Motion and power transmission means

Claim 1

A MOTION AND POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE COMPRISING IN COMBINATION, A FLEXIBLE ONE-PIECE CORE OF PLASTIC IN THE FORM OF ALTERNATE SUBSTANTIALLY SPHERICAL BEADS, AND SPACERS CONNECTING SAID BEADS, THE BEADS BEING INTEGRAL WITH AND UNIFORMLY SPACED APRT BY SAID SPACERS, A HOLLOW HOUSING HAVING INLET AND OUTLET PORTS FOR MOVEMENT OF THE FLEXIBLE CORE THERETHROUGH, A ROTARY WORM DISPOSED NEAR ONE OF SAID PORTS AND HAVING A SPIRAL THREAD IN WHICH THE BEADS PARTIALLY SEAT, A ROTARY WHEEL JOURNALED FOR ROTATION UPON THE HOUSING, WITH THE AXIS OF ROTATION THEREOF AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE AXIS OF ROTATION OF THE WORM, SAID WHEEL INCLUDING A RIM PORTION TANGENT TO THE REMAINING PORT OF THE HOUSING FOR DIRECTING THE CORE TO AND FROM THE HOUSING INTERIOR, SAID WHEEL RIM PORTION BEING SPACED FROM THE WORM THREAD A DISTANCE LESS THAN THE DIAMETER OF A BEAD WHEREBY AT LEAST ONE BEAD OF THE CORE IS PRESSED BETWEEN THE WORM THREAD CONVOLUTIONS BY THE RIM PORTION OF THE WHEEL, SAID WHEEL BEING IN A PLANE WHICH INCLUDES THE AXIS OF THE WORM, AND MEANS FOR ROTATING THE WORM.