Abstract:
The invention relates to a device (1) for the horizontal re-centering of a coupling shaft, particularly a central buffer coupling of a track-guided vehicle, wherein the device (1) comprises a first rotating body (3) and a second rotating body (4) which is rotatable relative to the first rotating body (3), wherein the device (1) is designed to produce the force necessary to generate a restoring torque acting on the coupling shaft by the rotating of the two rotating bodies (3, 4) relative to each other.
Abstract:
A self-retracting lifeline including a housing, a drum mounted for rotation in the housing, a lifeline wrapped around the drum and extending from the housing, and a rotary energy absorber unit including at least one mount adapted for selective rotation in the housing, and an energy absorber adapted to absorb energy in response to the mount rotating relative to the housing.
Abstract:
A torque overload clutch for an electrical power tool, such as a percussion hammer drill, is provided. The clutch is accommodated in a cavity in a gear cog. Spring washers are used to urge ball bearings into indentations formed in the base of the cavity. The ball bearings are accommodated in cavities formed in a drive plate which engages with the spindle drive of the power tool. The spring washers are held in position by a circlip or a threaded plate. The threaded plate arrangement provides means for compressing the spring washers with a consistent force across a manufactured batch. A method of manufacturing the clutch is also disclosed.
Abstract:
An electric driving device which rotates a visor with respect to a stay, and includes a visor side ring having an inclined surface and a stay side ring having an inclined surface. When the visor is rotated from a using position to a housing position, the inclined surfaces ride on each other to securely form a predetermined gap between the stay and the visor. Meanwhile, when the visor is rotated from the housing position to the using position, the inclined surfaces slide down each other so that the gap between the stay and the visor approaches zero.
Abstract:
A torque limiting clutch of the kind specified provided with at least one expedient, independent of said connection means, for movement of the torque transmitting member between said operative and inoperative positions.
Abstract:
Hollow shaft reduction gear with overload protecting device facilitating adjusting the torque of the overload protecting device and repairing the device. A drive plate (8) is axially slidably mounted on one end portion of a hollow output shaft (2) projecting outside from a gear case (1). The drive plate is restrained from rotation relative to the hollow output shaft (2). A driven plate (11) is fixedly mounted on one end portion of a driven shaft (7) projecting from the extremity of the end portion of the hollow output shaft (2) so as to confront the drive plate (8). An interlocking recess (13) and a holding recess (14) are formed in the confronting surfaces of the drive plate (8) and the driven plate (11) respectively, and a ball 15 is held between the recesses (13, 14). The drive plate (8) is biased toward the driven plate (11) by a spring (16). When an excessive load torque acts on the driven shaft (7), the ball (15) moves out of the interlocking recess (13) and the driven plate (11) slips relative to the drive plate (8). The biasing force of the spring (16) is adjusted by a spring-pressure adjusting nut (18).
Abstract:
A vandal-resistant torque sensitive release mechanism for coupling an actuating handle to a lock mechanism. The torque sensitive release mechanism: is in the form of a slip-clutch, which utilizes spherical ball connectors in cooperating detents; is connected at one end to the operating handle via threaded engagement; and permits an adjustment of the disengagement force. A conventional type connection is provided at the other end of the slip clutch to allow a mutiplicty of different lock connections for coupling the handle operating to the operating lock mechanisms via the slip clutch.
Abstract:
An overload clutch, particularly for use with manually operated drilling tools, has a release or disconnect moment adjusted at a predetermined velocity as a function of the applied torque, whereby in normal, malfunction-free operation the clutch does not release or disconnect. In the case of a malfunction, for instance if the tool is blocked or seized, a rapid rise in the required torque occurs and the clutch, having inertia or damped by a volume change, releases or disconnects and immediately interrupts the torque transmission from the tool motor to the drilling member. A purely mechanical solution for the safe use of such drilling tools is afforded by the provision of a two-part shaft with two co-axially guided shaft parts (3, 7). A drive element (2) is engaged in positively locked manner and acts on a drive side shaft part (7) by a mobile thread or a sliding link (4), so that the drive element (2) prestresses a spring (5) depending on the applied torque.
Abstract:
A motor-driven machine with variable torque setting feature, especially a screwing machine with a torque-controlled switching-off feature, has a shaft which is driven by a motor via a transmission for driving a tool, and a setting ring for presetting a torque at which the shaft is to be disconnected from the transmission and/or the motor will be switched off. In order to enable approximately identical torque curves to be achieved for hard and for soft screwing applications, a clutch with a variable tripping torque is provided whose tripping torque can be adjusted via an indexing ring, which latter can be adjusted together with the setting ring.
Abstract:
A torque limiter arrangement is used for a rotating device like a door mirror. The arrangement controls relative rotation between a fixed element and a rotational element which are drivingly connected by a drive unit. That is, a first clutch is released when a relative torque not less than a fixed first torque is effected between the fixed element and the rotational element. A second clutch is released when a relative torque not less than a fixed second torque is applied between the fixed element and the rotational element. A first spring is operatively connected with the first clutch to determine the first torque. A second spring is operatively connected with the second clutch to determine the second torque.