COMPOSITE SPRINGS

摘要

An assembly of a fibre reinforced composite leaf spring with layers of longitudinally oriented fibres spaced from one another by a core portion of randomly oriented fibres, and a component such as an axle beam, the component being clamped to the spring and located length wise of the spring by a locating member which engages with a formation extending at least partially through the core portion of the spring but which does not interrupt the longitudinal fibres thereof. Interruption of the longitudinally oriented fibres is thus avoided.