Arrangement for attaching spring assemblies to vehicle axle housings
AssigneeSaab-Scania Aktiebolag
InventorSigurd A. M. Nordstrom
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Abstract
An arrangement for attaching a spring assembly to an axle housing 1 in vehicles. At least two housing brackets 10, 11 are rigidly mounted on the front and the rear of an axle housing 1 for supporting a spring retaining seating 30 which is contacting the housing brackets 10, 11 from above or from below. U-bolts 32 are used to clamp a spring assembly against the seating 30 and to clamp the seating 30 against the housing brackets 10, 11. Each housing bracket 10, 11 has a baseplate 12 welded to the axle housing 1 and also has at least one supporting portion 15 that projects from the baseplate 12 and is provided with support planes 16, 17 for the spring retaining seating 30.
Claims12
Arrangement for attaching a spring assembly to an axle housing in vehicles, preferably the rear axle housing of a lorry, said spring assembly being attached to the vehicle frame or body and via a spring retaining seating or the like being removably secured to housing brackets rigidly mounted on the front and rear side surfaces of the axle housing, said spring retaining seating and housing brackets being provided with through-holes for U-bolts which by means of conventional clamping means acting on the housing brackets clamp the spring retaining seating and the spring assembly to the axle housing via the housing brackets, characterized in that each individual housing bracket is formed with a baseplate from which projects at least one supporting portion having an upper and a lower support plane, and in that each housing bracket having its baseplate contacting the axle housing is secured to the axle housing by means of a weld extending substantially round the whole of the periphery of the baseplate.
In a leaf-spring connecting assembly for connecting a leaf-spring assembly to a vehicle axle housing having front and rear surfaces:
- separate front and rear mounting brackets each of which includes a baseplate contacting and welded to the front and rear axle housing surfaces by welds which extend substantially around the peripheries of the baseplates, the front bracket having a supporting projection extending forwardly from the respective baseplate and the rear bracket having a supporting projection extending rearwardly from the respective baseplate, each of said supporting portions having an upper and a lower support plane;
- a removable spring retaining seating extending transversely of the axle housing and having portions engaging one of the support planes of each supporting projection;
- for each mounting bracket a U-bolt having end portions extending through generally vertical holes in the spring retaining seating and through holes in the supporting projection of each mounting bracket and having a central portion which passes around the leaf spring assembly and clamps the leaf spring assembly to the seating and the seating to the respective supporting bracket;
- and clamping means gripping the ends of said U-bolt and lying against the other support plane of each supporting projection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.