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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7337643 | Rolling mill drive with a coupling and decoupling device A rolling mill drive with at least one drive spindle arranged between a drive unit and a driven roll and terminating in a spindle head connected detachably to the neck of the roll. A coupling and decoupling device is arranged between the neck of the roll and the spi... | 03/04/2008 |
| 6991546 | Universal joint shaft A universal joint shaft for driving a roll of a rolling mill includes a connecting shaft, a first universal joint that is attached to a first end of the connecting shaft, a second universal joint that is attached to a second end of the connecting shaft, a coupling s... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6862958 | Flexible drive shaft A flexible drive shaft extension for hand tools comprises serially nested, socket-ended Shaft components of polygonal cross-section which have freedom of universal motion from axial alignment limited to about five degrees of arc and which are forcibly retained in co... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6769386 | Adjusting element for a rotary piston The invention concerns a rotary piston adjuster for adjusting the angular position of the camshaft of an internal combustion engine, said adjuster comprising an outer rotor having at least one hydraulic chamber, and an inner rotor comprising at least one pivoting va... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6672967 | Axial displacement universal joint A connection between two shafts, the shafts can be faced in different directions. Each shaft having a first fork at one end for hingedly joining the respective shaft to a second fork. The second forks are mechanically joined to each other by an axial disp... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6431340 | Soft stop mechanism and method This invention offers advantages over the prior art by providing a simple, inexpensive mechanism and method for reducing the shock load on the drive of a rotary or linear actuator when the motion of the actuator output shaft is slowed, even to the point o... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6382909 | Rotary turning apparatus A machine with a rotary turning apparatus in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention includes a housing with at least one end wall, at least one bearing assembly, a shaft, a passage, a pair of shoulders, an engagement device, and a biasing... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6287208 | Variable length drive shaft A variable length drive shaft for a rolling mill roll including: a driven first end including a universal joint connecting with an end of a first splined shaft having an axial bore and counter bore and a driving second end including a universal joint conn... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6283869 | Toothed coupling The invention relates to a toothed coupling, especially a double toothed coupling, for rail vehicles, essentially consisting of a coupling housing (2) and at least one coupling component (3, 4) fitted inside the coupling housing (2), the coupling componen... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6229233 | Motor having worm gear mechanism A motor includes a motor section, a one-way clutch and an output section. The motor section includes an armature and armature shaft, and the output section includes a worm mechanism having a worm shaft disposed coaxially with the armature shaft. The one-w... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6067869 | Actuating assembly for motor-vehicle door latch A motor-vehicle door has a latch assembly having a door latch having a release lever displaceable to unlatch the door and a horizontally displaceable outside door handle. A transmission member rotatable about an axis is connected to the handle such that h... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6058791 | Accessory mechanical drive for a gas turbine engine An accessory gear drive for gas turbine engine utilizes a radially extending, floating tower shaft which is unrestrained against radial movement, but includes a resilient biasing means for normally holding the tower shaft in power driving interengagement ... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5813829 | Disengageable manual drive for rotating a turbomachine rotor Manual rotation of a turbomachine rotor in order to bring the blades of the rotor one by one in front of an endoscope to check the blades is effected by a shaft which is rotatably connected to the rotor and which may be, for example, a shaft of the auxili... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5632184 | Safety pedal for motor vehicles A vehicle safety pedal apparatus includes a foot engaging portion, a linkage attachment for attaching the pedal apparatus to a vehicle, a pedal linkage coupled between the linkage attachment and the foot engaging portion including first and second sub-lin... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5490020 | High torsional stiffness low axial deflection stiffness drive shaft system A high torsional stiffness low axial deflection stiffness flexible drive shaft apparatus is provided for driving a magnetic tape cassette and includes a drive shaft having opposite ends, a device for engaging the magnetic tape cassette and a pair of flexi... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5427192 | Sliding pedestal shaft for PTO driven implements An implement is coupled for being driven and towed by a tractor. A pedestal shaft is slidably mounted to the tongue of the implement and is coupled to the tractor PTO by a telescopic shaft which during turning and certain rolling and or pitching condition... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5263899 | Cylindrical telescopic kelly-bar apparatus A kelly-bar apparatus includes, for example, an inner kelly-bar, a second kelly-bar and an outer kelly-bar. These kelly-bars are relatively telescopically operable and torque is transmitted from outside to inside. When the second and outer kelly-bar are i... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5224898 | Cushion connector A cushion connector (10) used for above ground drilling has pin (11) and box (12) components at opposite ends. A housing (13) extends axially between the pin and box components. A drive spline (22) is operably connected to one of the components and extend... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5199325 | Electronic shift or clutch actuator for a vehicle transmission The present invention is directed to an electronic actuator for use in a vehicle transmission such as a four wheel drive transfer case. In one preferred embodiment, the transfer case includes two separate electronic actuators, a range shift actuator which... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5186573 | Coupling for connecting shafts A first shaft which is, for example, the output shaft of a clutch, is coupled to a second shaft which, for example, is the input shaft of a transmission, by a splined coupling. The splined coupling includes a first sleeve having internal splines for splin... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5098343 | Retractable shaft coupling Difficulty in disconnecting two coupled shafts (38, 40) is avoided through the use of a retractable shaft coupler which includes a sleeve (22) which can engage respective shafts (38, 40) at each of its ends and having at least one spring (28) coaxially po... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5083755 | Face shock absorber for extracting core-collecting pipes Face shock absorber for extracting core-collecting pipes used for the drilling of solid mineral resources, which is incorporated in the drilling unit above the rock-breaking tool. It comprises a housing, the opposite ends of which are connected to a top a... | 01/28/1992 |
