US3101626A - Overhead-camshaft rocker-arm - Google Patents

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US3101626A US67774A US6777460A US3101626A US 3101626 A US3101626 A US 3101626A US 67774 A US67774 A US 67774A US 6777460 A US6777460 A US 6777460A US 3101626 A US3101626 A US 3101626A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01L—CYCLICALLY OPERATING VALVES FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES
    • F01L1/00—Valve-gear or valve arrangements, e.g. lift-valve gear
    • F01L1/12—Transmitting gear between valve drive and valve
    • F01L1/18—Rocking arms or levers
    • F01L1/185—Overhead end-pivot rocking arms
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16H—GEARING
    • F16H53/00—Cams or cam-followers, e.g. rollers for gearing mechanisms
    • F16H53/06—Cam-followers
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01L—CYCLICALLY OPERATING VALVES FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES
    • F01L1/00—Valve-gear or valve arrangements, e.g. lift-valve gear
    • F01L1/12—Transmitting gear between valve drive and valve
    • F01L1/18—Rocking arms or levers
    • F01L2001/187—Clips, e.g. for retaining rocker arm on pivot
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  • the present invention relates to valve gears of internal combustion engines, of the type comprising a single camshaft mounted in the cylinder head, according to the socalled overhead-camshaft disposal.
  • This invention is concerned more particularly to the arrangement and design of the valve-actuating rocker arms.
  • the present invention relates to a device for the control of valves by an overhead camshaft and comprises an intermediate rocker arm having one end that engages the valve and having at its other end a swivel joint constituted of two elements, one element being carried by the rocker arm and the other element, which constitutes the female element of the swivel joint, forming a support [for the one element, the device further comprises a spring mounted for engagement with said support-forming element and in engagement with said rocker arm at a point intermediate of the length thereof to urge it in valve engaging position and ensure the guiding of said rocker arm in operation.
  • Such described arrangement is advantageous not only on account of its constructional simplicity but also because it promotes :on the one hand the lubrication of the swivel joint due to the accumulation of oil in the female element of the joint while preserving the facility of valve adjustment.
  • FIGURES 1 and 2 are respectively a part-sectional, part-elevational side view and a plane view from above of a valve lgear disposal for an overhead-camshaft according to a first embodiment of the present invention
  • FIGURE 3 is a view similar to FIG. 1 (with a detail shown in plane view from above) in connection with another form of embodiment of the device tor holding and guiding the rocker arm, and
  • FIGURE 4 is another modified embodiment utilizing a cylindrical swivel joint.
  • the arrangement comprises an overheadcamshaft 1, and a cylinder head 2.
  • the rocker arm 3 for actuating the valve 4 is mounted as follows: it bears with one end against the valve shank and has screwed through its other end a screw-threaded rod 5 formed with a lower swivel-joint head 6 :of part-spherical configuration.
  • a nut and lock-nut system 7 engages the upper end of rod 5 and bears against the upper face of the relevant end of the rocker arm.
  • the part-spherical head 6 is adapted to swivel in a correspondingly shaped cavity formed in a female joint element 8 secured for example by fitting in the upper surface of the cylinder head 2.
  • a spring wire 9 of substantially hairpin configuration is threaded on the rocker arm to urge same in the valveengaging position.
  • the sides of the spring extend through the upper portion of the femal joint element 8 and engage a pair of parallel ⁇ grooves 10 formed in the rod 5 above the par spherical head 6.
  • the hairpin spring 9 holds the rocker arm 3 in line arm, as shown.
  • valve play is taken up by the resilient pressure exerted by the two ends of the hairpin spring on the aforesaid pair-oi? lateral pins 11 and 11'.
  • FIG. 1 shows in dotted lines the rocker arm in the valve-actuating position.
  • the hairpin spring is replaced with a blade spring of loop configuration, wherein one arm is clamped between the upper face of the rocker arm and the nut 7, the other arm being clamped at its inner end between the upper surface 2 of the cylinder head and the female joint element 8, and formed with a fork-like extension 13 of which the prongs extend on either side of the rocker arm for guiding same.
  • These prongs also engage the projecting ends 11 of a pin on either side of the rocker arm.
  • a bent log 14 engages a hole formed [for obvious purposes in the top of the cylinder head, as shown.
  • FIGURE 4 illustrates another arrangement whereinthe rocker arm 3 is formed with an integral cylindrical swivel portion 15 pivoting about its axis in a [female bearing 16 slidably fitted in the cylinder head.
  • Adjusting shims 17 may be provided for properly adscope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.
  • a device for the control of valves by an overhead camshaft comprising an intermediate rocker arm having one end that engages the valve and having at its other end a swivel joint constituted of two elements, element one being carried :by the rocker arm and the other element forming a support therefor, said device further comprising a spring mounted tor engagement with said support forming element and in engagement with said rocker arm at a point intermediate of the length thereof to urge it in valve-engaging poistion and ensure the guiding of said rocker arm in operation.
  • a device in which said spring is also in engagement with the swivel element that is carried by the rocker arm.
  • a device in which said swivel element carried by the rocker arm comprises a threaded pin which is screwed through the rocker arm to permit the adjustment of the device.
  • a device in which the spring is a hairpin spring having two legs, said female support forming element having two parallel passages receiving the two legs of said hairpin spring, said two legs enclosing the rocker arm to the point of engagement therewith, whereas the other swivel element carried by the rocker arm and constituting the male element of the swivel joint is engaged and held captive in said female element between the legs of said spring.
  • a device comprising a support for the attachment of said swivel element, in which said spring is a blade spring of loop con-figuration wherein one upper arm is fixed between the rocker arm and said swivel element carried thereby, and a lower arm is fixed between said support forming element and said support, said last 7.
  • the lower arm of the spring comprises a bent log that engages a hole in said support.
  • a device for the control of valves by anoverhead camshaft comprising an intermediate [rocker arm having opposing ends, one of said ends being adapted to engage the valve, a supporting swivel joint at the other end, said swivel joint being constituted of two elements, one element being carried by the rocker arm and the other element constituting the female element of the swivel joint and forming a support for the one element, s-aid device turther comprising a spring mounted t'or engagement with 15 4 said support forming element and also being in engagement with the swivel element that is carried by the rocker arm and in engagement with the rocker arm at a point intermediate of the dength thereof to ensure the guiding of said rocker arm in operation.

