Bracket with floating tap plate for connecting vehicle suspensio

Details Bracket with floating tap plate for connecting vehicle suspensio Bracket with floating tap plate for connecting vehicle suspensio

1996-07-11

1999-09-07

Culbreth, Eric D.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Running gear

280800, 411104, B62D 2100

Patent

active

059475188

ABSTRACT:
A bracket includes a hollow base that can be welded to a frame rail of a vehicle. The base includes opposing U-shaped retainer arms that face each other and that define a bolt passageway therebetween. A plate including an internally tapped cylinder having a diameter less than the bolt passageway is disposed in the base between the arms, with the tapped cylinder positioned in the bolt passageway and the plate floatingly retained between the arms. With this combination of structure, the plate can move in the base. Consequently, a bolt can be engaged with a component of the rear suspension of the vehicle and advanced into the bolt passageway, and then the plate with cylinder moved as necessary to threadably engage the bolt to couple the suspension to the frame rail while absorbing minor manufacturing tolerance variations.

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