Patent GB-1099841-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to anti-vibration mountings
Inventor: GOODWIN AUBREY JOHN HUTCHINSON
IPC: F16F9/04
Filed: 1963-07-12
Abstract: 1,099,841. Anti-vibration mountings. YARROW & CO. Ltd. July 7, 1964 [July 12, 1963], No. 27827/63. Addition to 1,064,671. Heading F2S. A body B is resiliently supported on a base S by means of a flexible pneumatic bellows 3 made of rubber or metal and sandwiched between upper and lower rigid members 4, 5, a spool-type control valve 2 regulating the pressure of the fluid in the bellows 3 according to the loading of the body B, by means of connecting pipes 17, 20 and an isolating unit 18 with a restrictor 19 and a duct 21. The control valve comprises a spool 8 with upper and lower parts 12, 14 which normally close off liquid pressure supply and exhaust grooves 9a, 11a in a cylindrical valve chamber 6 and which are connected by a reduced intermediate portion 13 providing an annular space within the chamber 6 having a port 10 for the pipe 17. A pump unit, not shown, is connected to a pipe 15 leading to the groove 9a, the groove 11a having an exhaust pipe connection 16 opening into a liquid reservoir, not shown, for the pump. A diaphragm 22 in the isolation unit 18 separates the pump liquid from the pneumatic fluid. With no variation in the constant force applied to the body B the setting of the control valve 2 remains such that the port 10 is not in communication with either the supply or exhaust pipe 15, 16. The impedance of the isolating unit and the restriction 19 isolate the liquid in the system from pressure fluctuations that occur in the gas as the result of high frequency vibrations of the body B. Increase or decrease of the constant force applied to the body B causes a corresponding opening of the grooves 9a or 11a so that fluid is either introduced into, or exhausted from, the valve chamber 6 to raise or lower the body until it regains its position of equilbrium when both grooves 9a, 11a are closed. In a modification, Fig. 4, a supply of gas under pressure is either supplied to or withdrawn from cylinder compartments 34, 36 on either side of a piston 28 through constrictors 33, 35 in adjacent isolating chambers 31, 32 which are connected to a spool valve 26 supplied with gas under pressure and having specially-shaped slots 46, 47, 48 to provide the correct degree of sensitivity. In a further modification, Fig. 11, an isolating chamber 77 is formed inner and outer cylindrical members 61, 60 connected together by a diaphragm 69, the inner member 61 forming a movable barrier which separates the hydraulic fluid, supplied through a bore 79 in the base 58, from the gas in the isolator chamber 77. The latter communicates with a pneumatic spring 74, defined by a diaphragm which connects the cylindrical member 60 with the body B, through a restrictor orifice 78. Under normal operating conditions the inner cylindrical member 61 is approximately at the mid-point of its track on an upstanding portion of a base 58. Should the pneumatic spring fail the inner cylindrical member 61 will gradually rise so that the mounting acts entirely hydraulically. A further embodiment, generally of the kind shown in Fig. 11, is described, the inner cylindrical member and the rolling membrane 69 being replaced by a flexible diaphragm.