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Aug. 27, 1963 1.' PRAs 3,101,626
OVERHEAD-CAMSHAFT ROCKER-ARM Fild Nov. 7, 1960 FIG .4
,r In van 201- I I Lucian Pe ras United States Patent Office 3,101,626 Patented Aug. 27,, 1963 3,101,626 OVERHEAD-CAMSHAFT ROCKER-ARM Lucien Pras, Billancourt, France, assignor to Regie Nationale des Usines Renault, Billancourt, France Filed Nov. 7, 1960, Ser. No. 67,774 Claims priority, application France Nov. 13, 1959 8 Claims. (Cl. 74559) The present invention relates to valve gears of internal combustion engines, of the type comprising a single camshaft mounted in the cylinder head, according to the socalled overhead-camshaft disposal.
This invention is concerned more particularly to the arrangement and design of the valve-actuating rocker arms.
More particularly, the present invention relates to a device for the control of valves by an overhead camshaft and comprises an intermediate rocker arm having one end that engages the valve and having at its other end a swivel joint constituted of two elements, one element being carried by the rocker arm and the other element, which constitutes the female element of the swivel joint, forming a support [for the one element, the device further comprises a spring mounted for engagement with said support-forming element and in engagement with said rocker arm at a point intermediate of the length thereof to urge it in valve engaging position and ensure the guiding of said rocker arm in operation.
Such described arrangement is advantageous not only on account of its constructional simplicity but also because it promotes :on the one hand the lubrication of the swivel joint due to the accumulation of oil in the female element of the joint while preserving the facility of valve adjustment.
In order to afford a clearer understanding of the present invention and of the manner in which the same may be carried out in practice, reference will now be made to the accompanying drawing illustrating diagrammatically by way of example different [forms of embodiment of the invention.
In the drawing:
FIGURES 1 and 2 are respectively a part-sectional, part-elevational side view and a plane view from above of a valve lgear disposal for an overhead-camshaft according to a first embodiment of the present invention;
FIGURE 3 is a view similar to FIG. 1 (with a detail shown in plane view from above) in connection with another form of embodiment of the device tor holding and guiding the rocker arm, and
FIGURE 4 is another modified embodiment utilizing a cylindrical swivel joint. I
Referring to the drawing and more particularly to FIGS. 1 and 2, the arrangement comprises an overheadcamshaft 1, and a cylinder head 2. The rocker arm 3 for actuating the valve 4 is mounted as follows: it bears with one end against the valve shank and has screwed through its other end a screw-threaded rod 5 formed with a lower swivel-joint head 6 :of part-spherical configuration. A nut and lock-nut system 7 engages the upper end of rod 5 and bears against the upper face of the relevant end of the rocker arm. The part-spherical head 6 is adapted to swivel in a correspondingly shaped cavity formed in a female joint element 8 secured for example by fitting in the upper surface of the cylinder head 2.
A spring wire 9 of substantially hairpin configuration is threaded on the rocker arm to urge same in the valveengaging position. The sides of the spring extend through the upper portion of the femal joint element 8 and engage a pair of parallel \grooves 10 formed in the rod 5 above the par spherical head 6.
The hairpin spring 9 holds the rocker arm 3 in line arm, as shown.
The valve play is taken up by the resilient pressure exerted by the two ends of the hairpin spring on the aforesaid pair-oi? lateral pins 11 and 11'.
FIG. 1 shows in dotted lines the rocker arm in the valve-actuating position.
In the alternate embodiment of FIG. 3 the hairpin spring is replaced with a blade spring of loop configuration, wherein one arm is clamped between the upper face of the rocker arm and the nut 7, the other arm being clamped at its inner end between the upper surface 2 of the cylinder head and the female joint element 8, and formed with a fork-like extension 13 of which the prongs extend on either side of the rocker arm for guiding same. These prongs also engage the projecting ends 11 of a pin on either side of the rocker arm. At the root of these prongs 13' a bent log 14 engages a hole formed [for obvious purposes in the top of the cylinder head, as shown.
FIGURE 4 illustrates another arrangement whereinthe rocker arm 3 is formed with an integral cylindrical swivel portion 15 pivoting about its axis in a [female bearing 16 slidably fitted in the cylinder head.
Adjusting shims 17 may be provided for properly adscope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.
I claim:
l. A device for the control of valves by an overhead camshaft comprising an intermediate rocker arm having one end that engages the valve and having at its other end a swivel joint constituted of two elements, element one being carried :by the rocker arm and the other element forming a support therefor, said device further comprising a spring mounted tor engagement with said support forming element and in engagement with said rocker arm at a point intermediate of the length thereof to urge it in valve-engaging poistion and ensure the guiding of said rocker arm in operation.
2. A device according to claim 1 in which the support forming element constitutes a female element of the swivel joint. I
3. A device according to claim 1 in which said spring is also in engagement with the swivel element that is carried by the rocker arm.
4. A device according to claim 1 in which said swivel element carried by the rocker arm comprises a threaded pin which is screwed through the rocker arm to permit the adjustment of the device.
5. A device according to claim 2 in which the spring is a hairpin spring having two legs, said female support forming element having two parallel passages receiving the two legs of said hairpin spring, said two legs enclosing the rocker arm to the point of engagement therewith, whereas the other swivel element carried by the rocker arm and constituting the male element of the swivel joint is engaged and held captive in said female element between the legs of said spring.
6. A device according to claim 3 comprising a support for the attachment of said swivel element, in which said spring is a blade spring of loop con-figuration wherein one upper arm is fixed between the rocker arm and said swivel element carried thereby, and a lower arm is fixed between said support forming element and said support, said last 7. A device-according to claim 6 in which the lower arm of the spring comprises a bent log that engages a hole in said support.
8. A device for the control of valves by anoverhead camshaft comprising an intermediate [rocker arm having opposing ends, one of said ends being adapted to engage the valve, a supporting swivel joint at the other end, said swivel joint being constituted of two elements, one element being carried by the rocker arm and the other element constituting the female element of the swivel joint and forming a support for the one element, s-aid device turther comprising a spring mounted t'or engagement with 15 4 said support forming element and also being in engagement with the swivel element that is carried by the rocker arm and in engagement with the rocker arm at a point intermediate of the dength thereof to ensure the guiding of said rocker arm in operation.
References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,699,657 Pagan Ian. 22, 1929 1,984,198 Notter Dec. 11, 1934 2,226,985 Spencer Dec. 31, 1940 2,955,581 Fedak Oct. 11, 1960 FOREIGN PATENTS 1,023,267 Germany Jan. 23, 1958

