US751577A - Cam or eccentric - Google Patents

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PATENTED FEB. 9, 1904.

E. VONDERHEYDBN.

CAM 0R EGGENTRIC.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 27, 1903,

H0 MODEL.

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No. 751,577. Patented February 9, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

ERNEST VONDERHEYDEN, OF PATERSON, NE'W JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE GRAEF HAT-BAND MFG. CO., A CORPORATION OF NEIV JERSEY.

AM 0R ECOENTRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 7 51,577 dated February 9, 1904.

Application filed February 27, 1903. Serial No. 1&5366. (No model.)

T0 all 1117mm it y BOW/67%: volve it within the eccentric-strap. The ec- Be it known that LERNEST VONDERHEYDEN, centric-strap shown consistsof the separable a citizen of the United Stat-es of America, reparts 3 and 4:, one part of which is provided siding at Paterson, in the county of Passaic with the lugs 5, in which is suitably secured a 5 5 and State of New Jersey,have invented certain connecting-rod 6, adapted to be connected by new and useful Improvements in Cams or Ecknuckle or universal joint or in any other ccntrics, of which the following is a specificapracticable manner to any mechanism or part tion, reference being had therein to the acto which motion is to be transmitted, accordcompanying drawings. ing to the exigencies of the case.

I 0 My invention relates to improvements in By the adjustment of my cam upon the shaft cams, and by cams I mean and wish to init is obvious that the transmitting of motion clude devices for converting a regular rotary may be controlled and regulated to meet the motion into an irregular, fast and slow, intervaried requirements of mechanical operations mittent rotary or reciprocating motion. in the arts and industries. 60

I 5 The object of my invention is to make such The opening in my cam may be made devices adjustable,so that the conversion of the straight, longitudinal, angular, or curved for rotary motion may be regulated and varied in thepur poses of adjustment without departing a simple and effectual manner to suit the emerfrom the scope or spirit of my invention. gencies or requirements of the case. My improvement may be embodied in cams 5 A further object of my invention is to oband eccentrics of any shape or.configuration viate the necessity of changing cams or eccenas, for instance, the well-known heart-shaped trics, which is often required in textile induscam shown in Fig. 3. tries. In the manufacture of textile goods my in- The usefulness and scope of my invention vention is particularly and especially useful 7 is not, however, limited to the said industries, where it is necessary to impart a quicklyas it is obviously applicable to all mechanisms changing risingand-falling motion, or to imwhere the conversion of a rotary to another part a slow thrust and quick return, a quick motion or the reverse is desired. thrust and a slow return, or wherever an ir- I attain these objects by the device illusregular speed or motion or a rapid recipro- 75 3 trated in the accompanying drawings, in eating motion is required.

which WVith this description of my invention,what

Figure 1 is a front view showing my im- I claim, and desire to'secure by Letters Patproved cam; Fig. 2, a top plan view of the ent, is same, and Fig. 3 a front and side view of a The combination with the eccentric 1, hav- 3O 3 5 heart-shaped cam embodying my improveing a slot 2, and the eccentric-shaft 7, of the ments. detachable two-part strap 3 and 4:, the part 4:

My invention consists of a cam provided having lugs 5 provided with threaded openwith an opening in which the cam-shaft may ings, and the connecting-rod 6, constructed be secured at any desired point by any suitsubstantially as, and for the purposes, speci- 8 5 4 able contrivance to transmit the motion defied.

sired. In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in In Fig. 1 of the drawings an eccentric cam presence of two witnesses. 1 is shown secured to an eccentric-shaft? by ERNEST VONDERHEYDEN. means consisting of a washer and nut 9, the Witnesses: shaft being shaped square, as at 8, to pass JOHN F. KERR,

through the opening 2 in the eccentric to re- MINNIE L. DILL.

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