GB482650A - Improvements in and relating to small motor vehicles - Google Patents

Abstract

482,650. Bodies and spring-suspensions for vehicles; laminated springs. STEYRDAIMLER-PUCH AKT.-GES. July 27,1936, No. 20795. Convention date, Nov. 6, 1935. [Classes 108 (i), 108 (ii), and 108 (iii)] [Also in Groups XXXI and XIV] In a motor vehicle, a body without a separate chassis frame is carried by a floor plate 24 reinforced by a longitudinal hollow girder member 2 resistant to bending and torsion and extending beyond the centres of the front wheels, the extension carrying the engine unit. The extension preferably comprises a fork 26 in which the engine 5 and gear-box 6 are mounted between upper and lower transverse leaf springs or other wheel supporting members. A propeller shaft extends through the hollow girder member to a rear axle gear casing 8 with a flanged attachment to the girder member preferably through the intermediary of a transverse bearer plate 7. A front transverse bearer plate 9 straddling the fork 26, an intermediate transverse supporting member 10 and a sliding roof 11 are also provided. Specification 452,919, [Group XXXI], is referred to. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 comprises also transverse suspension springs, Fig. 6 (Cancelled), wherein, in each composite spring, two of the leaves are connected to pins 19, 20, in such manner that in normal operation the spring is supported by the leaf engaging the pins 19, the leaf connected to the pins 20 only coming into operation when the main leaf breaks. This subjectmatter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.