King pin assembly
AssigneeFord Motor Company
InventorVincent H. Hagedorn
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Abstract
A vehicle suspension assembly has a spindle with lower and upper arms forming a yoke, a knuckle support portion of a front axle fitted between the lower and upper arms, a kingpin extending through aligned holes in the knuckle support and lower and upper arms, a bearing assembly between the knuckle support and lower arm, a plate with a threaded aperture affixed to the spindle and a bolt threaded through the plate and abutting the top end of the kingpin to push the knuckle against the bearing assembly to assure a flush fit without vertical play of the bearing assembly between the lower arm and knuckle support.
Claims10
A king pin assembly comprising:
- a yoke with a first and second arm spaced apart from each other and a hole in each arm;
- a knuckle support sized to fit within the space between the two arms with an aperture extending therethrough and aligned with said holes in the two arms;
- a kingpin extending through the aperture in the knuckle support and into the holes in the two arms;
- retaining means for retaining the kingpin in its position relative to the knuckle support;
- a bearing assembly operatively interposed between the knuckle support and one of the arms;
- a separate adjustable member being longitudinally adjustable in the hole of the first arm;
- means for adjustably securing said separate member in a plurality of fixed longitudinal positions in the hole of the first arm;
- said separate member being operably connected to the knuckle support for pressing the knuckles and bearing assembly toward the second arm such that the bearing assembly is in snug abutting relationship interposed between the knuckle support and said one of the arms.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.