldable curable material having both magnetic permeability and desirable mechanical properties, including resilience, flexure tolerance, and large-area contact with metallic members, is disclosed. Application of the coupling in a bonded junction between lightweight fast-acting fatiguestress-susceptible members which are connected between acceleratable masses in a magnetic-solenoid-excited dataprocessing peripheral is shown.
Abstract:
A cooperative plurality of energy-dissipating means is incorporated into a high-speed mechanism so as to be sequentially activated and be operative upon a working member for timely extraction of precise quantities of excess kinetic energy and for producing long life and bounce-free fast operation of the working member. Incorporation of the invention into a high-speed printer wherein energy absorption from components of the printer is accomplished via structurally improved members is also disclosed.
Abstract:
Attachment of a relatively hard flexure member to a relatively elastic body member by a combination of mechanical anchoring and adhesive bonding is disclosed. An adhesive bond free of surface voids and affording intimate contact between an adhesive material and a thermoplastic elastic member is achieved by interfacing materials in the viscous state followed by cure to a resilient state; an attachment immune to repeated high-energy loading in tension and flexure and free of stress concentrations in the members results. Application of the attachment toward anchoring a metal spring within a plastic hammer and to a metal base member for a high-speed printer mechanism is disclosed.
Abstract:
A signal-actuating device having its major component parts molded as a single piece. The actuating device includes a single body composed of an elastomeric material which is a glycol cured isocyanate terminated polyester formulated to be virtually a true gel, character symbols bonded on the body representing key positions and Mylar circuitry strips of etched copper wires bonded to raised projections located on the underside of the body. Contact made by depressing a key gives a binary-coded output, as well as providing a signal for activating distant devices.
Abstract:
A resilient nonmetallic printer hammer made of composite material and having relatively large size and small mass is disclosed. The hammer employs a frontal insert member for printing contact and a rearward insert for energy dissipation and driving. An attached spring assists in hammer retraction and in frictional dissipation against a mating member at the rearward face.
Abstract:
A LOW-COST COIN SORTER WHICH UTILIZES AN ELASTOMERIC MATERIAL TO SORT A PILE OF COINS INTO AN ORIENTATED POSITION WHERE EACH COIN CAN BE TRANSPORTED TO A DESIGNATED LOCATION. DRIVE BELTS, SORTING CURTAINS, AND ROLLS CONSTRUCTED OF AN ELASTOMERIC MATERIAL COOPERATE TO ALIGN EACH COIN AND TRANSPORT IT OUT OF A PILE OF COINS TO A PREDETERMINED RECEPTACLE.