volute spring

Vertical volute spring suspension is a type of vehicle suspension.

Front suspension was leaf spring, tracks by vertical volute spring.

Many components were common or used a similar design, including the vertical volute spring suspension which would be used in later tanks as well.

It had bogie suspension for the wheels and vertical volute springs for the tracks.

The suspension consisted of a leaf spring for the wheels, while the front tread had vertical volute springs.

They are connected to the torsion bars on swing arms, whose deflection is limited by volute springs.

The suspension was leaf spring on the front axle and vertical volute spring for the tracks.

A volute spring is a compression spring in the form of a cone (a volute).

These included rubber-bushed tracks, rear mounted radial engines and the vertical volute spring suspension.

The first prototype to be ready, thus named the NC1, had a different suspension system, with twelve wheels and three large vertical volute springs per side.

This type of suspension involved springing the pair of dual road wheels on each bogie against each other with a volute spring.

He engaged in manufacturing and is credited with inventing the spiral steel car spring and the corrugated volute spring.

When the horizontal volute springs were placed in compression by either the front or rear bogie wheel arm, the load was transmitted to the opposite arm.

The valve springs used on LeBlond's and Ken-Royce engines are of the volute spring type which is wound in a beehive shape out of strip steel.

A volute spring is a compression spring in the form of a cone, designed so that under compression the coils are not forced against each other, thus permitting longer travel.

Its suspension consisted of semi-elliptical longitudal leaf springs for the wheels and vertical volute springs for the tracks, while its transmission consisted of constant mesh.

After mid-1944, M4A3 models of the Sherman adopted a newly developed Horizontal Volute Spring Suspension (HVSS).

Compared to the vertical volute spring suspension which it replaced on the US M4 Sherman, HVSS was heavier, stronger, allowed the changing of individual wheels, and increased wheel travel.

The Sherman's reliability resulted from many features developed for U.S. light tanks during the 1930s, including vertical volute spring suspension, rubber-bushed tracks, and a rear-mounted radial engine with drive sprockets in front.

Battle experience showed a relatively short life of the original vertical volute spring suspension (VVSS) of the late models M3s due to the tank's increasing combat weight with larger guns and larger tracks.

In keeping with the high-speed role, the new T5 Combat Car introduced the new vertical volute spring suspension (VVSS) system, which proved clearly superior to the Vickers leaf spring system.

The M4A3 was the first to be factory-produced with the option of the horizontal volute spring suspension (HVSS) system, with wider tracks to distribute weight, and the smooth ride of the HVSS.

The T20 used an early version of the horizontal volute spring suspension (HVSS), another improvement compared to the less robust vertical volute spring suspension (VVSS) of the early versions of the M4.

The bogies, in turn, not having to sustain the engines' weight, were redesigned by taking inspiration from those of the first electrical railway motor cars: they featured journal boxes on the external part of the frame, a main volute spring suspension and an auxiliary one based on the traditional leaf-spring design.