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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 1976
Filed:
Jun. 19, 1973
Gerhard Maurer, Friedrichshafen, DT;
Fritz Geiger, Friedrichshafen, DT;
Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen AG, Friedrichshafen, DT;
Abstract
A dual hydraulic clutch with two operating positions and an intermediate neutral position receives pressure fluid through a three-position selector valve communicating with a pair of piston cylinders which are alternately under high and low fluid pressure in operation and are both under low pressure in neutral. Shifting the control valve partly unloads one of the cylinders into a throttled discharge line with generation of a pressure drop therein to actuate a bypass valve for instantly lowering the pressure in a supply line; the disappearance of this pressure drop upon termination of shifting gradually recloses the bypass valve for progressively raising the supply pressure to its operating level.