Abstract:
Seat comprising deformable elastic padding which consists of blocks of elastic material which are juxtaposed to each other but are connected to each other only to the extent that their bases are connected to a common flexible mounting sheet.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a doorstop means particularly for a motor vehicle, and in which a draw rod is articulated at one end to the door upright by means of a pin that is substantially parallel to and spaced from the hinge pin and the door itself. The other end of the draw rod carries a finger movable in a slotted member secured to the door, the slot running parallel to the door plane but branching into two extensions of the end nearest the hinge pins, one extension curving inwardly towards the door but the other extension extending substantially perpendicularly to the door to form a catch in which the finger on the draw rod engages to lock the door in a fully open or an intermediate position.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a bumper constituted at least by one central element and two stops, each comprising a reinforcement rigidly fixed to the central element, wherein the reinforcement of each stop is rigidly fixed to a movable panel articulated to a rigid frame, while the reinforcement is in abutment on the frame when the panel is in closed position with respect to said frame.
Abstract:
A road vehicle has head lamps pivotally mounted to illuminate the road round a curve as the vehicle moves into the curve. The lamps are also pivotal about horizontal axes to compensate for relative height of the vehicle structure at the front and the rear and also to compensate for roll. In a modification a device sensitive to acceleration or deceleration is also effective to maintain the lamp beams in a preset horizontal plane irrespective of the acceleration or deceleration.
Abstract:
A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COMPOSITE BODIES COMPRISING MAKING A FIRST PART FROM CAST IRON CONTAINING SPHEROIDAL GRAPHITE AND A SECOND PAR FROM SELF-HARDENING CAST IRON, CASTING ONE OF THE PARTS IN OR ON THE OTHER PART AND APPLYING HEAT TO THE COMBINATION OF THE TWO PARTS.
Abstract:
A steering column gear-change linkage is capable of accommodating adjustments in two perpendicular directions of a steering column which is telescopic. A support arrangement movable with respect to a fixed support, such as an automobile scuttle incorporates slides having slots extending in said two perpendicular directions. Movement in a vertical plane about a pivot axis is accommodated at a position remote from the steering column head by a slide cooperating with splines on a control tube, angular movement about the longitudinal axis of which is effected by a control lever. The slide is rigid with a lever connected by a linkage with the gearbox. Movement of the control lever axially of the control tube serves to control the gearbox selector rods through a rod coaxial with the control tube and a bowden cable.