One-piece rocker arm with insert

Details One-piece rocker arm with insert One-piece rocker arm with insert

1983-02-09

1988-04-19

Koczo, Michael

Internal-combustion engines

Poppet valve operating mechanism

Rocker

123 9039, F01L 118

Patent

active

047382317

ABSTRACT:
A one-piece, cold-formed rocker arm of the cam-follower type is provided. The rocker arm includes a one-piece metal body cold-formed from a metal blank generally in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped. The rocker arm has a rounded recess formed at one end portion of the metal body to receive a lifter post having an end on which the rocker arm can pivot. An opening flaring upwardly and outwardly from the rounded recess extends through the metal body for lubricating purposes. The metal body also has an additional recess at another end portion to receive an end of a valve stem. An intermediate portion of the body is convex, facing away from the recesses and has a shallow recess in which is received a hardened metal insert to be engaged by a cam. The side of the body opposite the shallow recess has a shallow rectangular projection extending outwardly. The metal body can have gussets extending between the one end portion and the convex portion of the body or the body can have side flanges extending downwardly therefrom, to provide strength and stiffness.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2982273 (1961-05-01), Bergmann
patent: 3563216 (1971-02-01), Uemura
patent: 3690958 (1972-09-01), Thompson
patent: 3791355 (1974-02-01), Bergmann et al.
patent: 4359019 (1982-11-01), Guede

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