Patent ID: 6913268
Filing Date: 2005-07-05
Classification: B23B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. Actuating device for at least one fluid-operated mechanism located in a rotary part of a machine, with a non-rotating command ring journalled on said rotary machine part and comprising at least one delivery channel for providing an actuating fluid to at least one corresponding receiving channel located in the rotary machine part and leading to the mechanism, wherein that at least one outer bearing surface belonging to the command ring is journalled through the carrier fluid of a fluid bearing on at least one inner bearing surface belonging to the machine part, and in that the stream of actuating fluid flowing between the delivery and the receiving channel traverses an annular gap maintained by the carrier fluid between the machine part and the command ring characterized in that at least one delivery channel has several delivery orifices separated by a certain angle around the axis of the fluid bearing.