1509287 Stud fasteners SOC ANON AUTOMOBILES CITROEN 10 June 1975 [26 June 1974] 24921/75 Heading E2B [Also in Division F2] A motor-vehicle Bowden type throttle cable (Fig. 5), is supported by a guide member 1 formed as a bayonet type spring-loaded assembly 1 which may be readily i.e. quickly attached to a bulkhead wall 2, the spring- loaded assembly 1 additionally serving to absorb excess movement of the cable by an acceleration pedal P when the engine throttle i.e. carburettor control levers L has reached the limit of its opening movement whereby the maximum tensile loading in the cable assembly on full opening of the acceleration pedal P is limited to the spring loading in the quick-fitting cable guide member 1. As shown, the guide member I comprises a hollow cylindrical member 3 having at one end a pair of diametrically positioned dogs 5 against which a flanged collar 8, 9 having similarly positioned dogs 10 is biased by a spring 11, the collar 8, 9 being relatively axially and turnably movable on the member 3. A flanged sleeve 12, 13, also slidably and turnably mounted on the members 3, forms a reaction mounting for the spring 11 and is axially retained on the members 3 by a hairpin clip 14 arranged in transverse slots of the members 3. As shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the guide member 1 may be readily fitted to a hole 6 in the bulkhead wall 2, the dogs 5 and 10 of the members 3 and collars 8, 9 passing through corresponding notches 7 in the hole 6 to the position shown in Fig. 2 at which point the member 3 is turned through 90‹ to the lockingly fitted position in Fig. 3 in which the dogs 5, 10, collars 9 and spring 11 securely retain the guide member 1 on the wall 2, release of the member 1 being simply and quickly effected by reversing the above assembly procedure. The members 3 additionally forms a seating 20, 25 for the cable outer casing, the cable core passing out through a flared opening 16 (Fig. 4). The arrangement is such that excess movement of the pedal P, beyond the point at which the carburettor throttle lever L is fully opened, simply compresses the spring 11 of the guide member 1 to prevent excess load on the throttle cable assembly &c.
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