Electric reciprocating drive with motion conversion

• US 3,204,133 A
• Filed: 01/29/1963
• Issued: 08/31/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Oswald Tschudin
• Original Assignee: Oswald Tschudin
• Inventors: OSWALD TSCHUDIN
• Application Number:
  US04/254,673
• Time in Patent Office: 945 Days
• US Class Current: 310/22
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 31/00 Other gearings with freewheeling members or other intermittently driving members F16H21/00, F16H23/00, F16H25/00 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G04B 11/04 Pawl constructions therefor, e.g. pawl secured to an oscillating member actuating a ratchet
• CPC Class Codes: G04C 3/04 wherein movement is regulated by a balance construction thereof G04B17/063
• CPC Class Codes: G04C 3/08 wherein movement is regulated by a mechanical oscillator other than a pendulum or balance, e.g. by a tuning fork , e.g. electrostatically
• CPC Class Codes: G04C 3/101 constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: G04C 3/125 driven by magneto-strictive means
• CPC Class Codes: G06M 1/042 with click devices electromagnetic driving means G06M1/102
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 7/065 Electromechanical oscillators; Vibrating magnetic drives
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/1523 Radial cam
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/1581 Multiple acting

Claims

1. A MECHANICAL COVECTER, FOR CONVERTING OSCILLATORY OR RECIPROCATORY MOTION INTO A CONTINUOUSLY UNIDIRECTIONAL MOTION, SAID MECHANICAL COVERTER COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A ROTABLY MOUNTED RATCHET WHEEL;

A PAIR OF PAWLS OPERATIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH SAID WHEEL AND COMPRISING THE ONLY ELEMENTS OPERABLE ON SAID WHEEL;

AND OSCILLATORY MEANS CONJOINTLY OPERATING SAID PAWLS IN UNISON WITH EACH OTHER BUT IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS RELATIVE TO THE TEETH OF SAID WHEEL;

THE AMPLITUDE MOVEMENT A OF EACH PAWL RELATIVE TO THE TEETH OF SAID WHEEL, WITH A TOOTH SPACING Z AND A DISTANCE B BETWEEN THE TWO PAWLS IN THE REST POSITION, HAVING A VALUE SUCH THAT

6. A MECHANICAL CONVETYRT, AS CLAIMED IN CLAIM 1, IN WHICH SAID OSCILLATORY MEANS COMPRISES A PAIR OF MAGNETOSTRICTIVE OSCILLATORY ELEMENTS;

EACH OF SAID PAWLS BEING MOUNTED UPONM A RESPECTIVE ONE OF SAID OSCILLATORY MAGNETOSTRICTIVE ELEMENTS;

A PAIR OF EXCITER WINDINGS, EACH WOUND ON A RESPECTIVE MAGNETOSTRICTIVE OSCILLATORY ELEMENT;

AND A SOURCE OF A.C. POTENTIAL COMMONLY CONNECTED TO BOTH OF SAID EXCITER WINDINGS.