Typical apparatus as shown in FIGS. 1 and 12 for indicating the relative positions in a given direction between a reference point (24,59) and a test point (29,68) spaced therefrom and movable relative thereto is useful for measurement of the magnitude and direction of static or dynamic torque in a shaft (8). Overlapping transparent reference (20,60) and test surfaces (25,61), either parallel disks (60,61) or coaxial cylinders (20,25) each having a relevant portion covered with a plurality of equ...

Lift car position control systems are described which use an elongate code bearing member which runs up and down the lift shaft. The member is preferably fixed though it may move with the lift car and cooperates with a moving or fixed detector respectively. The output of the detector is conveniently fed to a microprocessor which in dependence upon its programming and data concerning the lift and the building in which it is installed emits control signals to control the lift motor. The system is ...

A jig is provided for storing setting data of apparatus having a plurality of adjacent slidable setting members. The positions of the members relative to the frame and to each other determines the setting data of the apparatus. The jig includes a plurality of bars mounted on a frame for independent sliding movement relative thereto, and a set screw for releasably holding the bars in desired positions. Each bar has an end face arranged to be selectively contacted by an aligned setting member.

A device is provided for locating the center position of an object directly, without the need of measurement or mental computation. The device comprises a generally flat elongated frame having a center point marker and distance scales. Two pins are journaled in the frame, and a cord is disposed around the pins to form a taut, endless pulley. Alternately, the pins can be eliminated and the frame slotted to receive the cord. Two end point markers are attached to the cord, one on each run of the pu...

A bed with adjustable positions comprises head, foot and central units. The head and foot units include respectively an upper and lower structure and a linear actuator for elevating or lowering the upper structure with respect to the lower structure. Two opposite upper structures can be elevated simultaneously or separately. The central unit is provided with a central platen to which a pair of side platens is hinged. A rotation subassembly is located in head and foot units respectively and is in...

In order to save in a storage the storage elements for the redundancy bits which are required when using an error correction code, the following method is employed. Apart from the storage elements for the data bits and the appertaining parity bit, only one additional storage element is provided per storage location. For error detection, a word to be stored is read immediately after having been stored. If an error is detected, the word to be stored is inverted, marked as an inverted word in the a...

There is disclosed herein a method of digitizing two or three dimensional mechanisms in varied positions. If the object to be encoded is a fixed model, then such model in its fixed position is encoded. If the object is a movable mechanism, then the mechanism can be encoded in several positions whereby there can be provided a set of the mechanism's motions. The method includes the steps of providing a plurality of coordinates pickup points on the object or mechanism to be encoded. These points ar...

The invention relates to a path and/or position measuring device (1) comprising a magnet (2) and a sensor (3) detecting the magnetic field intensity. The magnet (2) and/or the sensor (3) co-operate with a movable element (4), it being possible for a relative movement between the sensor (3) and the magnet (2) to be brought about by means of the movable element (4). Furthermore, the magnet (2) is formed in such a way that the magnetic field intensity varies along an axis (5) of the magnet (2) and ...

A knife having angularly adjustable cutting positions is provided, comprising a blade having a base portion, the base portion having an outer edge including an engagement portion including a positioning mechanism for positioning the blade in multiple angular cutting positions with reference to a handle; a handle including a biased locking member for selectively engaging the positioning mechanism and fixing the blade in each of the angular cutting positions, the handle having a blade end; a sprin...

A method for transfer of incoming calls received by an attendant comprising the steps of obtaining the caller identification of the incoming call, initiating a search on a database using the caller identification, retrieving a list of previous call transfer destinations from the database corresponding to the caller identification, displaying the list on an attendant console contemporaneous with the incoming call, and selecting a desired transfer destination from the list on the console thereby t...