Patent ID: 6511037
Filing Date: 2003-01-28
Classification: B60G,B61F,F16F

Abstract:
An elastomeric mounting comprising two rigid end members maintained spaced apart by an intervening tubular body of elastomeric material which defines a central chamber, characterised in that it comprises a substantially inextensible connecting means arranged to extend through said central chamber to interconnect said end members and resist more than a predetermined separation of the end members, one of the rigid end members having a cavity member associated therewith and arranged to lie within the axial length of the mounting between the end members to define a location cavity, said one of the rigid end members having a substantially planar axially outwardly facing contact surface, a chain half link positionable in said location cavity captively to engage an end region of the inextensible connecting means and transmit force to the cavity member when the connection means is loaded in tension, said cavity member being adapted to prevent or restrain relative rotation between the cavity member and the chain half link and having an inwardly facing frusto-conical surface for engagement by said chain half link, said contact surface of an end member being adapted in use to be secured to one of two members to be interconnected by the mounting and said one of two members serving to provide an abutment surface which prevents the chain half link displacing to a position at which it ceases to captively engage an end region of the inextensible connecting means.