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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5718313 | Clutch mechanism A clutch mechanism for selectively setting up or interrupting the delivery of a drive force in accordance with a direction and an amount of rotation of a shaft is disclosed. The mechanism includes a clutch gear rotated by the rotation of a motor. A slide ... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5624014 | Device for actuating a clutch or a gear box or the like A device for actuating a system such as a clutch or a gearbox associated with an engine, particularly a motor vehicle engine, and comprising control element (26-31) and an actuation member (38). According to the invention, the device furthermore includes:... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5261515 | Safety disconnect for the pedal operator rod of an attaching machine A mechanical disconnect for the pedal operating rod of an attaching machine comprises a stationary trip slide having a downwardly inclined cam surface and a housing enclosing the trip slide and reciprocable thereon. The housing is connected to the clutch ... | 11/16/1993 |
| 4926990 | Clutch for franking machine Non-slipping clutch disposed between the drive and transport mechanism and between the drive and control cylinder for triggering printing in franking machines, including a shaft, a locking wheel being mounted on the shaft and engaged by the drive, interna... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4923106 | Piston driving apparatus in tag attacher An apparatus for reciprocating a piston that drives a tag pin through a hollow needle. The apparatus comprises a crank for oscillating an oscillating arm that reciprocates the piston; a cam for stopping a crank rotating motor when the oscillating arm osci... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4865305 | Paper sheet feeding apparatus A paper sheet feeding apparatus includes paper sheet feed rollers of friction type which are unidirectionally driven through a clutch mechanism provided between the paper sheet feed rollers and a platen of a printer to feed, one by one, paper sheets to th... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4842110 | Document transport and printing apparatus and associated clutch A document transport and printing apparatus which utilizes an associated clutch for use in printing and endorsing documents like checks at a printing station in the apparatus. The apparatus utilizes a single input shaft as an input member for the clutch a... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4787762 | Power transmission apparatus An apparatus for controlling the transmission of power from a motor to a number of devices at selected times utilizes a single trigger mechanism which is operated at predetermined times in an operating cycle. The trigger mechanism controls a plurality of ... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4778036 | Cam-operated mechanical machine brake An assembly is provided for intermittently applying braking force to a rotating member of a machine, and for positively effecting the release thereof, to enhance performance and efficiency. The device is purely mechanical in nature, and is particularly ad... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4716783 | Intermittent gear lock mechanism An intermittent gear wheel lock mechanism includes major engaging portions and secondary engaging portions formed on one surface of an intermittent gear wheel and spaced by a predetermined distance. When an unlock lever is inserted, and a lock member is d... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4591036 | Single revolution clutch A clutch includes an inner clutch member of a cylindrical shape fixedly mounted on a shaft for rotation therewith, a bushing mounted on the inner clutch member, and an outer clutch member mounted on the bushing and driven for rotation at a predetermined s... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4544310 | Clutch and transmission mechanism A mechanism for machining an object, such as a key blank, to a desired shape at a plurality of successive positions in an axial direction of the object, includes a holder for the object. The holder is axially movable by means of a transfer mechanism with ... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4538717 | Control apparatus for a step drive The invention relates to a step drive assembly which includes a rotatable operating unit for operating a tool or knife or the like. The assembly has a change-over clutch for selectively connecting the operating unit to a continuously running motor or a br... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4519209 | Hydraulic motor bypass apparatus Grinder-mixers include a material infeed device such as a feed table for feeding bales of hay to be ground up and incorporated into livestock feed rations. Due to varying bale density, the bale grinder sometimes lugs down when encountering a dense bale. H... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4493346 | Coupling arrangement usable in a textile machine In a coupling arrangement for a textile machine, a drive shaft can be intermittently rotated and a connecting member encircles and is connected to the drive shaft by an eccentric hoop located between them. A coupling key is displaceable between a first co... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4485541 | Fastener applying apparatus An apparatus for applying a fastener to a fabric includes a pair of levers disposed pivotably one on each side of a stationary die for interlocking a punch driver and an actuator therefor in such a manner that the former can be activated by the latter onl... