The Torrington Company

Gordon C Butterfield

Giovanni C Albini

Michael R Morsches

Allan D Cox

John L Vitali

A joint assembly and a joint socket sleeve. The joint assembly includes a first yoke including a ball portion, a second yoke including a socket portion and a socket sleeve. The socket sleeve has a continuous side wall defining an opening for receiving the ball portion. A portion of the side wall is flexible. In some constructions, flat surfaces and/or grooves are formed on the outer surface of the socket sleeve. In some constructions, ribs are formed on the outer surface of the socket sleeve.

Joint assembly and joint socket sleeve

A telescopic shaft for rapid length adjustment consists of a tube having a plurality of alternating circumferential ridges and grooves on at least a portion of an inner surface and having an oval cross-section with a major diameter D and a minor diameter D ; a shaft disposed within the tube and having matching circumferential ridges and grooves, the shaft also having an oval cross-section with a major diameter D and a minor diameter D ; and the ridges and grooves of the tube interengaging with the grooves and ridges of the shaft when the shaft major diameter D is substantially parallel with the tube minor diameter D .

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Torrington, CT, United States of America

Gordon C Butterfield