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US 3,939,815 AGranted
Engine starter and bracket
OwnerDonald K. Spiveyinventor
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OwnerDonald K. Spiveyinventor
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In an engine assembly including a starter mechanism having a housing receiving a starter rope reel normally retained in the housing by ears integral with the housing and bent inwardly to underlie the reel; the provision of one or more brackets for supporting the reel in the event that one or more ears are damaged or broken off while being bent during removal or installation of the reel, as during replacement of the reel starting rope, for example. Columns support a reel receiving portion of the housing on a lower part of the housing. The brackets clamp to these columns and have an abutment on which the periphery of the reel is surmounted. Each bracket has opposed channels and is somewhat resilient to snap over and receive opposite edge portions of the column in the channels. The brackets are preferably formed of a heat and lubicant resistent plastic such as molded nylon.
A starter mechanism comprising a housing having a support with opposite edge portions, a starter reel received within said housing, a bracket including a body having a face and an end portion, said body including means for mounting the bracket on the support, the mounting means extending outwardly from said face and including opposed channels, one for each of the support edge portions, for receiving the associated one of the support edge portions, the channels being transverse to the body end portion, said body further including means for supporting said reel, the supporting means being proximate said end portion and extending in a direction opposite that of the mounting means.
An article supporting bracket to be mounted on a support having opposite edge portions, said bracket comprising, a body having a face and an end portion, said body including means for mounting the bracket on the support, the mounting means extending outwardly from said face and including opposed channels, one for each of the support edge portions, for receiving the associated one of the support edge portions, the channels being transverse to the body end portion, said body further including means for supporting an article, the supporting means being proximate said end portion and extending in a direction opposite that of the mounting means, the mounting means being relatively resilient for snappping over and gripping the support edge portions, and the supporting means being relatively rigid for effectively rigidly supporting the article.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.