Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – With distinct wind deflector
Patent
1998-10-27
2000-05-09
Dayoan, D. Glenn
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
With distinct wind deflector
403 31, 4033223, 92 28, B60J 120, F15B 1526
Patent
active
060593539
ABSTRACT:
A securement assembly for reliably locking a vehicle component such as a wheel or a body panel to a vehicle. The securement assembly includes a slotted sleeve that is engageable with an opening of the vehicle component, to lock the component in place. The slotted sleeve incorporates a number of deflectable fingers, and a mandrel can be reciprocated along the sleeve's central longitudinal axis, between an extended position and a retracted position. When the mandrel is in its extended position, the sleeve's deflectable fingers are moved to a position that allows the vehicle component to be removed and replaced, whereas when the mandrel is in its retracted position, the fingers are moved into engagement with the vehicle component, to positively lock the component in place. A compression device, e.g., a series of Belleville spring washers, biases the mandrel to its retracted position, but the application of a positive fluid pressure to the securement assembly overcomes this spring bias, to move the mandrel to its retracted position. The vehicle component thereby can be removed and replaced without the need for any supplementary tools. The securement assembly has particular utility in a race car, for releasably securing its wheels and other components that might need to be rapidly removed and replaced, e.g., a nose cone assembly.
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Drews Michael F.
Whitman Duff C.
Brueggemann James R.
Chenevert Paul
Dayoan D. Glenn
Radloc Enterprises, LLC
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