Deere & Company

William L Snyder

Roger J Nelson

Donald J Macdonald

Arlen W Koelling

James A Miller

A radial piston pump is provided with a plurality of valve/piston cartridges. Each cartridge includes the piston and at least one of the valves connecting the piston to the inlet and outlet passages of the pump. The bearings for the main rotor are pre-loaded using a threadedly adjustable end guill. Once adjusted, the end quill is held in location by a pin or the like. The rotor itself is provided with counterweights to balance the eccentric cam surface. These features allow construction of a pump housing which is substantially a single unit, rather than two pump halves. A significant reduction in the number of machined bores also is obtained.

Rotor bearing pre-load for a radial piston pump

A radial piston pump is provided with a plurality of valve/piston cartridges. Each cartridge includes the piston and at least one of the valves connecting the piston to the inlet and outlet passages of the pump. The bearings for the main rotor are pre-loaded using a threadedly adjustable end quill. Once adjusted, the end guill is held in location by a pin or the like. The rotor itself is provided with counterweights to balance the eccentric cam surface. These features allow construction of a pump housing which is substantially a single unit, rather than two pump halves. A significant reduction in the number of machined bores also is obtained.

Valve/piston cartridge and rotor bearing pre-load for a radial piston

A direction control valve for controlling a reversible hydraulic actuator includes a valve body in which a pair of valve stems and a pair of float control pistons, respectively axially aligned with the valve stems, are reciprocally mounted. To establish a float condition in the actuator, the pair of valve stems are simultaneously shifted to respective active positions by engagement of the pair of float-control pistons to which pressure fluid is routed upon selective energization of a solenoid-operated valve by manually closing a first normally open switch. A second normally open switch is connected in parallel with the first switch and is closed by a switch-control piston mounted in the valve body between and in fluid communication with the float-control pistons and shiftable concurrent therewith whereby the manually operable switch may be released without effecting de-energization of the solenoid-operated valve. A control rod is rockably mounted in the valve body for selective movement to opposite sides of a neutral position for respectively initiating independent shifting of the pair of valve stems to their active positions for respectively effecting extend and retract conditions in the actuator. A cam is fixed to the control rod and is operable, when the control valve is in its float-effecting condition and the control rod is moved from its neutral position, to move the switch-control piston to release the second switch and de-energize the solenoid-operated valve whereby the control valve is released from its float effecting condition.

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Cedar Falls, IA, United States of America

William L Snyder