Suspension for vehicles
OwnerArnold Royse, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A suspension for a vehicle frame wherein there are two elongated mutually crossing cantilever arms on each side of the frame, two of the arms being pivoted to the frame near its front and carrying drive wheels at their rear ends, and two other arms being pivoted to the frame near its rear and carrying steered wheels at their front ends, and the arms being spring urged with respect to the frame at points which are located near the opposite end of the frame from the end where the wheels they carry are located, and the suspension having appropriate guides, stop members, and stabilizers for controlling the motions of the arms.
Claims10
A suspension for a vehicle having elongated side frame members and having a pair of rear wheels and a pair of steered wheels, comprising:
- a pair of first hanger brackets mounted on the side frame members forward of the longitudinal center of the frame and extending transversely therefrom in opposite directions;
- rear suspension means including a pair of rearwardly extending cantilever arms offset from and extending substantially parallel to the side frame members and supported at their forward ends in transversely disposed horizontal pivots carried by said first hanger brackets;
- transverse axle means carrying said rear wheels and carried by said rearwardly extending cantilever arms near their rearward ends;
- rear suspension spring means coupled between each rearwardly extending cantilever arm and the frame, and operative to support the frame on the rear suspension.
- a pair of second hanger brackets mounted on the side frame members to the rear of the longitudinal center of the frame and extending transversely therefrom in opposite directions;
- forward suspension means including a pair of forwardly extending cantilever arms offset from and extending substantially parallel to the side frame members and to said rearwardly extending cantilever arms and supported at their rear ends in transversely disposed horizontal pivots carried by said second hanger brackets, each forwardly extending cantilever arm having at its front end a steering joint mounting a steered wheel outwardly of the frame;
- forward suspension spring means coupled between each forwardly extending cantilever arm and the frame, and operative to support the frame on the rear suspension;
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- a front axle coupled to the front of each front suspension cantilever arm and extending inwardly of the frame therefrom, each front axle extending across the center of the frame and being mounted in a horizontal longitudinal pivot in the side frame member opposite the arm to which it is attached.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.