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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1992
Filed:
Jul. 14, 1989
James L Srch, Clarendon Hills, IL (US);
Robert L Cadden, Parkdale, AU;
The Boler Company, Itasca, IL (US);
Abstract
Suspension adjustment for a suspension for a vehicle having a chassis frame and at least one pair of opposed transport wheels on opposite sides of the fore-and-aft axis of the vehicle, an axle extending between the wheels of each pair, the suspension including a pair of spring hangers attached to each opposite side of the chassis frame, and a leaf spring assembly on each side of the chassis frame interconnecting each pair of spring hangers with opposite ends of the axle in resilient load transfer relationship, each leaf spring assembly having a leaf spring with a spring eye at one end and a spring pin extending through the spring eye and through an aperture in an aperture providing formation rigidly secured to the one of the spring hangers to which the end of the leaf with the spring eye is interconnected, and mechanism for adjusting the fore-and-aft position of at least one end of an axle, the axle end adjusting mechanism comprising a first fastener adjustably fastening a spring hanger associated with an adjustable axle end in a plurality of fore-and-aft positions on the chassis frame, and/or a second fastener adjustably fastening an aperture-providing formation associated with an adjustable axle end in a plurality of fore-and-aft positions on the spring hanger associated with the adjustable axle end.