Abstract: An engine mount includes an upper and lower bracket bonded together by an elastomeric block which is made from a rubber material embedded with parallel graphite fibers. The elastomeric block has a higher shear strength in one horizontal direction as compared to a shear strength in its transverse horizontal direction to form an engine mount that has different shear strengths along different horizontal axes.

Abstract: A termination accumulator for a machine gun has a handling conveyor passing through a supply channel, a bypass channel, and a return channel. The supply channel leads to a feed system of a machine gun. The bypass channel has its other end connected to a return conveyor leading from the feed system. A gate is mounted at the junction of the bypass channel and supply channel operably between two positions, one position directs ammunition on the handling conveyor onto a supply conveyor leading to the feed system and a second position directs ammunition on the handling conveyor through the bypass channel. Upon release of a trigger mechanism operably connected to the gun, the gate moves from its first position to a second position such that the feed system continues its forward operation to clear itself of any live ammunition therein. The handling conveyor maintains a forward mode directing ammunition in to the bypass channel.

Abstract: A flexible steering wheel rim having an upper portion with a pair of arcuate leaf springs. Each leaf spring is mounted to a seat in the lower portion of the rim. The seat is interposed between the two leaf springs such that a gap is formed between the leaf springs which narrows as the leaf springs converge towards each other away from the seat.

Abstract: An evaporator is fabricated from metal pipes bundled together by cooling fins. The pipes have their ends embedded in a curable plastic securing them to a plastic collecting box. The collecting box has a distributing section with a plurality of injection orifices and return orifices flowing respectively into injection chambers and return flow chambers. The injection chambers merge into an injection collecting chamber and the return flow chambers merge into a return collecting chamber. A plastic connecting section has an integral injection pipe and return pipe and is connected to the distributor pipe by a tongue and groove connection sealably secured together by a curable plastic. The injection pipe and return flow pipe are in fluid communication with the injection collecting chamber and return collecting chamber respectively.

Abstract: A kingpin assembly provided with a sleeve with an angled aperture therethrough. The sleeve is rotatable within an aperture at the end of an axle. The angled aperture is sized to receive a kingpin. The ends of the kingpin are mounted to a spindle. Rotation of the sleeve angles the kingpin from its vertical normal position to provide positive or negative camber to the mounted spindle and mounted wheel thereon.

Abstract: A wheel assembly having an axle with two vertically spaced control arms pivotably mounted to two staggered arms of a spindle assembly. One arm of the spindle has an aperture receiving a rotatably mounted sleeve. The sleeve has an aperture therethrough which is eccentric with respect to the central axis of the sleeve. The eccentric aperture is constructed to receive a tapered ball stud integral with the ball mounted within a control arm. The ball stud extends through the aperture with a fastener threaded thereon to abut the sleeve and to draw a tapered section of the stud into the tapered aperture to expand the sleeve and to frictionally lock the sleeve within the aperture of the spindle. The sleeve when unlocked can be rotated to adjust the camber of the wheel assembly.

Abstract: A control valve having a cylinder mounted to a frame of a motor vehicle and a piston rod mounted to an axle of a motor vehicle for controlling the amount of air introduced to or exhausted from an air suspension spring mounted between the axle and frame of the motor vehicle. The piston rod is connected to a piston which is slidable within a cylinder. Three ports, a port leading to an air spring, an exhaust port, and a supply port extend through the side wall of the cylinder. A piston has a passage therethrough with one outlet at the top surface of the piston and a second outlet at a side surface of the piston. The piston is movable to three positions; one position with the supply port in communication through the passage, with the air spring port, a second position which all three ports are sealed from one another, and a third position in which the air spring port is in communication with the exhaust port.

Abstract: A sleeve assembly for adjusting the camber, and castor, or pneumatic trail, of a wheel assembly includes an inner sleeve with an aperture therethrough adapted to receive a ball stud. The inner sleeve having a partially spherical surface which is received in a complementary socket in a second sleeve which is fitted within an aperture of an upper arm of a spindle. The inner sleeve is pivotable with respect to the outer sleeve to incline the aperture therethrough with respect to the central axis of the outer sleeve such that the upper and lower openings of the aperture have opposite eccentricities with respect to the axis of the outer sleeve to angle the stud varying degrees with respect to the upper arm of the spindle.

Abstract: A vehicle suspension assembly has a spindle with lower and upper arms forming a yoke, a knuckle support portion of a front axle fitted between the lower and upper arms, a kingpin extending through aligned holes in the knuckle support and lower and upper arms, a bearing assembly between the knuckle support and lower arm, a plate with a threaded aperture affixed to the spindle and a bolt threaded through the plate and abutting the top end of the kingpin to push the knuckle against the bearing assembly to assure a flush fit without vertical play of the bearing assembly between the lower arm and knuckle support.

Abstract: A mounting device for a gun pod has a threaded bolt with a head fixed to an airplane wing. The threaded bolt engages a threaded aperture of an inner sleeve rotatably mounted in an aperture of a middle sleeve. The aperture of the middle sleeve is eccentric with respect to the axis of rotation thereof. The middle sleeve is rotatably mounted in an aperture through an outer sleeve. The aperture through the outer sleeve is also eccentrically positioned the same amount from the axis of the outer sleeve. The outer sleeve is rotatably mounted in a retainer mounted in an aperture in the gun pod. The gun pod is also pivotably mounted to the airplane wing at a position spaced from the mounting device such that adjustment of the mounting device adjusts the vertical and azimuth angles of the gun pod with respect to the wing.

Abstract: A carburetor having a primary and secondary induction passages with a primary and secondary throttle valve pivotably mounted respectively in these passages with a mechanical linkage between the primary and secondary throttle valve for opening the secondary throttle valve. A spring is mounted normally to close the secondary throttle valve when the primary throttle valve is moved to a closed position with the mechanical linkage constructed to close the secondary throttle valve when the primary throttle valve is moved toward a closed position when the spring refrains from closing the secondary throttle valve.

Abstract: A toggle catch for an automobile vent window and the like with a base, handle and an intermediate link pivotably connected to the base and handle. The handle has a pair of opposed spring biased latches which engage opposed flanges of a base portion of the toggle catch. The latches are manually operable to a disengaging position to allow the toggle catch to move to an open position. Upon closure of the toggle catch, the latches have prongs with camming surfaces which automatically bias the latch over the flanges until the prongs are under the flange and allowed to spring back to the engaged position to automatically lock the toggle catch in a closed and locked position.

Abstract: A fuel injector valve has a nozzle housing with a bore therethrough having an outlet end in communication with a cylinder of an internal combustion engine. The bore has a seating surface at its lower end which seats an annular ring. The annular ring has a central aperture therethrough with a seating surface at its lower open end. The aperture receives a plunger sized to leave a space between the edges of the aperture and the plunger surface. The plunger has a flanged lower section and is spring biased upwardly to have the flanged lower section contact the seating surface of the ring. The upward biasing force also forces the ring to abut the seating surface of the nozzle housing. The fluid under pressure enters the nozzle housing and forces the plunger and annular ring downward.