US2108538A - Means and method for turning rotatable objects to predetermined positions - Google Patents

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US2108538A
US2108538A US149245A US14924537A US2108538A US 2108538 A US2108538 A US 2108538A US 149245 A US149245 A US 149245A US 14924537 A US14924537 A US 14924537A US 2108538 A US2108538 A US 2108538A
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    • H03JTUNING RESONANT CIRCUITS; SELECTING RESONANT CIRCUITS
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  • the invention herein described is a division of my Patent No. 2,084,851, issuing June 22, 1937, and filed December 15, 1934, and relates to improvements in automatic apparatus for turning rotatable objects about their axes to predetermined positions and more particularly to means wherebya plurality of such objects may be immediately and simultaneously rotated to ny one of several pre-selected positions or "settings which may be different for each rotated object.
  • the purposes of this invention are to provide simple apparatus for turning dials, shafts and the like to the particular settings required in using an instrument or machine for a definite task; to afford means whereby a plurality of such rotatable elements may be simultaneously turned each to a pre-selected position which may be different from thatto which, any other such element is being turned; to provide a simple manually operated control for accurately returning such rotatable elements to any desired previous position; to provide mechanism whereby a single manual operation will cause a plurality of rotatable members each to be turned to any one of a group of pro-selected positions; to providemeans for simultaneously setting the dials of a radio receiving set and a television receiving set; to make it possible for a single manual operation to tune either a radio set or a television set, or both; and to afford means whereby the apparatus may easily be adjusted so that a deflnite manual operation will cause the desired rotatable element to be turned to a desired position.
  • the application of this invention to radio and television makes it possible to "tune in a radio broadcasting station and its associated television broadcasting station in far less time and with much less bother than would otherwise be required.
  • the satisfactory transmission of both sound and vision by radio waves requires that they be transmitted on different carrier frequencies.
  • To receive both receiving set must be tuned to the frequency on which the radio broadcasting station. is transmitting, and the short wave television receiver must be tuned to the different frequency of the 55 television broadcasting station which transmits the sound and the associated television, the radio the images of the scene at which the radio program originates.
  • the dial settings for these stations are entirely different, and it is therefore impractical to turn the dials synchronously by any connecting means, such as gears, belts or a 5 common shaft.
  • the present invention makes it possible to accomplish this double tuning by a single manual operation.
  • Fig. 1 shows a pair of concentric rectangular rockers, each attached to a different control shaft.
  • Fig. 2 shay aside view of the rockers of Fig. 15 1, together with a positioning lever assembly having adjustable tappets for engaging the rockers' Fig. 3 is a section of the lever assembly shown in Fig. 2, taken on line b8b.
  • rocker 43 Fig. 1
  • the rocker 43 is pivoted at one end on an immovable shaft 69 held in support 5d by screw M.
  • the other end is attached to shaft S by pin 52.
  • Shaft S has a journal 53 and may be considered as connected to a radio tuning device.
  • Rocker Ed is free to pivot on shafts S and H, but has a hub 55 attached by screw 56 to shaft 25 of a television tuner, not shown.
  • the lever F, pivoted on rod Q has an extension 51, also shown in Fig. 3, which is a cross section taken on line sa es, Fig. 2.
  • the extension M carries a pin Gil, on which are pivoted tappets 6i and 62 having hubs 63 and 66 respectively, shown most clearly in Fig. 3.
  • the tappets are kept from coming off the pivot by nuts'fib.
  • Lever 66 straddles lever F as shown in Fig. 3,- and is pivoted on rivet 61 as indicated in both Figs. 2 and 3.
  • Lever 66 has legs 68 for engaging the hubs of the tappets.
  • the free end of lever 86 base fiat horizontal section 69 having a hole ill.
  • lever F is shaped similar to the end of lever 66, and has'a smaller hole than that in lever 56. This hole is tapped to admit the set screw H which passes through hole 10 in the upper lever.
  • the set screw has a knurled top 12. When this set screw is tight-- ened, the legs 68 of lever 68 clamp down on hubs 63 and it, thus keeping the tappets from turning.
  • This lever assembly is raised up from the position shown to an inoperative position by spring 13 attached to the lever at I4 and to a stationary support at 15.
