Abstract: A vehicle suspension link or attachment includes prefabricated and assembled elements comprising a bolt or stud assembly and retainer elements on each end. The stud or bolt assembly is mounted between two suspension elements and secured by the retainer assemblies to provide a rigid, spaced, shock-absorbing connection between components of a vehicle suspension system. The invention is used in one form as a connecting link between the end of a stabilizer bar or anti-sway bar and the movable mounting arms of the vehicle's independent suspension system. The stud type suspension link includes a single spacer element or a pair of spaced-apart spacer elements which are integrally molded on the stud.

Abstract: A parking brake assembly of the blind-cable-connection type including a backing plate containing an opening, a helical guide spring arranged to guide a flexible resilient inner cable member toward a ramp surface on a parking brake lever for the blind connection to the inner cable member to the lever, characterized in that the angle of inclination of the ramp surface relative to the cable axis is contained in a plane that is both parallel with the longitudinal axis of the lever and that is inclined at an acute angle relative to the axis of the inner cable member. This construction permits the parking brake lever to be simply and economically formed from a blank of flat metal stock, the cable-retaining slot being defined by a slot contained between bifurcated portions of the ramp surface. The helical guide spring includes portions having tightly wound turns, thereby to assist in connecting the spring with the backing plate and/or with the parking brake lever.

Abstract: A parking brake assembly of the blind-cable-connection type including a backing plate containing an opening, a helical guide spring arranged to guide a flexible resilient inner cable member toward a ramp surface on a parking brake lever for the blind connection to the inner cable member to the lever, characterized in that the angle of inclination of the ramp surface relative to the cable axis is contained in a plane that is both parallel with the longitudinal axis of the lever and that is inclined at an acute angle relative to the axis of the inner cable member. This construction permits the parking brake lever to be simply and economically formed from a blank of flat metal stock, the cable-retaining slot being defined by a slot contained between bifurcated portions of the ramp surface. The helical guide spring includes portions having tightly wound turns, thereby to assist in connecting the spring with the backing plate and/or with the parking brake lever.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for transferring workpieces, such as silicon wafers, between a pair of cassettes involve simultaneously and conjointly indexing the cassettes such that the cassettes are incrementally lowered as the individual workpieces are removed from one cassette and delivered to the other cassette. Such indexing of the cassettes is achieved by a single elevator mechanism adapted to support both of the cassettes such that they are vertically and horizontally offset relative to each other.