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1. A DEVICE FOR THE CONTROL OF VALVES BY AN OVERHEAD CAMSHAFT COMPRISING AN INTERMEDIATE ROCKER ARM HAVING ONE END THAT ENGAGES THE VALVE AND HAVING AT ITS OTHER END A SWIVEL JOINT CONSTITUTED OF TWO ELEMENTS, ELEMENT ONE BEING CARRIED BY THE ROCKER ARM AND THE OTHER ELEMENT FORMING A SUPPORT THEREFOR, SAID DEVICE FURTHER COMPRISING A SPRING MOUNTED FOR ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID SUPPORT FORMING ELEMENT AND IN ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID ROCKER ARM AT A POINT INTERMEDIATE OF THE LENGTH THEREOF TO URGE IT
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US1699657A (en) * 1926-07-30 1929-01-22 John T Fagan Rocker arm and rocker-arm assembly
US1984198A (en) * 1930-12-05 1934-12-11 Harry L Notter Valve operating device
US2226985A (en) * 1939-05-09 1940-12-31 Louis R Spencer Valve actuating mechanism
DE1023267B (en) * 1955-10-20 1958-01-23 Porsche Kg Internal combustion engine with vertical valves
US2955581A (en) * 1959-06-19 1960-10-11 Fedak Elmer Valve rocker arm guide

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US1984198A (en) * 1930-12-05 1934-12-11 Harry L Notter Valve operating device
US2226985A (en) * 1939-05-09 1940-12-31 Louis R Spencer Valve actuating mechanism
DE1023267B (en) * 1955-10-20 1958-01-23 Porsche Kg Internal combustion engine with vertical valves
US2955581A (en) * 1959-06-19 1960-10-11 Fedak Elmer Valve rocker arm guide

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