Support member for an exhaust pipe of a motor vehicle
AssigneeFord Motor Company
InventorEhrenfried Woesler
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Abstract
A one-piece elastic support having an outer loop-like main body portion secured to the vehicle body with a tether or strap projecting in a cantilever manner from the loop into the central opening for supporting a portion of the exhaust system from the lower end of the strap, the lower end of the strap having a tab or cam that projects beyond the lower end of the loop for contact with it to prevent undue deflection of the strap, the engagement of the tab effecting a stiffer or more rigid suspension thereafter.
Claims5
A suspension device for an exhaust pipe of a motor vehicle comprising a one-piece flexible mounting support member having a loop type body portion with a central opening,
- an elastic tether portion depending in a cantilever manner from the body portion into the central opening for a swinging movement with respect to the body portion,
- the body portion having a hole therein at one end adapted to receive a vehicle support member therethrough, and
- the tether portion having a hole therein adapted to receive therethrough a portion of the exhaust pipe to provide an elastically soft suspension of the exhaust pipe from the vehicle, the tether portion being freely swingible through the central opening in either direction, and including a protuberance extending from one end a distance sufficient to overlap the body portion during swinging movement of the tether portion in one direction to thereby engage the tether portion against the body portion to resist further swinging movement of the tether portion in the one direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.