On 10 Jan, 11:19, "Alexander Thesoso" <[email protected]>
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> 214 Resolver. Produces a trigonometric function (sine/cosine) of an input.
> Used in a mechanical analog computer or a mechanical gun-directing computer.
It's a sine/cosine mechanical generator alright, the ball-raced wheel
inside runs over the surface of a sphere and can be moved from side to
side by the input shaft, thus varying the effective gearing ratio (as
the sphere's effective diameter changes), following a sine/cosine law.
However I've never heard these called a "resolver" before. IMHE,
resolvers were electro-mechanical polyphase AC devices, related to
synchros (rotating position to electrical phase transducers).
1196 Zurn key. I used one of them several years ago. It operates an outdoor
garden hose faucet on a commercial building. The one I used was on a LDS
church in a suburb of Rochester.
We had one for the entire building, and it was kept in the maintenance
closet. But I found it easier to use a 3/8 open end wrench.
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"R.H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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The latest set has just been posted:
http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
Rob
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> "R.H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> Still not sure about the lanyard, but the others have been answered
>> correctly this week:
>>
>> http://pzphotosans214xr.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>>
>> Rob
>
>
> that's so funny, "lok un lok tool". it looks like there's a yellow label
> on the handle, is the writing on it in english or japanese? i know in
> japan the cab drivers have a built in mechanism in taxicabs that
> (manually) opens and closes (and locks?, i can't remember) the rear
> passenger doors. i was wondering where or WHY in the world anyone would
> need a "lok and unlok" tool. truckers picking up hookers at truck stops?
> ("hold on honey while i break out my trusty "lok and unlok tool"!) this
> lok and unlok tool reminded me most of the long thin hammers they use in
> europe to ring passenger train wheels at the train station, but, i mean,
> obviously that's not what it was for.
The writing on the tool is in English and there is a patent number but only
three digits are visible, I searched for it on Google patents but didn't
have any luck.
> 1194. in japanese. the illustration in the lower right LOOKED like a
> bath faucet, but i couldn't see how that round female part could attach to
> a square bath faucet and still be water and pressure tight. wow.
>
> 1195. lol. of course, a lobster cracker! it's so obvious now! looks
> JUST like the chrome plated ones at my local chinese buffet.
> This one is really close and maybe the one you're looking
> for:
>
> http://www.google.com/patents?vid=3760656
Thanks for finding that, I agree that it's probably the same tool so I went
ahead and added a link on the answer page. Upon closer inspection, the
digits that I thought were part of a patent number are most likely part of
an address to Van Nuys, CA. There is mention of a patent, but a lot of the
paper has been scraped away so that less than 20 percent of it is readable.
The inventor is from LA, which is right next to Van Nuys, so that's another
indication that this patent is the correct one.
Rob
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:23:12 -0500, "R.H."
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> that's so funny, "lok un lok tool". it looks like there's a yellow label
>> on the handle, is the writing on it in english or japanese? i know in
>> japan the cab drivers have a built in mechanism in taxicabs that
>> (manually) opens and closes (and locks?, i can't remember) the rear
>> passenger doors. i was wondering where or WHY in the world anyone would
>> need a "lok and unlok" tool. truckers picking up hookers at truck stops?
>> ("hold on honey while i break out my trusty "lok and unlok tool"!) this
>> lok and unlok tool reminded me most of the long thin hammers they use in
>> europe to ring passenger train wheels at the train station, but, i mean,
>> obviously that's not what it was for.
>
>
>The writing on the tool is in English and there is a patent number but only
>three digits are visible, I searched for it on Google patents but didn't
>have any luck.
