Process and device for regulating the movement of a member by employing a fluid flow
First Claim
1. A device for regulating at any instant the speed of a mobile member moving in a stroke of determined uniform direction by employing a fluid passing under pressure through an orifice of restricted section, comprising:
- (A) an aligned assembly of two bellows filled with an incompressible fluid, sadi bellows being coaxial and joined by a common partition having located thereon said orifice of restricted section, and said bellows being compressible parallel to their common axis;
(B) said mobile member comprising a pulley coaxial to said bellows having wound thereon a cable, whereby movement of said cable rotates said pulley;
(c) cams for alternately compressing ends of said bellows opposite said partition as said pulley rotates for causing said fluid to be passed through said orifice several times in alternate directions during rotation of said pulley.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a process and device for regulating at any instant the speed of a mobile member, such as a pulley, moving in a stroke of determined uniform direction, by employing a fluid passing under pressure through an orifice of restricted section. According to the invention, said pressurized fluid is made to pass several times alternately in one direction and in the other through said orifice, during said stroke of determined uniform direction. The invention is more particularly applicable to the deployment of appendices mounted on board space vessels.
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6 Claims
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1. A device for regulating at any instant the speed of a mobile member moving in a stroke of determined uniform direction by employing a fluid passing under pressure through an orifice of restricted section, comprising:
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(A) an aligned assembly of two bellows filled with an incompressible fluid, sadi bellows being coaxial and joined by a common partition having located thereon said orifice of restricted section, and said bellows being compressible parallel to their common axis; (B) said mobile member comprising a pulley coaxial to said bellows having wound thereon a cable, whereby movement of said cable rotates said pulley; (c) cams for alternately compressing ends of said bellows opposite said partition as said pulley rotates for causing said fluid to be passed through said orifice several times in alternate directions during rotation of said pulley. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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