Engine mount

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION, A TURBINE ENGINE HAVING A LONGITUDINAL CENTERLINE AND A CENTER OF GRAVITY LINE EXTENDING AT AN ANGLE TO SAID CENTERLINE; AND AN ENGINE MOUNT FOR SO MOUNTING SAID ENGINE ON A FLEXIBLE BASE AS TO AVOID TRANSMISSION TO THE ENGINE OF TWISTING AND BENDING STRESSES INDUCED BY THE FLEXING OF SAID BASE COMPRISING FIRST AND SECOND ASSEMBLIES FOR SUPPORTING SAID ENGINE UPON SAID BASE, THE RESPECTIVE ASSEMBLIES BEING LOCATED AT SPACED POINTS ALONG SAID BASE AND AT THE FORWARD AND REAR ENDS OF SAID TURBINE ENGINE; SAID SECOND ASSEMBLY COMPRISING TRUNNION MOUNT MEANS INCLUDING TWO INDEPENDENT TRUNNIONS FIXED TO OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID ENGINE AND EXTENDING HORIZONTALLY THEREFROM WITH THEIR LONGITUDINAL AXES ALIGNED AND INTERSECTING THE CENTER OF GRAVITY LINE OF SAID ENGINE AND A PAIR OF UPSTANDING, LATERALLY SPACED PILLOW BLOCKS ROTATABLY JOURNALLING SAID TRUNNIONS, SAID FIRST ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A PAIR OF SUBSTANTIALLY INEXTENSIBE LINKS, FIRST NONDEFORMABLE LINKS CONNECTIONS CONNECTING SAID LINKS AT ONE END TO SAID BASE AT LATERALLY SPACED POINTS, AND SECOND NONDEFORMABLE LINK CONNECTIONS CONNECTING THE OPPOSITE ENDS OF SAID LINKS AT LATERALLY SPACED POINTS TO SAID ENGINE, THE RELATIVE DISPOSITION OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND LINK CONNECTIONS BEING SUCH THAT THE LONGITUDINAL AXES OF SAID LINKS INTERSECT SAID CENTER OF GRAVITY LINE, AND SAID CONNECTIONS BEING BALL AND SOCKET CONNECTIONS HAVING THEIR CENTERS LYING IN A COMMON, LATERALLY RELATED PLANE AND DISPOSED IN RELATED PAIRS AT OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID ENGINE TO THEREBY CONSTRAIN THE RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN SAID LINKS AND SAID BASE AND SAID LINKS AND SAID ENGINE TO FREE PIVOTAL MOVEMENT.