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A New Flexible Engine Mounting

14th April 1933, Page 48
14th April 1933
Page 48
Page 48, 14th April 1933 — A New Flexible Engine Mounting
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pRIMARILY for Mounting compression-ignition engines in commercialvehicle chassis, a fitting, described as the Paynter Buoyant Power Suspension flexible mounting, has been• developed by the Forth Engine and Motor Works (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), Ltd., Pottery Lane, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It is, of course, equally suitable for the suspension of other types of power unit, and for aeronautical, railway and mariae work, in addition to the purpose named above.

The accompanying illustration explains the construction of the fitting, which consists of a split housing containing a block of resilient material, having a spherical exterior and carrying internally a trunnion provided with an end plate. Brackets are incorporated by which the component may be attached to the frame and power unit B34 or sub-frame. Adjustment of the 'degree of resilience is possible, and universal flexibility is afforded, Various modifications -of the design of fixings for different types of chassis and for central forward mounting are available, but all employ the same principle and fundamental construction.

A point the inventor of the device stresses is that the mountings for different engines demand different compression adjustments, and that on the same engine it is necessary that the permissible flexion at one point of suspension should be less or greater than that at another, in order to afford perfed absorption of vibration.

With the Paynter system it is only a matter of turning with a spanner the two adjusting nuts to regulate the degree of resilience, and so to find the best possible setting.

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