Pivotable motor with mounting pin

• US 4,503,792 A
• Filed: 09/09/1983
• Issued: 03/12/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: SSMC, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Singer PLC (Hayleys Plc)
• Inventors: Cook, Albert N.
• Primary Examiner(s): Leppink, James A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US06/530,911
• Time in Patent Office: 550 Days
• Field of Search: 112/220, 474/114, 474/133, 474/135, 248/634, 248/635, 248/610, 248/665, 248/666, 248/656
• US Class Current: 112/220
• CPC Class Codes: D05B 69/12 using rotary electric motors

Abstract

A sewing machine motor is provided with an elongate pin which is affixed in the end portions of the arms of sheet metal motor end brackets, and which is pivotally mounted in frame affixed resilient end blocks to enable the motor to be adjusted about the axis of the pin for the purpose of altering tension in a belt driven by the motor.

Claims

1. In a sewing machine, an electric motor including sheet metal end brackets with integral parallel arms;

a frame extending over the motor including a pair of depending bosses;

an elongate pin extending between and supported in end portions of the parallel arms on the end brackets, the pin extending parallel to the motor shaft and including opposite end portions which project beyond the end portions of said parallel arms;

a resilient block wherein one of the end portions of the pin is supported;

another resilient block wherein the other end portion of the pin is supported;

clamps secured to said bosses and in enforced engagement with the resilient blocks for affixing the blocks in the frame;

a power transmission belt in the machine drivable by the motor; and

means for pivoting the motor about the axis of said pin to effect a tension adjustment in the belt.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein the pin is located in holes in the arm end portions with a resilient ring on the pin adjacent one end portion and a knurled formation on the pin adjacent the other end portion.

3. The combination of claim 1 wherein the pin is staked against each of end portions of the bracket arms.

4. The combination of claim 1 wherein the pin is secured with an adhesive to each of the end portions of the bracket arms.

5. The combination of claim 1 wherein the means for pivoting the motor about the axis of said pin to effect a tension adjustment in the belt includes a threaded stud which is secured in the frame, and a nut which is adjustable on the stud and has a flange in engagement with a tab on one of the end brackets at a location apart from the axis of the pin.

6. The combination of claim 5 wherein the nut includes a rectangular portion which extends through a rectangular opening in said tab, and the flange engages the tab on the opposite side from the rectangular portion of the nut.