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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 1984
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1981
Applicant:
Inventor:
Paul H Stahlhuth, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Assignee:
Ford Aerospace & Communications Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H / ; G04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
74-15 ; 185 38 ; 368124 ;
Abstract
An escapement device has a latch plate interposed between an input and output shaft. The latch plate is pivotably connected to the input and output shafts. The latch plate has a shoulder which abuts a coaxially mounted gear ring. The output shaft is spring loaded to rotate in one direction. The input shaft can be rotated to disengage the shoulder of the latch from one of the gear ring teeth to allow the output shaft to rotate under its spring bias until the output shaft repositions the latch shoulder to reengage another one of the gear ring teeth.