Stabilizer for steerable wheels of a vehicle

Claim 1

In a stabilizer for the steerable wheels of a vehicle, the vehicle having a suspension system with a spindle assembly upon which a steerable wheel is mounted, the stabilizer including anchor means fixed to the suspension system, hook means effectively fixed to the spindle assembly, and spring means connected between the anchor means and the hook means to urge the spindle assembly inwardly beneath the vehicle at a level below the spindle, the improvement therein including a plate member for connection to the spindle assembly and for extending below the spindle assembly and defining an opening therein below the spindle assembly, and a pair of similar hook members each formed from a length of metal of approximately hemi-cylindrical cross section and bent at one end to form an approximately circular bend defining an opening with the flat surface of the length of metal facing one side of the circular bend, and the other end portion of said length of metal extending away from the center portion of said opening with its flat surface is approximately the same plane as the flat surface of the circular bend, and the distal end of said other end portion angled away from the flat surface of said circular bend to form an anchoring bend, whereby the anchoring bends of the pair of hook members are placed with their flat surfaces in abutment and are inserted through the opening in the platE and the hook members are urged on into the opening by moving the flat surfaces of the hook members together and spreading the anchoring bends apart, and the spring means is connected to the circular bends.