Isolator and suspension assembly for riding equipment
AssigneeMTD Products Inc
InventorPhilip Helin
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Abstract
A biasing element provides suspension between a pivoting component and a support area of a riding outdoor power equipment vehicle, and can include a body compressible between a default unbiased orientation and a compressed orientation. The body can include annular portions having a radially outer main portion circumscribing radially inner portions. The radially inner portions being vertically spaced apart when the body is in the default orientation and movable into engagement with one another upon compression of the body.
Claims17
A biasing element for providing suspension between a pivoting component and a support area of a riding outdoor power equipment vehicle, the biasing element comprising:
- a body compressible between a default unbiased orientation and a compressed orientation;
- the body having at least three annular portions, the at least three annular portions including a radially outer main portion circumscribing a pair of radially inner portions, the pair of radially inner portions movable during operational engagement between
- the default unbiased orientation in which the radially inner portions are vertically spaced apart from one another, and have a gap extending fully between one another, and
- the compressed orientation in which the radially inner portions are engaged with one another;
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- at least one retaining member for allowing fixing of the body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.