Actuators for electric starters
AssigneeSociete de Paris et du Rhone
InventorAlfred B. Mazzorana
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an actuator for an electric starter, comprising a thin sleeve of which the periphery comprises two flanges between which a two-piece collar is placed. The lugs of this collar engage in a notch in the lever to prevent rotation of the sleeve. The invention finds particular application in the automobile industry.
Claims6
An actuator for a starter for an internal combustion engine, the starter having a shaft with a toothed portion surrounded by a toothed sleeve slidable thereon to engage the starter, and having a solenoid-actuated lever having a forked portion in the vicinity of the sleeve and operative to slide the sleeve on the shaft, the improved actuator comprising
- on the sleeve an external bearing surface having an annular flange extending from the bearing surface at each end thereof;
- a collar surrounding the bearing surface and confined thereon by said flanges, the collar having stops thereon, and the forked portion of the lever straddling the collar and being longitudinally confined between the stops;
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- the collar having a lug thereon extending radially therefrom toward the lever, and the lever having a notch therein to receive the lug and confine it in the notch, whereby to prevent rotation of the collar relative to the lever.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.