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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1987
Filed:
Mar. 07, 1985
David C Barker, Oak Park, MI (US);
David L Wrobleski, Fraser, MI (US);
Richard A Nix, Utica, MI (US);
Keith V Leigh-Monstevens, Troy, MI (US);
Automotive Products plc, Warwickshire, GB;
Abstract
Improvement in a hydraulic control apparatus for actuating a remotely located mechanism having a shipping and installation restraining strap for an actuator having a housing and a linearly moveable output member projecting from the front end of the housing, the strap being non-elastic and rupturable and having a part thereof engageable with the free end of the output member and another part projecting rearwardly toward the rear end of the housing, the improvement comprising an elastic anchor arrangement for the restraining strap to allow full extension thereof without rupture thereof, a stop and positioning arrangement for the elastic anchor arrangement which predetermines the retracted position in which the output member is yieldably held, and an override arrangement to selectively debar functioning of the elastic anchor arrangement whenever it is intended to rupture the restraining strap.