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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 29, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michel Gautheron, Nevers, FR;
Assignee:
Caoutchouc Manufacture et Plastiques, Versailles, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2671417 ; 2671412 ; 267293 ;
Abstract
Elastic support including at least two coaxial cylindrical sleeves (10, 20) linked together by an elastic material (3) in compression, the compression of the elastic material (3) being obtained by modifying the length of the midline of the cross section of one of said sleeves (10) in the direction which brings radially closer together the midlines of the cross sections of the two adjacent sleeves (10, 20); the sleeve (10) whose midline is modified has prepositioned longitudinal folds (11) uniformly distributed on the periphery.