Measuring and testing – Brake testing – Single wheel rotating and resistance measuring means
Patent
1977-07-18
1980-01-08
Ruehl, Charles A.
Measuring and testing
Brake testing
Single wheel rotating and resistance measuring means
G01L 316
Patent
active
041821661
ABSTRACT:
A test stand including a dynamometer having a housing with two parts relatively rotatable about an axis, one of the parts defining an end of the dynamometer and serving as a rotary input adapted to be coupled to a rotary output of a mechanism to be tested, the other of the parts defining the other end of the dynamometer, a fixed base, a movable base mounted on the fixed base for movement generally parallel to the axis, a motor for moving the movable base on the fixed base, a self-aligning bearing on the axis and rotatably interconnecting the other end of the dynamometer and the movable base, a load cell adjacent the dynamometer other end and interconnecting the housing other part and the movable base, and a cradle mounted on the movable base intermediate the dynamometer ends for supporting the housing when the rotary input is not coupled to a mechanism to be tested.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3221547 (1965-12-01), Wong et al.
patent: 3312105 (1967-04-01), Amtsberg
patent: 3513695 (1970-05-01), Stoddard et al.
patent: 4062234 (1977-12-01), Bartlett, Jr. et al.
Caterpillar Tractor Co.
Ruehl Charles A.
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