Patent GB-714631-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to vehicle springing
IPC: B60B9/00
Filed: 1952-03-03
Abstract: 714,631. Motor vehicles. DAIMLER-BENZ AKT.-GES. March 3, 1952 [March 3, 1951] No. 5571/52. Classes 79(2) and 79(3) [Also in Group XXXII] A vehicle springing system comprises the combination of road wheel hub springing acting in the plane of a respective wheel between the felloe and hub of the latter and supplementary springing due to resilient mounting means between the wheel axle and the vehicle frame. In the arrangement according to Fig. 1 in which hub springing A1 A2 is provided on front and rear wheels a1, a2, a front axle b1 is connected to a frame c through a resilient mounting B1. In another arrangement, Fig. 2, a rear axle b2 is connected to the frame c through resilient mountings C2 located forwardly of the axle, the arrangement permitting movement of the axle about an axis transversely of the vehicle. In other arrangements, Figs. 3-7 (not shown), the front axle of the Fig. 2 arrangement is provided with the mounting B1 of the Fig. 1 arrangement; both axles are provided with the mounting of the Fig. 1 arrangement and one or both axles are provided with a combination of the mountings of the Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 arrangements. In the arrangement according to Fig. 9, in which wheels provided with hub springing A are driven through a differential gearing 25 in a housing 24, rubber rings D are secured between a rigid axle housing b and the vehicle frame. In another arrangement, Fig. 10, in which a rear axle b2 is driven by an engine-gear box unit 27, the latter is connected through a resilient mounting B2 to a thrust member d2 which is itself resiliently journaled in mountings C2 on the vehicle frame C. A front axle b1 is connected to the frame through resilient mountings D1. In a somewhat similar arrangement, Fig. 11 (not shown), the unit 27 is disposed rearwardly of the axle b2 and is resiliently connected forwardly of the axle to transversely extending members which are journaled in resilient mountings connecting the members to the frame. In the arrangement according to Fig. 12 (not shown), an engine-gear box unit is resiliently connected to a front axle which is itself connected to the vehicle frame through thrust links journaled in resilient mountings on an axis transversely of the frame. The rear axle is driven from the engine through a shaft and rear axle gearing the latter also being resiliently mounted about a longitudinal axis to forwardly extending thrust links journaled in resilient mountings on an axis transversely of the vehicle frame. The respective connections between the shaft and the engine and rear axle gearing are disposed on the same axis of rotation as that of the respective mountings connecting the links to the frame. In the arrangement according to Fig. 13, parts 37 and 39 of front and rear axles b1 and b2 respectively are resiliently connected to a vehicle frame C and parts 36 and 38 support front and rear wheels, the latter being driven through axle shafts 42 from a driving unit 40 resiliently mounted on the rear axle b2. The parts 36, 37 and 38, 39 may be pressings. In a further arrangement, Fig. 14 (not shown) with an engine mounting similar to that of the Fig. 12 arrangement, the rigid rear axle is mounted resiliently about an axis transversely of a resiliently mounted rear thrust link, which constitutes a supplementary frame which may be used to support the rear part of the vehicle body.