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4466520 | Self-contained clutch useful for single revolution applications Rotary input power is selectively coupled to an output shaft or the like by actuation of a plunger which forces a movable pin into a coupled relation between a member attached to the input drive and an arm attached to the output. A fixed wall establishes ... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4427035 | Clutch arrangement for a heddle of a weaving machine The clutch contains a spring for pulling the arm of the control lever on the stop and an additional auxiliary spring connected with a roller. While the control lever strikes on the stop, the roller moves toward one lever arm so that in a further rotation ... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4417870 | Liquid fuel combustion apparatus A liquid fuel combustion apparatus comprises a combustion cylinder for supporting a wick to be vertically movable between a combustion position and an extinguished position, a rotating shaft connected to said wick for raising and lowering said wick, a dri... | 11/29/1983 |
| 4347919 | One revolution clutch assembly using gears A one revolution clutch assembly is provided which transmits the rotation of a normally rotating drive shaft to a driven rotating body through gears and which interrupts the rotation of the driven body when it has rotated through one revolution. The one r... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4310087 | Single revolution clutches, particularly for franking machines A single revolution clutch in a reduction gear in a franking machine is designed to avoid fraudulent operation and double cycling and for economical production by arranging a worm to drive a split worm wheel having a gap in each arcuate row of teeth respe... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4301905 | Rotation shaft machine A rotation shaft machine with a wedge coupling between a drive shaft and an eccentric device for the shaft movement, with which the wedge is mounted in a radially extending recess of an eccentric disc and in two coupling positions which lie diametrically ... | 11/24/1981 |
| 4269292 | Drive mechanism for a high speed film transport and the like A lost-motion drive mechanism is provided which is particularly, although not exclusively, adapted for use as a high speed transport for an X-ray film, or the like, in an X-ray camera. The drive mechanism includes an input shaft for coupling a drive motor... | 05/26/1981 |
| 4248417 | Sheet feed mechanism comprising one-rotation clutch and suction foot assembly Suction feet are arranged to pick up and feed a sheet from a stack and a blower is arranged to blow air against the edges of the sheets on the stack to separate the top sheet from the rest. A cam assembly driven through a novel one-rotation clutch moves a... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4230210 | Clutch for a textile machine The pawl is retracted from the intermittently rotatable input shaft via a controlled abutment and a spring biased lever-mounted or piston-mounted roller. The abutment serves to start retraction of the pawl while the spring biased roller presses against a ... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4215588 | Control device for an intermittently movable driver member A control device for driver member comprises an intermittently movable driver member, a follower member adapted to follow the driver member for displacement, retention and return displacement, a control member for controlling the starting and stoppage of ... | 08/05/1980 |
| 4110582 | Stored-energy operating device for an electric circuit breaker An operating device for an electric circuit breaker comprises a closing spring and a rotatable spring-controller mounted for rotation between first and second dead-center positions with respect to the spring. The spring is charged by transmitting rotation... | 08/29/1978 |
| 4055969 | Method and apparatus for producing terry cloth toweling on a warp knitting machine A displacing means is used to move at least one guide bar by at least one needle space in order to remove the loops on a terry cloth towel material such as knitted on a warp knitting machine. The displacing device basically comprises a transfer means for ... | 11/01/1977 |
| 4050692 | Sheet feeding machine A device for feeding sheets to another machine, said device having conveying rollers continuously rotating at the same peripheral speed as the receiving rollers of the fed machine. Gripper devices reciprocate toward and away from the conveying rollers to ... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4029184 | Pawl and ratchet clutch A self-releasing pawl and ratchet clutch is described that is particularly suitable for use as a single revolution clutch in a self-processing camera. At the end of one revolution of the clutch, the pawl is uncoupled from the ratchet wheel by a translatab... | 06/14/1977 |
| 4013152 | Mechanical clutch for cyclic machines Single revolution clutch mechanisms are conventionally employed in machines such as punch presses and the like. Such clutches are usually provided with single stroke mechanisms so that an operator must release the "RUN" buttons before a subsequent cycle c... | 03/22/1977 |
| 3994426 | Drive mechanism for computer form feeder apparatus A mechanism for driving a computer form web along a predetermined path includes a ratchet wheel having two sets of oppositely facing teeth, mounted on a support shaft for rotation. The wheel is driven in both clockwise and counter-clockwise directions. A ... | 11/30/1976 |
| 3948374 | Clutches A reproduction machine having a document scanning system has an improved recycling clutch for operating the system. The clutch has a rotatable input plate and a rotatable output plate. An annular pawl plate pivotally mounted on the input plate has a drivi... | 04/06/1976 |
