Harvard Industries, Inc.

Hayes-albion Corporation

Carl A Nilson

Lawrence C Kennedy

Thomas J Weir

An internal combustion engine coolant fan assembly including a self contained thermally controlled clutch or externally controlled clutch having a housing and a fan blade assembly which is attached to the housing by a circular hub utilizing an interference fit or threaded connection. Preferably, the housing includes cooling fins, and the blade assembly circular hub is mounted on the outer edges of the cooling fins.

Plastic fan and thermal clutch drive

A hydraulic cooling system for vehicles utilizing a hydraulic pump driven by the vehicle engine, the pump, preferably, having high and low volume chambers, a shroud adapted to be associated with the vehicle engine cooling radiator, a fan driven by hydraulic fluid pressurized by the pump for producing air flow through the shroud and the engine cooling radiator, and the hydraulic circuit between the pump and the fan motor includes a reservoir and a control valve sensitive to the engine coolant temperature. The control valve is located within the reservoir, and the reservoir is mounted upon the shroud and includes heat exchanging fins exposed to the air passage within the shroud. The entire combination of components may be pre-assembled and shipped and installed as a unit.

Vehicle hydraulic cooling fan system

The invention pertains to a piston for use in vehicle automatic transmissions and the method of making the same. An automatic transmission piston is of an annular configuration having a radial pressure face and an axially extending flange which includes an outer periphery in which a seal receiving groove is defined. The invention produces the piston from a sheet metal stamping blank and the blank flange is of a greater axial dimension than that of the flange after forming. The seal receiving groove is formed in the piston flange by a rolling operation, and during the rolling the axial dimension of the flange is reduced by compression of the flange material wherein the metal radially displaced is provided by the flange compression and the radial dimension of the flange thickness is substantially maintained during and after rolling as the simultaneous compression of the flange during the rolling of the seal receiving groove provides the extra metal required without producing a deficiency in the piston dimensions.

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Jackson, MI, United States of America

Carl A Nilson