  • the lever assembly is pressed down, set screw H loosened to take the tension from hubs 63 and 64, permitting the tappets to move freely, and with the lever still held down, the desired associated stations are tuned in by the regular manual tuners (not shown here) and the setscrew tightened again to fix the tappets in the positions to which they were moved by the rockers during the manual tuning operation. How the tappets or rockers move to the angular position of whichever is the fixed member, will be evident from Fig. 2. After the automatic tuner has been set in this manner, the lever may be released, permitting the spring 13 to raise the assembly out of the way of the rockers which are now free to move to other angular positions as other stations are tuned in.
  • the tappets By placing the finger on the knurled knob 12 and pressing the lever down, the tappets will strike the rockers in whatever angular position they may happen to be, and will move them to the position occupied when the setting operation took place.
  • radio and television tuners be attached directly to the shafts indicated.
  • the sets may be some distance apart and the motion of the automatic tuning mechanism transmitted by cords, belts, shafts and universal joints, chains, gears or even flexible shafts.
  • a combination including a plurality of rotatable members having a common axis, a lever manually movable in a plane transverse to said axis, a plurality of adjustable members pivoted to said lever at a point substantially as far from the fulcrum of said lever as said axis is from said fulcrum, each of said adjustable members adapted to'engage one of said rotatable members upon movement of said lever, and to move said rotatable member to a predetermined angular position, and means for fixing said adjustable members upon their pivots in predetermined angular positions at will.
  • a combination including a plurality of rotatable members having a common axis, a first lever manually movable in a plane transverse to said axis, a plurality of adjustable members pivoted to said lever at a point substantially as far from the fulcrum of said lever as said axis is from said fulcrum, each of said adjustable members adapted to engage one of said rotatable members upon movement of said first lever and to move said rotatable member to a predetermined angular position, a second lever pivoted upon said first lever, said second lever adapted to engage said adjustable members and hold them in fixed positions with relation to said first lever, and means for tightening said second lever against said adjustable members.
  • a combination including a rectangular rocker having two parallel sides pivoted on an axis substantially parallel to the other sides, a second rocker of like description lying within said first rocker and independently pivoted on the same axis as said first rocker, a first tappet pivotally mounted upon a lever and adapted to engage one of said rockers, a second tappet mounted upon said lever and adapted to engage the other rocker, said tappets adapted to rotate said rockers to predetermined angular positions upon movement of said lever.
  • a combination including a rectangular rocker having two parallel sides pivoted on an axis substantially parallel to the other two sides, a second rocker of like description lying within said first rocker and independently pivoted upon the same axis as said first rocker, a first tappet movably mounted upon a first lever and adapted to engage one of said rockers, a second tappet movably mounted upon said first lever and adapted to engage the other rocker, said tappets adapted to rotate said rockers to predetermined angular positions upon movement of said lever, and a second lever pivotally mounted upon said first lever and adapted to engage said tappets and hold them in fixed positions with relation to said first lever.
  • a combination including: two independently rotatable control shafts;'a first pair of positionable elements operatively connected with one of said shafts; a second pair of positionable elements operatively connected with the other of said shafts; an operating lever; a first and second tappet member adjustably mounted on said lever; said first tappet member adapted upon movement of said lever to engage said first pair of positionable elements; and said second tappet member adapted upon movement of said lever to engage said second pair of positionable elements.

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Feb. 15, 1938. v LE ROY J. LEISHMAN 8,
MEANS AND METHOD FOR TURNING ROTATABIJE OBJECT S' TO PREDETERMINED POSITIONS Original Filed Dec. 15, 1954 6:15] 5 i1 iiiiiiz iigia f O I 75 72 74 73 cflflllg ,Q Q)
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Patented Feb. 15, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT MEANS AND METHOD FOR TURNING RO- TATABLE OBJECTS TO PREDETERMINEB POSITIONS Le Roy J. Leishman, Los Angelica, Calif.
