Suspension override system
CA 1102829 A · Owner: E.B. Eddy Forest Products Ltd. · Inventors: Gladish, Herbert E.
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The present invention provides a system for overriding the prior art automatic levelling system for vehicles riding on fluid suspensions such as air bags. Such systems utilize a link extending between the vehicle axle and a regulating valve whereby the valve is responsive to vertical axle movement to alter the pressurization of the air bags and hence the clearance height between the vehicle bed and the axle. In the present invention the link is replaced by a cylinder and piston actuator which is connected to a master control via a conduit. An incompressible fluid fills the actuator chamber, the conduit and the master control chamber. The master control chamber may be varied in volume to …
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- Granted June 9, 1981. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended June 9, 1998.
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