Reversible drives for threaded connectors

Claim 1

A REVERSIBLE DRIVE FOR AN EXTERNALLY THREADED CONNECTOR MOVABLE INTO AND OUT OF CONNECTION WITH AN OBJECT COMPRISING: AN INTERNALLY THREADED ELEMENT DISPOSED CONCENTRIC WITH THE CONNECTOR AND THREADEDLY CONNECTED THERETO, MEANS TO SUPPORT THE CONNECTOR FOR AXIAL MOVEMENT ONLY AND TO SUPPORT THE ELEMENT FOR ROTARY MOVEMENT ONLY, A MAIN GEAR MOVABLE IN FIRST AND SECOND DIRECTIONS DISPOSED CONCENTRIC WITH THE ELEMENT AND FIXED THERETO, A REVERSIBLE MOTOR MOUNTED AT A FIXED POSITION SPACED FROM THE CONNECTOR AND HAVING A SHAFT DRIVEN IN FIRST AND SECOND DIRECTIONS, A DRIVE GEAR MOUNTED ON THE MOTOR SHAFT, AN ARM DISPOSED ADJACENT THE MAIN GEAR AND SUPPORTED FOR ROCKING MOVEMENT ABOUT THE AXIS OF THE MOTOR SHAFT INTO AND OUT OF FIRST AND SECOND POSITIONS, A FIRST GEAR SMALLER THAN THE MAIN GEAR TO PROVIDE A PREDETERMINED GEAR RATIO BETWEEN THE DRIVE GEAR AND MAIN GEAR, ROTATABLY SUPPORTED BY THE ARM, DRIVEN BY THE DRIVE GEAR AND POSITIONED TO ENGAGE AND DRIVE THE MAIN GEAR IN ITS FIRST DIRECTION WHEN THE ARM IS IN THE FIRST POSITION DURING DRIVING OF THE MOTOR IN THE FIRST DIRECTION TO CAUSE THE ELEMENT TO MOVE THE CONNECTOR INTO CONNECTION WITH THE OBJECT, AND A TRAIN OF INTERCONNECTED GEARS ROTATABLY SUPPORTED BY THE ARM AND INCLUDING THE FIRST GEAR ENGAGING AND DRIVEN BY THE DRIVE GEAR AND A LAST GEAR OF THE TRAIN OF GEARS PROVIDING A MUCH GREATER GEAR RATIO BETWEEN THE DRIVE GEAR AND MAIN GEAR THROUGH THE TRAIN OF GEARS THAN THROUGH THE FIRST GEAR ABOVE TO DRIVE THE MAIN GEAR IN ITS SECOND DIRECTION THROUGH THE TRAIN OF GEARS WHEN THE ARM IS IN THE SECOND POSITION DURING DRIVING OF THE MOTOR IN THE SECOND DIRECTION FOR DRIVING THE MAIN GEAR IN THE SECOND DIRECTION WITH SUFFICIENTLY INCREASED TORQUE TO BREAK THE CONNECTION INSTANTLY BETWEEN THE CONNECTOR AND THE OBJECT.