Indexing mechanism

• US 3,186,246 A
• Filed: 02/11/1963
• Issued: 06/01/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Virgil J. Slinker
• Original Assignee: Virgil J. Slinker
• Inventors: Slinker, Virgil J.
• Application Number:
  US04/257,381
• Time in Patent Office: 841 Days
• US Class Current: 74/128
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 16/026 by converting a reciprocating or oscillating movement into a rotary indexing movement
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 71/00 Mechanisms for bringing members to rest in a predetermined position combined with or controlling clutches F16D43/26; means for initiating operation of brakes at a predetermined position F16D65/14; means for securing members after operation F16B1/02
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/1529 Slide actuator
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/1574 Cooperating holding pawl
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/1584 Gripper mountings, slide

Claims

1. IN AN INDEXING MECHANISM, A ROTATABLY MOUNTED INDEXING WHEEL MEMBER HAVING ITS OUTER PERIPHERY FORMED WITH A PLURALITY OF CIRCUMFERENTIALLY ARRANGED TEETH EACH HAVING A SURFACE EXTENDING GENERALLY TANGENTIALLY OF A CIRCLE HAVING A CENTER COINCIDENT WITH THE CENTER OF THE WHEEL MEMBER AND A SURFACE EXTENDING GENERALLY OUTWARDLY OF THE CENTER OF THE WHEEL MEMBER, A PLUNGER MEMBER MOUNTED FOR MOVEMENT BETWEEN A WITHDRAWN POSITION AND AN EXTENDED POSITION IN A DIRECTION GENERALLY TANGENTIAL TO SAID CIRCLE, SAID PLUNGER MEMBER ABUTTING THE TANGENTIAL SURFACE OF ONE OF SAID TEETH AND THE ADJACENT OUTWARDLY EXTENDING SURFACE OF ONE OF SAID TEETH WHEN SAID PLUNGER IS IN ITS EXTENDED POSITION TO THEREBY OCK THE WHEEL MEMBER AGAINST ROTARY MOVEMENT WHEN