Abstract:
A door closer wherein a housing defines a fluid-containing space and rotatably supports a shaft which is articulately connected with a pivotable door panel. A piston in the housing divides the space into a chamber and a compartment and has a toothed rack which mates with a pinion on the shaft so that the piston moves in the housing in response to rotation of the shaft as a result of pivoting of the door panel and vice versa. One or more springs in the chamber bias the piston in a direction to pivot the door panel toward closed position. A channel in the housing establishes communication between the chamber and the compartment during an initial stage of movement of the door panel from closed position at which time the piston moves in a direction to reduce the volume of the chamber. A bypass in the piston provides a path for the flow of fluid from the chamber into the compartment during a following stage of pivoting of the door panel toward open position, and the cross-sectional area of such path increases gradually in a direction from the chamber toward the compartment. The bypass can be provided in the peripheral surface of the piston or in the peripheral surface of the body of a check valve which is installed in the piston and serves to permit the fluid to flow from the compartment into the chamber during pivoting of the door panel toward closed position.
Abstract:
A rotary damper includes a sealed cylindrical housing containing viscous oil, a driven shaft rotatably supported within the housing, and a plurality of rotors and spacers arranged alternately and disposed upon a portion of the driven shaft extending in the axial direction of the housing. The rotors are held rotatably in unison with the driven shaft. The spacers are secured to the housing so as to permit the driven shaft to be rotated relative to the spacers. The rotors and spacers are formed with respective air-purging notches communicating with gaps defined between the rotors and the spacers whereby the air can be eliminated from such gaps and the viscous oil disposed within such gaps in order to provide the damper with the desired damping efficiency.
Abstract:
A delayed action door closer that delays a portion of the closing of a door for an adjustably determined period of time after the door has been moved to its fully open position. An interdependent hydraulic speed control system utilizes a delayed action speed control regulating valve which controls the closing speed of the door in the delayed action zone only, and whose speed cannot be adjusted faster than the main closing speed, but can be adjusted to provide a desired delay time prior to the door closing under normal regulation. The placement of the interdependent hydraulic system in the checking end of the closer allows the closer to have a fully adjustable independent backcheck.
Abstract:
An attachment for a conventional, surface mounted, overhead door control incorporating electrically actuated provision for holding the door open to any desired degree, but defeatable by manual pressure or by deenergization of the electric circuitry.
Abstract:
A door check includes a cam coupled to the door and having opposite profiles against which a follower on one end of a lever is stressed by a spring, the other end of the lever actuating a damping cylinder. Particular shapes for the cam and for the orifice for escape from the cylinder are shown.
Abstract:
A snubber apparatus comprises a casing defining an inner cavity. A shaft passes through the inner cavity and rotates about its longitudinal axis. The shaft has one or two ends laterally projecting out of the casing and being connected to a moving part of a tool to dampen given motions thereof. A wiper arm is on the shaft so as to rotate therewith the shaft, with a free end in close proximity to the surface portions of the inner cavity. The free end has an arcuate contour complementarily corresponding to a circumferential surface portion. A dam extends from the circumferential surface portion into close proximity to the wiper arm, to divide the inner cavity in two chambers, with movements of the wiper arm changing the volume of the chambers. A hydraulic circuit controls a flow of fluid between chambers to oppose a force to rotation of the shaft.
Abstract:
Dämpfvorrichtung (9) zur Dämpfung einer Bewegung eines bewegbar gelagerten Möbelteiles (3) oder eines bewegbar gelagerten Möbelbeschlagbauteiles eines Möbelbeschlages, mit einem in einer Fluidkammer (21) angeordneten Kolben (22), wobei eine Dämpfwirkung durch eine Relativbewegung zwischen Fluidkammer (21) und Kolben (22) erfolgt und wobei der Kolben (22) am Ende des Dämpfungshubes relativ zur Fluidkammer (21) eine eingedrückte Endstellung einnimmt und wobei die Dämpfvorrichtung (9) zur Deaktivierung der Dämpfungswirkung eine Verriegelungsvorrichtung (15) mit einem manuell oder mit einem Werkzeug zu betätigenden Arretierelement (15a) aufweist, wobei durch das Arretierelement (15a) der Verriegelungsvorrichtung (15) die Relativstellung zwischen der Fluidkammer (21) und dem Kolben (22) in der eingedrückten Endstellung lösbar arretierbar ist.
Abstract:
An assembly to pivotally connect an external vehicle closure panel to a vehicle body includes a first hinge member that is constructed to be mounted to one of the external vehicle closure panel and the vehicle body, a second hinge member that is constructed to be mounted to the other of the external vehicle closure panel and the vehicle body, a shaft that is constructed to pivotally connect the first hinge member to the second hinge member, and a viscous rotary damper. The damper includes a cover, a rotor, and a viscous material. The shaft connects to the rotor such that rotation of the external vehicle closure panel between a closing position and an opening position causes relative motion between the rotor and the cover of the viscous damper to provide a resistance for controlling the velocity of the external vehicle closure member.