A front suspension for a front drive vehicle having lower and upper wishbones and a damping support device including a hydraulic jack and a coaxial coil spring. The lower part of the hydraulic jack is connected to the transverse support arm of the lower wishbone through a yoke whereby the hydraulic device straddles the transmission shaft of the vehicle. The pivot centers of the rear arm of the lower wishbone are on a line perpendicular to the wheel plane and the pivot centers of the steering lin...

A front jaw for a ski binding having a base plate fixedly secured to the ski and on which two pivot axes are positioned which are perpendicular with respect thereto. A two-arm lever is pivotally supported on each of the pivot axes and one arm thereof is adapted to move into and out of engagement with the toe of the ski boot. The other arm of each two-arm lever cooperates with a pull rod resiliently urged to the initial position by an adjustable spring operated mechanism to resiliently hold the t...

A front derailleur for a bicycle, which is used to switch a driving chain to each of at least two sprockets, is provided with a fixing member, a chain guide and an adjuster provided between the fixing member and chain guide. The chain guide is supported with respect to the fixing member in relation of being movable axially of the sprockets and toward at least two positions corresponding to the sprockets respectively, and the adjuster is capable of desirably adjusting the chain guide in its posit...

A fireplace front and method of making a fireplace front for closing a forward opening in a fire chamber, including: upper and lower sets of front and rear tracks, a pair of transparent, imperforate doors and a pair of perforate screen doors mounted on the front and rear tracks, respectively, for individual sliding movement between closed positions, in which they cover the opening and retracted positions. Enclosed pockets or wells are fixed to the tracks at opposite sides of the opening for rece...

A front derailleur for a bicycle, which is used for switching a driving chain to at least two sprockets provided at a crank, comprises a fitting member fixed to the bicycle frame extending substantially vertically of the bicycle body, a speed-change mechanism having a chain guide and connected to the fitting member, a first adjusting device for adjusting the chain guide in its position with respect to each of the sprockets in radial direction thereof, a second adjusting device for adjusting an a...

A front axle and the method of making same wherein the axle includes a central portion with a square cross section and wing end portions extending upwardly and outwardly from the central portion and having changing cross sections which change from the square cross section adjacent the central portion to a wing cross section having two elongated sides interconnected by two ends, at one of which is arcuate. In one embodiment, the wing cross section is oval and in another embodiment the wing cross ...

A front jaw having two laterally spaced toggle levers which can be swung out against the force of a release spring housed in a housing and through which housing extends a pull rod. In order to cause in this front jaw during a backward twisting fall an initial tension of the release spring and thus a reduction in the work of the swinging-out toggle lever, the invention provides that the two shorter lever arms of the toggle levers are loaded by a release spring acting through a pull rod onto an an...

A front jaw having a housing in which is housed a release spring and through which extends a pull rod acting through an opening in a crosspart onto two toggle levers holding the front end of the sole of the boot. The housing has at its rear end two vertical contact surfaces for a bearing part having a pair of axles thereon for pivotally supporting the two toggle levers. The two toggle levers include structure functioning as a sole down-holding device.

A front derailleur is provided with a first pressing portion having an arc substantially coaxial with the front gears and including a first pressing point where a pressing operation of the chain engaging the small gear is started and a second pressing point where the shifting operation of the chain mounting the intermediate gear is completed when the chain is shifted from the small gear to the intermediate gear. The derailleur is further provided with a second pressing portion positioned radiall...

A front jaw which includes a housing adapted to be fastened to a ski. A release spring is housed in the housing. A spring extends through a pull rod loaded by the release spring. The pull rod acts through a release plate onto the shorter lever arms of two toggle levers pivotally arranged about vertical axes on a bearing part, and the longer lever arms of which are constructed as sole holders for a ski shoe. The bearing part has a through opening for the pull rod and a front facing support surfac...