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US 5,095,860 AGranted
Engine valve cover apparatus
OwnerBobby T. Newellinventor
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Abstract
A trough shaped engine cover is arranged for mounting to a top portion of an overhead valve internal combustion engine. The valve cover includes a series of spaced boss members directed through a top wall of the valve cover, with each boss member defining a conduit mounting a removable plug assembly removably mounted relative to the conduit. Each conduit is coaxially aligned with a fulcrum portion of a rocker arm of the overhead valve assembly to permit access to the fulcrum by an adjusting wrench.
Claims5
An engine valve cover apparatus, comprising,
- a housing defining a trough-like configuration includes a top wall, spaced side walls, and space end walls, and
- a continuous mounting flange integrally mounted to a lower terminal edge of the side walls and the end walls spaced from the top wall for securement to a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine, and
- the top wall includes a predetermined number of cylindrical tube members each spaced apart an equal predetermined spacing integrally and orthogonally mounted to the top wall defining a cylindrical opening, and
- plug means removably mounted to the top wall, wherein the plug means effects selective plugging of each cylindrical opening of each cylindrical tube member, wherein the plug means defines a sealing plate housing, the sealing plate housing longitudinally aligned medially of the top wall, and the sealing plate housing including plate housing end walls positioned adjacent a top wall when the sealing plate housing is mounted to the top wall, wherein each plate housing end wall includes an extension leg fixedly mounted to each plate housing end wall, and each extension leg extends beyond and orthogonally oriented relative to a respective end wall of said housing end walls.
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