Detector deterring deterioration or breakage of the drive belt of the water pump of the internal combustión engines (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

摘要

Apparatus for detecting the deterioration or breakage of the drive belt of the water pump of internal combustión engines, characterized in that it is constituted by a support plate attached to an appropriate place in the frame of the vehicle and having a cantilevered horizontal arm in whose end is articulated, to oscillate in a vertical plane, a lever having at one end a small wheel designed to rest on the drive belt of the pump and whose opposite end is held by a coil spring to said support plate, way that keeps the wheel at the other end of the lever in permanent contact with the water pump belt when it is in normal operation, the upper front part of said lever being attached by means of a cable or flexible pulling strap to a small lever operating a switch protruding from said support plate, such being the arrangement that when a loosening or a rupture of the drive belt of the pump, the force of the coil spring causes the lever to oscillate and, therefore, the front end thereof that has oscillated acts to deflect the small lever of the switch and thereby send a luminous or acoustic signal appropriate to the place of the vehicle in which it may be perceived by the driver. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)