6 Claims.
The invention herein described is a division of my Patent No. 2,084,851, issuing June 22, 1937, and filed December 15, 1934, and relates to improvements in automatic apparatus for turning rotatable objects about their axes to predetermined positions and more particularly to means wherebya plurality of such objects may be immediately and simultaneously rotated to ny one of several pre-selected positions or "settings which may be different for each rotated object. The purposes of this invention are to provide simple apparatus for turning dials, shafts and the like to the particular settings required in using an instrument or machine for a definite task; to afford means whereby a plurality of such rotatable elements may be simultaneously turned each to a pre-selected position which may be different from thatto which, any other such element is being turned; to provide a simple manually operated control for accurately returning such rotatable elements to any desired previous position; to provide mechanism whereby a single manual operation will cause a plurality of rotatable members each to be turned to any one of a group of pro-selected positions; to providemeans for simultaneously setting the dials of a radio receiving set and a television receiving set; to make it possible for a single manual operation to tune either a radio set or a television set, or both; and to afford means whereby the apparatus may easily be adjusted so that a deflnite manual operation will cause the desired rotatable element to be turned to a desired position. The application of this invention to radio and television makes it possible to "tune in a radio broadcasting station and its associated television broadcasting station in far less time and with much less bother than would otherwise be required. The large number of pictorial elements needed in television for the transmission of a single detailed image within the time period of 5 quencies in the short wave bands for this purpose. For these and other reasons, the satisfactory transmission of both sound and vision by radio waves requires that they be transmitted on different carrier frequencies. To receive both receiving set must be tuned to the frequency on which the radio broadcasting station. is transmitting, and the short wave television receiver must be tuned to the different frequency of the 55 television broadcasting station which transmits the sound and the associated television, the radio the images of the scene at which the radio program originates. The dial settings for these stations are entirely different, and it is therefore impractical to turn the dials synchronously by any connecting means, such as gears, belts or a 5 common shaft. The present invention makes it possible to accomplish this double tuning by a single manual operation.
Still other objects of this invention will be evident as the description proceeds.
In the accompanying drawing:
Fig. 1 shows a pair of concentric rectangular rockers, each attached to a different control shaft.
Fig. 2 shay aside view of the rockers of Fig. 15 1, together with a positioning lever assembly having adjustable tappets for engaging the rockers' Fig. 3 is a section of the lever assembly shown in Fig. 2, taken on line b8b.
The rocker 43, Fig. 1, is pivoted at one end on an immovable shaft 69 held in support 5d by screw M. The other end is attached to shaft S by pin 52. Shaft S has a journal 53 and may be considered as connected to a radio tuning device. Rocker Ed is free to pivot on shafts S and H, but has a hub 55 attached by screw 56 to shaft 25 of a television tuner, not shown.
An optional modification is to omit the shaft 69 and extend control shaft 25 through the hearing of rocker M into Journal 60. If control shaft 251s adequately supported, the journal also may be omitted. In either case, rocker 48 must not be attached to shaft 2%.
In Fig. 2, the lever F, pivoted on rod Q, has an extension 51, also shown in Fig. 3, which is a cross section taken on line sa es, Fig. 2. The extension M carries a pin Gil, on which are pivoted tappets 6i and 62 having hubs 63 and 66 respectively, shown most clearly in Fig. 3. The tappets are kept from coming off the pivot by nuts'fib. Lever 66 straddles lever F as shown in Fig. 3,- and is pivoted on rivet 61 as indicated in both Figs. 2 and 3. Lever 66 has legs 68 for engaging the hubs of the tappets. The free end of lever 86 base fiat horizontal section 69 having a hole ill. The end of lever F is shaped similar to the end of lever 66, and has'a smaller hole than that in lever 56. This hole is tapped to admit the set screw H which passes through hole 10 in the upper lever. The set screw has a knurled top 12. When this set screw is tight-- ened, the legs 68 of lever 68 clamp down on hubs 63 and it, thus keeping the tappets from turning. This lever assembly is raised up from the position shown to an inoperative position by spring 13 attached to the lever at I4 and to a stationary support at 15.
To set an automatic tuner of this kind so that it will return the tuning shafts S and 25 to any angular position that may be required to bring in a pair of associated radio and television stations, the lever assembly is pressed down, set screw H loosened to take the tension from hubs 63 and 64, permitting the tappets to move freely, and with the lever still held down, the desired associated stations are tuned in by the regular manual tuners (not shown here) and the setscrew tightened again to fix the tappets in the positions to which they were moved by the rockers during the manual tuning operation. How the tappets or rockers move to the angular position of whichever is the fixed member, will be evident from Fig. 2. After the automatic tuner has been set in this manner, the lever may be released, permitting the spring 13 to raise the assembly out of the way of the rockers which are now free to move to other angular positions as other stations are tuned in.
