Method of and device for stabilizing crank axles with pneumatic cushioning

• US 3,085,817 A
• Filed: 08/07/1959
• Issued: 04/16/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/1959
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Friedrich Hubscher Rudolf, Georges Krause
• Original Assignee: Friedrich Hubscher Rudolf, Georges Krause
• Inventors: GEORGES KRAUSE, FRIEDRICH HUBSCHER RUDOLF
• Application Number:
  US03/832,398
• Time in Patent Office: 1,348 Days
• US Class Current: 280/5.508
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 11/64 having both torsion-bar springs and fluid springs
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 21/0556 including a releasable coupling B60G21/0555 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 2202/135 Stabiliser bar and/or tube
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 2202/152 Pneumatic spring
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 2202/42 Electric actuator

Claims

1. A STABILIZER FOR A VEHICLE HAVING A FRAME, WHEEL MEANS FOR CARRYING SAID FRAME, AND PNEUMATIC CUSHIONING MEANS FOR SAID FRAME AND WHEEL MEANS, COMPRISING IN COMBINATION, AT LEAST ONE PAIR OF LATERALLY SPACED AXIALLY ALIGNED HOLLOW CRANK AXLES ADAPTED TO BE SUPPORTED BY SAID FRAME AND EACH IN REGISTRY WITH ONE OF A PAIR OF OPPOSITELY ARRANGED WHEEL MEANS, A CONTINUOUS SHAFT EXTENDING INTERIORLY OF SAID HOLLOW CRANK AXLES AND ROTATABLY SUPPORTING SAID CRANK AXLES AND ADAPTED TO BE RIGIDLY SECURED TO SAID FRAME, DRUM MEANS ON THE ADJACENT INNER ENDS OF THE CRANK AXLES, AND MEANS INCLUDING A BAND BRAKE COOPERABLE WITH THE SAID DRUM MEANS OF SAID CRANK AXLES FOR COUPLING THE SAME RIGIDLY TO ONE ANOTHER DURING CORNERING OF SAID VEHICLE, SAID CRANK AXLES IN THEIR COUPLED CONDITION BEING TORSIONALLY RIGID TO REDUCE VEHICLE TILT IN ORDER TO STABILIZE SAID VEHICLE.