Hi Rob,
Take a look at this patent:
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=3819221
"AUTOMOBILE DOOR BUTTON-OPERATING IMPLEMENT"
It is similar in principle. Care to share those three
numbers with the rest of us for the patent? (Grin)
Here are a few more similar devices:
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=3764175
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=4015871
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=4622868
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=4726263
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=4248465
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=D262263
This one is really close and maybe the one you're looking
for:
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=3760656
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On Jan 10, 6:48 am, Howard R Garner <[email protected]> wrote:
> R.H. wrote:
> > The latest set has just been posted:
>
> >http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>
> > Rob
>
1195 is a gas furnace key (Zurn gives that away)
1196 is a garlic clove crusher
JD
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> On 10 Jan, 14:58, Andy Dingley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It's a sine/cosine mechanical generator alright, the ball-raced wheel
>> inside runs over the surface of a sphere and can be moved from side to
>> side by the input shaft,
>
> Looking closer, I don't think those wheels move in the way I thought.
> That means it's just a differential adder, not sine/cosine.
>
> I guess you could call this a "resolver" (same function), but I'd
> never heard the term applied to these purely mechanical era gadgets,
> only the modern electro-mechanical ones (for 1930s and 1950s values
> of "ancient" and "modern"!)
damn there's some smart people in this group.
jc
Ned Simmons wrote:
> Leon Fisk wrote:
>>"R.H." wrote:
>>
>>>> that's so funny, "lok un lok tool".
>>
>>Take a look at this patent:
>>
>>http://www.google.com/patents?vid=3819221
>>
>>"AUTOMOBILE DOOR BUTTON-OPERATING IMPLEMENT"
>>
>
> Is that a patent for a stick?
FWIW, I had one of these things when I was driving a full-sized van which
didn't have power door locks, It did away with the necessity of climbing
(or trying to stretch) all the way across the front seats and anything
stacked in between them to unlock the other door.
On 10 Jan, 14:58, Andy Dingley <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's a sine/cosine mechanical generator alright, the ball-raced wheel
> inside runs over the surface of a sphere and can be moved from side to
> side by the input shaft,
Looking closer, I don't think those wheels move in the way I thought.
That means it's just a differential adder, not sine/cosine.
I guess you could call this a "resolver" (same function), but I'd
never heard the term applied to these purely mechanical era gadgets,
only the modern electro-mechanical ones (for 1930s and 1950s values
of "ancient" and "modern"!)
R.H. wrote:
> The latest set has just been posted:
>
>
> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
1195. Nutcracker.
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On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:47:58 -0500, Leon Fisk
<[email protected]> wrote:
>On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:23:12 -0500, "R.H."
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> that's so funny, "lok un lok tool".
>
>Take a look at this patent:
>
>http://www.google.com/patents?vid=3819221
>
>"AUTOMOBILE DOOR BUTTON-OPERATING IMPLEMENT"
>
Is that a patent for a stick?
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"R.H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> The latest set has just been posted:
>
>
> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
> Rob
1191. Gear Box ;~)
214 Resolver. Produces a trigonometric function (sine/cosine) of an input.
Used in a mechanical analog computer or a mechanical gun-directing computer.
"R.H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> The latest set has just been posted:
>
>
> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
> Rob
On 2008-01-10, R.H. <[email protected]> wrote:
> The latest set has just been posted:
>
>
> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
O.K. Posting from rec.crafts.metalworking as usual.
1191) This is some form of analog computing component. At a guess,
it is a three-axis integrator. Three axes of information come
in on the three non-central shafts, and the output on the
central shaft is proportional to the volume of the area covered
by the three other shafts (or at least, whatever is connected to
those shafts).
It may be part of an inertial navigation system, though it seems
too beefy for that -- since they are normally used in aircraft.
1192) Looks like something for popping apart oversized pop-beads at a
distance. Obviously nothing electrical, or the handle would be
an insulating material, not the aluminum or zinc-coated steel
which is currently there.
The red plastic cap would appear to be used for re-connecting
them.
1193) Hmm ... perhaps for controlling aggressive dogs (by the
handler), or perhaps for some kind of S&M game.
1194) At a guess -- it is some kind of snap-on shower head -- perhaps
to be used in a gravity-feed shower.
1195) Hmm ... it sort of looks like it is designed to safely grip
cartridge fuses -- except that it would be very difficult to get
into place. For that use, the semi-circular gripping surfaces
should be on the far side of the hinge.
1196) Looks like something for reaching into a recess and turning a
valve. Perhaps the water service shutoff at the street.
Now to see what others have said.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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