By placing the finger on the knurled knob 12 and pressing the lever down, the tappets will strike the rockers in whatever angular position they may happen to be, and will move them to the position occupied when the setting operation took place.
When the lever assembly is all the way down, it will be observed from Fig. 2 that the pin is substantially co-axial with the rockers 48 and 54, which means that in this position it is also co-axial with shafts S, 49 and 25, shown in Fig. 1. Pin 80 and shafts S, 49 and 25 are therefore all approximately equidistant from the fulcrum Q. If a plurality of such lever assemblies are mounted on shaft Q, each one may be set to bring in a different pair of radio and television stations.
In using this automatic tuning apparatus, it is not necessary that radio and television tuners be attached directly to the shafts indicated. The sets may be some distance apart and the motion of the automatic tuning mechanism transmitted by cords, belts, shafts and universal joints, chains, gears or even flexible shafts.
Still other modifications may be made from the automatic tuning systems and devices herein described without departing from the general nature and purpose of the invention.
My claims are:
1. A combination including a plurality of rotatable members having a common axis, a lever manually movable in a plane transverse to said axis, a plurality of adjustable members pivoted to said lever at a point substantially as far from the fulcrum of said lever as said axis is from said fulcrum, each of said adjustable members adapted to'engage one of said rotatable members upon movement of said lever, and to move said rotatable member to a predetermined angular position, and means for fixing said adjustable members upon their pivots in predetermined angular positions at will.
2. A combination including a plurality of rotatable members having a common axis, a first lever manually movable in a plane transverse to said axis, a plurality of adjustable members pivoted to said lever at a point substantially as far from the fulcrum of said lever as said axis is from said fulcrum, each of said adjustable members adapted to engage one of said rotatable members upon movement of said first lever and to move said rotatable member to a predetermined angular position, a second lever pivoted upon said first lever, said second lever adapted to engage said adjustable members and hold them in fixed positions with relation to said first lever, and means for tightening said second lever against said adjustable members.
3. A combination including a rectangular rocker having two parallel sides pivoted on an axis substantially parallel to the other sides, a second rocker of like description lying within said first rocker and independently pivoted on the same axis as said first rocker, a first tappet pivotally mounted upon a lever and adapted to engage one of said rockers, a second tappet mounted upon said lever and adapted to engage the other rocker, said tappets adapted to rotate said rockers to predetermined angular positions upon movement of said lever.
4. A combination including a rectangular rocker having two parallel sides pivoted on an axis substantially parallel to the other two sides, a second rocker of like description lying within said first rocker and independently pivoted upon the same axis as said first rocker, a first tappet movably mounted upon a first lever and adapted to engage one of said rockers, a second tappet movably mounted upon said first lever and adapted to engage the other rocker, said tappets adapted to rotate said rockers to predetermined angular positions upon movement of said lever, and a second lever pivotally mounted upon said first lever and adapted to engage said tappets and hold them in fixed positions with relation to said first lever.
5. The combination with the tuning mechanism of a radio apparatus; of a rotatable rocker mounted upon a shaft operatively connected with said mechanism, said rocker having two arms each extending on a different side of said shaft; means movable about a pivot and acting upon operation in one direction to slidably engage either arm of said rocker and push it in one direction to an angular position at which the movement of said rocker is arrested by the collision of said means and the oppositely moving other arm of said rocker; and a spring for holding said means in a normally inoperative position.
6. In a radio communication device, a combination including: two independently rotatable control shafts;'a first pair of positionable elements operatively connected with one of said shafts; a second pair of positionable elements operatively connected with the other of said shafts; an operating lever; a first and second tappet member adjustably mounted on said lever; said first tappet member adapted upon movement of said lever to engage said first pair of positionable elements; and said second tappet member adapted upon movement of said lever to engage said second pair of positionable elements.
LE ROY J. LEISHMAN.
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