Messerschmitt-bolkow-blohm Gesellschaft MIT Beschrankter Haftung

Rudolf Konig

Klaus Brunsch

Ernst-Gunter Haase

In forming a connecting element for use in introducing forces into a strural part, a continuous roving is removed from a source of supply, impregnated with a synthetic resin, and guided over a rotatable disk. Extending outwardly from each of the opposing faces of the disk is a removable bush. The roving is wound in layers on each face of the disk in an alternating manner. During the winding operation, as the disk rotates, the roving is secured in a recess on the circumferential periphery of the disk then it moves across one face of the disk into contact with the bush on that face and finally is secured in another recess spaced angularly from the previous recess. At this time the roving is displaced in the axial direction of the bushes toward the other face of the disk and the winding operation is repeated on the other face. By repeating these operations a multiple number of layers are displaced on each face of the disk. When the winding is completed, the roving is cut around the cicumferential periphery of the disk so that a connecting element including the wound sections of the roving and the bush is removed from each face of the disk. The connecting element is then secured to a structural part or stored for subsequent use.

Connecting element for introducing forces into a structural part

In a shock absorber assembly for a vehicle, a closed flexible hollow body mounted on a rigid support member, such as a part of the vehicle understructure, and a highly compressible fluid medium, for instance air, is filled into the hollow body. Another rigid support member of closed hollow construction is mounted against the opposite side of the hollow body from the support member on the vehicle understructure. The hollow support member can be lined interiorly with a closed bladder-like member and connected by a throttling member to the hollow body to act as an equalizing member when the hollow body is compressed by shock forces. As an alternative, two similar shock absorber assemblies can be spaced apart on a vehicle with each including one of the closed flexible hollow bodies and with the throttling member connected between the hollow bodies in the separate shock absorber assemblies.

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Rudolf Konig