Spring devices – Vehicle – Leaf
Patent
1987-01-20
1989-01-31
Kashnikow, Andres
Spring devices
Vehicle
Leaf
267158, B60G 1102, F16F 136
Patent
active
048011290
ABSTRACT:
An improved leaf spring clamp is provided, particularly for use with composite material leaf springs, to securely fix the position of the leaf spring relative to a wheel axle or other suspension system member, such as in the suspension system of a motor vehicle. The leaf spring clamp comprises a rigid clamp plate. The clamp base forms a channel adapted to receive the wedge insert. The inner surface of at least one side wall of the clamp base fairs from both ends into a channel-widening concavity, preferably at the longitudinal midpoint of the channel. The wedge insert forms an inner channel adapted to laterally jacket the leaf spring. The outer surface of the wedge insert substantially fills the clamp base channel, providing a convexity adapted to register with the channel-widening concavity of the clamp base. The clamp plate attaches to the clamp base to clamp the leaf spring between them under a pre-load. The clamp plate and clamp base together comprise pin-and-hole means such that they can easily be attached to each other to yield a degree of compressive pre-load on the resilient insert.
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Ford Motor Company
Kashnikow Andres
Le Mark T.
May Roger L.
McDermott Peter D.
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