GB476786A - Steering mechanism and suspension means for motor-vehicles - Google Patents

Abstract

476,786. Motor-vehicle - steering-gear. RILEY (COVENTRY), Ltd., and RILEY, S. April 1, 1937, No. 9262. [Class 79 (v)] Steering - mechanism in which each steering swivel mounting 15, 16 is pivotally connected (1) to a single arm 13 movable about a transverse vehicle axis 12 and (2) to a resilient means restricted to rectilinear up-and-down movement,each steering swivel 16 carrying a steering arm 20 the operative end 21 or 22 of which moves during spring- ing movements in a curve resulting from the combined curved and rectilinear movements of the arms and the resilient means, is characterized in that the end or ends 28 of a steering lever 24 connected by links 26, 27 to the steering arms lies on or near the line 23 joining the centres of circles which approximate to the curved paths traced by the ends of the steering arms, so that springing movements result in said links tracing substantially conical surfaces. In the construction shown the spring suspension is that described in Specification 471,823, [Group XXXII], the resilient means being a transverse laminated spring 19 the ends of which are connected by shackles to arms 18 formed on members 15 pivoted in housings 14 on the arms 13. The steering swivels 16 are connected by the steering pivots 17 to the members 15. The curves described by the ends of the arms 20 are plotted, and the positions 21a, 22a found of the centres of circles which approximate to the curves, the transverse line 23 passing through these centres.