Hydraulic anti-vibratory support sleeves
AssigneeHutchinson
InventorPierre Jouade
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Abstract
A hydraulic anti-vibratory support sleeve is provided having two rigid tubular frames surrounding each other mutually and joined together by an elastomer body adhering thereto and shaped so as to form at least two sealed pockets full of liquid and communicating together through a narrow channel, said body having the general form of an X in axial section. The channel extends along a transverse arc of a circle situated axially and radially at the level of the ends of the arms of the X.
Claims12
In a support sleeve having two rigid tubular frames surrounding each other mutually and joined together by an elastomer body adhering thereto and shaped so as to form between said two frames at least two diametrically opposite sealed pockets communicating together through a narrow channel, the portion of the elastomer body which defines one at least of these pockets having in axial section the general form of a radially outwardly open V, and the assembly of pockets and the channel being filled with a damping liquid, said channel extends along a transverse arc of a circle having as axis the axis of the external tubular frame and is situated axially and radially at the level of the end of one of the arms of the above V.
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