Spring devices – Vehicle – Leaf
Patent
1985-12-02
1987-08-04
Kashnikow, Andres
Spring devices
Vehicle
Leaf
267148, B60G 1102, F16F 136
Patent
active
046841105
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 base, a resilient wedge insert, and a rigid clamp plate. The clamp base provides a bottom wall and substantially parallel side walls extending from the bottom wall to form a channel adapted to receive the wedge insert. The inner surface of at leaf 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 has a bottom wall and substantially parallel side walls extending from the bottom wall to a top wall and forms an inner channel adapted to laterally jacket the leaf spring. The outer surface of the wedge insert substantially fills the clamp base channel and, so, provides 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 tab-and-slot means such that they can accurately and easily be attached to each other in position to yield a preselected degree of pre-load.
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Sale Robert F.
Wells Wayne E.
Ford Motor Company
Kashnikow Andres
May Roger L.
McDermott Peter D.
Oberleitner Robert J.
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