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4648492 4648847

MECHANISM TO ENGAGE PART ADJUSTING MECHANISM FOR

TIME DRIVE SYSTEM IN A VARIABLE PITCH WATERCRAFT
MOVING VEHICLE PROPELLERS

Thomas S Moore assigned to Ford Motor Com- Peter Mueller, Zswitzerlana

pany
The transfer case of a vehicle that can be driven
in two-wheel drive or four-wheel drive includes a
range speed transmission driveably connected to
the output of a multiple speed ratio transmission
and adapted to drive the transfer case output
shaft. A drive sprocket journalled on the output
case is driveably connected by a chain belt to a
driven sprocket that is connected to the front
driveshaft. The front axle has a differential that
transmits power from the front driveshaft to left
and right axleshafts when four-wheel drive is
selected. Automatic locking hubs driveably con-
nect the front axleshafts to the front wheel as-
semblies and are adapted to automatically
disengage when the front wheels rotate opposite
the direction that produced engagement of the
locking hubs. The drive sprocket is accelerated
from rest to the speed of the output shaft of the
transfer case through operation of a magnetic
clutch or hydraulic coupling. A hub member
engaged with the driven sprocket is moved to a
position of potential engagement with the spline
teeth on the output shaft when four-wheel drive
operation is selected. The splines remain dis-
engaged, however, until the speed of the drive
sprocket reaches approximately that of the out-
put shaft; then the splines engage and the
sprocket is driven from the output shaft.
A mechanical linkage for adjusting propeller
blades includes a two-armed lever arranged on
the downstream side of the hub of a variable
pitch propeller driven by a driving engine by
means of a drive shaft. The push rod of a linear
motor connected to an energy source moves one
arm of said adjusting lever. The other arm of the
adjusting lever is articulated to a non-rotatable
adjusting sleeve which is coupled via a thrust
bearing to a rotary intermediate adjusting mem-
ber. Adjusting rods are fixed to the intermediate
adjusting member and are guided in the hub and
accomplish the adjustment of the propeller
blades.
4651784
PLAIN WEAVE SHEDDING
MECHANISM
Zdene Rambousek, Jir Zlatohlavek, Liberec,
Czechoslovakia assigned to ELITEX koncern
textilniho
Plain weave shedding mechanism. Heald shafts
of the mechanism are connected by connecting
links to arms of adjacent balance levers in such