| 5080634 | Drive shaft A drive shaft adapted for use in driving rolls of rolling mills and the like. It is assembled from a first tubular shaft connected on one end to a first joint member and a second tubular shaft connected on one end to a second joint member, the opposite en... | 01/14/1992 |
| 4913681 | Shock absorbing rotary gear coupling A gear coupling adapted to be capable of absorbing torsional shock loads between a power driven shaft 1 and a power drive shaft 2 comprises a drive member 3 and driven member 4 which extend from two sides into, and engage with, hollow intermediate member ... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4854808 | Multi-articulated industrial robot with several degrees of freedom of movement An industrial robot comprising a column housing a first group of coaxial hollow shafts rotatably coupled to a first articulated joint positioned at about 60° to the first group of hollow shafts. A second group of coaxial hollow shafts receives the rotati... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4781359 | Sub assembly for a swivel A sub assembly for connecting a power swivel to a drill string. The assembly includes a telescopic sub having a preloaded spring. The telescopic sub has three discrete positions enabling it to travel in either direction from a normal position. This capabi... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4692127 | Device for a force transmitting connection between two shafts An intermediate shaft is provided which achieves a sliding connection between an outer part (17) and an inner part (18) inserted into the outer part. Two Cardan joints are formed of axial bores (22, 31). The joint heads (48, 49) are inserted into the axia... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4560300 | Disengageable coupling mechanism for a drive shaft assembly A drive shaft assembly for providing a drive connection between the power take-off shaft of a tractor and an agricultural implement is formed in two drive shaft parts with one of the parts which is attached to the tractor joint being formed with a couplin... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4476950 | Drive assembly for vehicle wheel A drive assembly for the wheel of a motor vehicle having an independent wheel suspension wherein the wheel is connected to a drive source by means of a pair of universal joints connected between the drive source and the wheel transmitting torque therebetw... | 10/16/1984 |
| 4427398 | Device for coupling and uncoupling two parts movable relative to each other using a length-variable guide rod A device for coupling and uncoupling two parts which are movable relative to each other, particularly parts of the drives of vehicles, for instance for high-speed power vehicles, by means of a length-variable guide rod. On the tubular guide rod segment th... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4384861 | Universal joint shaft, particularly for a steering column of motor vehicles The universal joint shaft, particularly for a steering column of a motor vehicle, includes a tubular outer shaft, a tubular inner shaft slidably mounted in the outer shaft for axial telescoping movement relative to the outer shaft and engageable for rotat... | 05/24/1983 |
| 4344305 | Torque shaft coupling A coupling for two co-axial torque transmitting shafts having the features of a splined torque transmitting joint (5, 6), a screwed joint (9, 10) for effecting axial engagement of the splined joint, interference members (15, 16) axially movable to a locke... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4338797 | Trishaft telescoping assembly for torque transmission A torque transmitting assembly including three telescopically arranged shafts is formed with an interlocking ball device which releasably axially locks the shaft members together. The ball device may include one or more balls which are movable radially of... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4270367 | Spring loaded adjustable coupling A spring loaded, axially slidable, adjustable coupling adapted at one end to fit over a drive means shaft, such as a motor, and adapted at the other end to fit over a driven shaft, such as a pump shaft, wherein this end can receive shafts of varying diame... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4236388 | Separable three-section telescopic drive shaft In a separable three-section telescopic drive shaft, such as used for driving an agricultural implement, the shaft consists of an inner section, and a tubular outer section with a tubular intermediate section located between them in the retracted position... | 12/02/1980 |
| 4226095 | Mechanism for maintaining contact between the driving side of torque transfering surfaces of a first rotatable member and the driven side of matching torque transfering surfaces of a second rotatable member A mechanism for maintaining contact between the driving side of spline teeth of a first rotatable member against the driven side of matching spline teeth of a second rotatable member including a coil spring carried by the rotatable second member. One end ... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4162618 | Device for rolls in high speed rolling mills and the like A driving device for rolls in high speed rolling mills and the like, designed to effect the centering of a drive shaft element and of a driven shaft element and the transmission of torque. In a hollow space defined in a shaft assembly comprising two shaft... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4139994 | Vibration isolator A vibration isolator includes telescoping tubular mandrel and barrel members between which torque is transmitted by an internally splined urethane bushing affixed to the cylindrical interior of the steel barrel and a urethane layer over the splined outer ... | 02/20/1979 |
| 4136533 | Drive apparatus for rolling rolls The coupling of a drive spindle to be fitted to a driven shaft has a fitting bore provided with liner grooves of suitable width opposed to each other diametrically of the bore and extending in parallel axially thereof. Two wedge-shaped superposed liners a... | 01/30/1979 |
| 4126018 | Apparatus for interconnecting rotary shafts The opposed ends of a plurality of aligned rotary shafts are connected together by a spindle assembly including universal joints at its opposite ends. The spindle assembly comprises a splined spindle, sleeve-shaped flanged yokes slidably mounted on the op... | 11/21/1978 |
