A traditional semi-elliptical Hotchkiss leaf spring arrangement. On the left, the spring is connected to the frame through a shackle.
A leaf spring is a simple form of spring commonly used for suspension in wheeled vehicles. Originally called a laminated or carriage spring, and sometimes referred to as a semi-elliptical spring, elliptical spring, or cart spring, it is one of the oldest forms of vehicle suspension. A leaf spring is one or more narrow, arc-shaped, thin plates that are attached to the axle and chassis in a way that allows the leaf spring to flex vertically in response to irregularities in the road surface. Lateral leaf springs are the most commonly used arrangement, running the length of the vehicle and mounted perpendicular to the wheel axle, but numerous examples of transverse leaf springs exist as well.
Leaf springs can serve multiple suspension functions: location, springing, and to some extent damping as well, through interleaf friction. However, this friction is not well controlled, resulting in stiction and irregular suspension motions. For this reason, some manufacturers have used mono-leaf springs.
A leafspring is a simple form of spring commonly used for suspension in wheeled vehicles. Originally called a laminated or carriage spring, and sometimes...
A Corvette leafspring is a type of independent suspension that utilizes a fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) mono-leafspring instead of more conventional...
the spring only acts as a spring member. The AC Cobra is an example of a transverse, multi-leaf steel spring suspension that uses the leafspring as the...
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Multi-leafsprings are widely used for the suspension of cars, trucks and railway wagons. A multi-leafspring consists of a series of flat plates, usually...
Transverse leafspring front suspension is a type of automotive front suspension, whose usage is most well known in Ford Motor Company products from 1908...
build up the leafsprings is by using an add-a-leaf. This is done by inserting an extra leaf into the vehicle's leaf pack. Using the add-a-leaf will increase...
approximately 1750, leafsprings began appearing on certain types of carriage, such as the Landau. By the middle of the 19th century, elliptical springs might additionally...
rack and pinion steering while still using transverse leafspring suspension (with the leafspring doubling as the upper suspension link). The new car entered...
resistance. Spring-based shock absorbers commonly use coil springs or leafsprings, though torsion bars are used in torsional shocks as well. Ideal springs alone...
principle remains the same. The metal spring (coil or leaf) is removed, and an air bag, also referred to as an air spring, is inserted or fabricated to fit...
rear-leafspring suspension, while the GMT820/830 SUV models used a five-link coil-spring suspension. (The 2500 series GMT830 SUV models retained a leaf spring...
split lengthwise and splayed slightly, a tip of four leafsprings, a cylinder with a single leafspring on one side, a bundle of stiff wire, a central pin...
the Wrangler TJ onwards, all Wranglers were fitted with coil-spring instead of leaf-spring suspension, the automatic shifter was relocated to the floor...
than the liner acts like the leafspring/lock bar. Another variation, known as the inset Linerlock has the leafspring embedded into the plastic scales...
material (as in a Tic Tac box's lid). Leafspring: LeafSprings are commonly used in vehicle suspensions. Leafsprings are an example of a flexure system...
Hotchkiss drive is the fact that the axle housing is firmly attached to the leafsprings to transfer the axle torque through them to the car body. Also, it uses...
neither proposal was adopted, and Krupp instead equipped it with a simple leafspring double-bogie suspension, with eight rubber-rimmed roadwheels per side...
immune to peach leaf curl (instead, the major apricot diseases are blossom wilt and branch dieback caused by Monilinia fructicola in the spring and Eutypa...
tank designs. It allowed considerably longer movement than conventional leafspring systems then in common use, which allowed his tanks to have considerably...
the Adell and Starrett patent, but with a coil spring to return the sliding block rather than a leafspring, but a more involved scheme to slide the block...
Ram. It is a conventional design with body-on-frame construction and a leafspring/live axle rear end. The Dakota was the first mid-size pickup with an...
such as adopting coil springs front and rear, as opposed to all leafsprings on the previous; except for retaining rear leafsprings on high capacity (payload)...
brakes, conventional leafsprings at the rear and wishbone type independent front end. The front end used a single transverse leafspring. In Japan the car...
or spring stilts are special stilts that allow the user to run, jump and perform various acrobatics. Spring stilts using fiberglass leafsprings were...
fiberglass mono-leafspring combined with struts in the rear. The "generation 1.5" W-body models had updated rear suspensions that used coil springs instead of...
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