Eltra Corporation

Universal Industrial Products Co. (div. of Core Industries, Inc.)

Bruce W Mitton

Calvin V Kern

Neil L Marko

A hydraulic cylinder usable as a shock-absorbing trim and tilt cylinder for adjusting the position of an outboard motor or outdrive unit of a boat, is provided with a piston including pilot-operated valve means which stepwise responds at a precisely setable pressure, to pressures resulting from impact of an outboard motor or outdrive unit upon an obstacle, the valve means then departing as a poppet-type relief valve to allow the outboard motor or outdrive unit to return to operative position following the impact. The hydraulic cylinder is provided with an integral conduit formed by milling a groove or slot from a point adjacent its mounting end to the point adjacent its rod end, and fastening a cover over the groove. The cylinder's mounting eye end is provided with passages that cooperate with passages in its mounting pin to supply hydraulic fluid to first and second chambers defined by the piston within the cylinder, one of the passages in the mounting eye end intersecting the integral conduit to supply fluid to the rod-end chamber defined by the piston.

Hydraulic cylinder

A push-pull door latch having a pivotally secured handle and handle support perative for rotating a cam member via a pinion member in response to pivotal motion of an elongated leg on the handle support and the engagement of a driver tab on the elongated leg with the pinion member, and with the rotational motion of the cam member driving a slide member in translation, with the slide member connected with a bolt of a bolt assembly and with the translational movement of the slide member moving the bolt to a latched or unlatched position and with the slide member moving the bolt to its unlatched position in response to pivotal motion of the elongated leg by either pushing or pulling on the handle.

Push-pull door latch

Means are disclosed for dissipating supercharge pressure in a hydraulic system including a reversible pump (18) directly connected to a hydraulic cylinder (22). Supercharge pressure results from unequal areas on either side of a piston (24) of a single-ended hydraulic cylinder (22). When the piston moves towards the blind end of the cylinder (22), more fluid is displaced from the cylinder than is admitted to the cylinder on the opposite side of the piston. Means responsive to a pressure at a first port (82) of the pump (18) opens a passage between the second port (76) of the pump (18) and a fluid reservoir (16), allowing fluid in excess of the pump's intake requirements to pass to the reservoir (16). In a first embodiment of the invention, a rocker mechanism (60) is actuated by a piston (66) responsive to pressure at the first port (82) pressing against a first end (20) of the rocker mechanism (60), the second end (74) of the rocker mechanism (60) displacing a check ball (38) of a keep-full valve. In a second embodiment of the invention, passages (126, 128) are provided in a pilot piston (106) for pilot-operated check valves (42, 44), so that when the piston (106), in response to pressure at the first port (82), opens a check valve (42), to allow fluid to return from the cylinder (22), passages (126, 128) in the piston (106), opening upon the face (129) of the pilot piston (106) adjacent the check valve, become aligned with a passage (130) to the reservoir (16), allowing excess or supercharge oil to flow to the reservoir (16).

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Fayette, OH, United States of America

Bruce W Mitton